Transforming how we gather, talk, work & govern
I am working with several arts and community initiatives and groups to help them think through new ways of governing that reflect better ways of working and of being together, and are better readied to be accountable to climate, racial, social, economic and spatial justice.
Its deep work and each conversation and set of actions is necessarily bespoke to each situation – but there are a number of starting points that I bring to each table. I am asked about these so often, its worth a share here – thus, in no particular order:
Act Build Change – A learning community for changemakers with a mission to make community organising accessible to all and build a network of leaders committed to justice.
What We Do Now (WWDN) – Emanating from the arts-led community work of The Stove Network, WWDN is a creative placemaking network that supports partnerships between artists and community organisations across Dumfries & Galloway, co-creating with communities to develop new projects, local plans, training, and enterprise.
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters – Priya Parker sets forth a human-centred approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.
Heart of Glass – A St Helens, Merseyside-based collaborative and social arts agency with some of the deepest collaborative governance models.
In-Situ – Based in Pendle, in-situ works in an embedded way, through the formation of long-term relationships and dialogue.
Rising Arts Agency – The most genuinely youth-led creative agency, modelling new forms of arts leadership and governance.
Community Benefit Societies – Community benefit societies reflect commitment to the wider community, with profits being invested back into the business.
Grassroots Grantmaking: Embedding Participatory Approaches –
Sociocracy - A theory of governance that seeks to create psychologically safe environments and productive organisations.
Nudge – Plymouth-based hyperlocal arts organisation on a mission is to nudge lasting change in surprising and enterprising ways to build a strong local community and economy.
Corporate Rebels - a platform dedicated to exploring and sharing the most innovative and forward-thinking approaches to work.
Lexxic – neurodiversity in the workplace specialists.
Civic Square - A bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future.
Liberating Structures - an alternative way to approach and design how people work together.
Inhabit - Book, an online portal, and an IRL network for climate and ecological breakdown justice.
Systemic Justice - Community-driven litigation for racial, social, and economic justice.
OpenEdge – Working to decolonise and grow transformative, interdependent cultures, developing dynamic, inclusive ways of co-existing and walking towards challenge together.
Healing Justice London - Building community-led health and healing to create capacity for personal and structural transformation.
Out Of The Spiritual Closet: Organisers Transforming the Practice of Social Justice.
“I do not think good governance is depressing, it is one of the most electrifying and exciting things on the planet” – David Jubb
Radical HR – Working to create radical, anti-oppressive approaches to HR and operations.
Strike A Light – Gloucester-based arts charity working to change charity leadership and governance.
Be-Part Network - a 4-year project initiated by a network of 10 EU and non-EU partners that critically explores the politics and practices of participation in the arts field.