Portfolio Sensemaking Portfolio approaches to change: emerging patterns & resources This post focuses on the recent advancements in a 'portfolio' approach to change work which is happening across multiple organisations, and is an interesting signal in a move away from planning-based approaches.
Systems Change Fieldnotes: Communicating Systems Strategy This post focuses on developing some good practice patterns for communicating systems change work. I have a particular interest in systems change strategies, which may be early stage or representing organisations in transition to working more systemically.
Learning In Networks Learning Change: in conversation with Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Amanda Tattersall Announcing the "Learning Change: adaptive social learning for transition times" series with Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta, Amanda Tattersall and Sam Rye.
Conservation Horizon Scan: Emerging tech for nature conservation in the Yarra Valley Scanning the landscape for existing and emerging technology which could be effectively utilised for a nature restoration and conservation project.
COVID-19 New Practice: Community Engagement for Environmental Action in a COVID-19 era Around the world, groups and organisations are scrambling to reinvent how we enable and/or do environmental conservation work during these large scale societal lockdowns.
Climate Adaptation Climate Adaptation in the Yarra Ranges: Home Scale Climate resilience and adaptation needs to be enabled, developed and nurtured at all levels of our society, with collective strategies vital to supporting a systemic transformation to move us towards a doughnut society.
Futures Participatory Futures in the age of COVID-19 This article is a summary of a rather boisterous twitter thread which invited examples of participatory futures & collective visioning, for a COVID-19 era of social distancing.
Collaboration Cafe Resource: Collaboration Cafe - Open Source A Facilitator's Workshop Guide for supporting people to work together. Back in 2012 I got together with some friends from Enspiral to develop a monthly event to get people working
Disaster Response Recover This post is my early explorations of Australian Bushfire Recovery with Conservation Volunteers Australia. We are coordinating a nationwide environmental volunteering response for bushfire recovery.
Climate Adaptation Exploring Climate Adaptation in the Yarra Ranges As the patterns build, I slowly allow myself to admit a rising terror about the changing climate here in Australia. All image rights are Bureau of MeterologyBased on preliminary analysis,
Complexity Fieldnotes - Towards Complexity 101 Why are systems thinking and complexity so... complex? In this post I share one activity and 6 resources to help you to be more comfortable in the complexity of our world.
Platform Design Paying Attention to Signals This is a fieldnote which attempts to articulate four ingredients which are mixing around in my head, all converging to inform the development of a platform to support environmental conservation groups.
Conservation Ending Well Volunteer Impact is closing down after 6 years of exploring through entrepreneurial and academic paths, and being reborn with Conservation Volunteers.
Experimentation Free Resource: Experimentation Field Guide I'm delighted to announce the release of the Field Guide to Experimentation which I developed for Monash University's School of Art Design & Architecture (MADA). Read the Experimentation Field Guide
Strategic Design What is Strategic Design practice? Strategic Design practice is made up of a wide range of activities, methods and tools, and is much less well articulated than the likes of Service Design. This post draws
Environment Return to the Fray At the turn of the year I felt a strong call to return to work on biodiversity & climate. I'm delighted to say that at the end of the month,
Towards Targeted Systems Change Modelling and communicating how to shift systems As I’ve written about in the recent past, I focused my recently completed Masters of Design focused on a domain I’m
Philanthropy Learnings about Environmental Philanthropy Recently I’ve been looking into finding a new home for my skills and experience. One of the organisations I've been speaking to is a leader in the philanthropy sector in Australia.
Design Exploring Regenerative Design Methods I was recently invited to work with Swinburne University’s Masters of Design Strategy & Innovation students, to deliver a participatory toolkit session using organic materials to scaffold their reflection on Design Leadership research thus far.
Articles Farewell Medium? I'm breaking up with Medium. Since 2013, I've been primarily writing on Medium.com. Since that time, Medium has changed. Lately, it's done the path I really hoped it wouldn't - encouraging people to paywall their writing.
Complexity On Scaling Impact We run our Pilot, and then if it works, we scale it up. Yet, all too often the ‘scaled up’ version doesn’t have the same effect as the pilot. Why is this? In a word: complexity.
Field Notes End of 2018 Reflections: Perspectives on Systems Change, Strategic Design, and Seasonality This post focuses on some professional and personal reflections from 2018, spanning my Masters, Consulting, and more. In it, I touch on systems change, experimentation, strategy, seasonality and nature.
Program Design On Sustaining Impact This article is a plea to stop pouring so much resource into solely “getting ideas started” and then making them pitch for funding.
Strategic Design Design as Strategy? Exploring the landscape of emerging Strategic Design practiceAs I’ve journeyed deeper into my Masters of Design, I’ve explored a vast landscape of practice which focuses on how to
Entrepreneurship 57+ Tools to help create your first website, product or service Awhile ago Anna Guenther, the excellent Chief Bubble Blower of Kiwi crowdfunding site PledgeMe, tweeted a shout out for tools to build a first product/app/website. This is the redux of my popular 'My Startup Stack' post.
