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A year in the life… report back from the rhizosphere
Rhizome’s a year old! We did our first work in February 2010, and formally incorporated as a co-op in March that year. At the time we took the decision that rather than write policies detailing our ethics and standards we’d … Continue reading
Posted in Transparency
Tagged annual report, Calverts, report back, Rhizome, Stig, Triodos, WordPress
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“Take me to your leader!”
I’ve had leadership on the mind this week, mainly due to spending some time writing a proposal for some work developing a youth leadership programme for young people involved in the Woodcraft Folk. For some leadership is a dirty word. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism
Tagged Activism, co-operation, community activism, facilitator as leader, leadership, non-hierarchical groups, Rhizome
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Rhizome: spreading the word
Rhizome’s still fairly new and there are plenty of organisations and networks out there that haven’t heard about us. We’d appreciate your help to change that. We’ve finally got round to producing some publicity materials – a series of 8 … Continue reading
Studying direct action at the university of life…
I find myself in two minds about the student protest. On the one hand I’m relieved that there’s some resistance and that it’s (at least for now) sizeable. In recent months and years we’ve missed so many opportunities for making … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Strategy
Tagged Activism, community activism, grassroots change, nonviolent direct action, Rhizome, So We Stand, student protest
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Consensus: the deep end
13 participants and 4 facilitators, including myself, gathered in Oxford this weekend for Consensus: in at the deep end a full weekend workshop to explore consensus decision-making in more depth than consensus training usually allows. Of course consensus is a … Continue reading
Posted in Consensus, Events, Facilitation
Tagged consensus decision making, facilitation, group agreement, margins and mainstream, Open Space, Rhizome
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Consensus: in at the deep end
Upcoming workshop: 8th-10th October 2010 Plunge into a deeper exploration of consensus and facilitation in activist movements – whether in small or large groups, networks, open or closed groups. This weekend is for people with experience of facilitating consensus who … Continue reading
Building the capacity builders
For us the key message is that people need to be involved in their own learning. As facilitators we need to bite the bullet and accept that it takes more time, but participation gets better results….
We facilitators can be as guilty as anyone of stereotyping people as ‘difficult’. We write them off and try to either ignore them or marginalise them so they cause as little disruption as possible. But if we take the time to think about what’s going on then we can see that the problem often lies with us, or with the group as a whole.
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Why Rhizome?
At Rhizome we believe in making change in the world. Specifically we believe in ordinary people and communities taking control of their lives, environment, and destinies. Change from the grassroots up is powerful and sustainable because it’s rooted in a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Activism, co-operative, community, facilitation, grassroots change, participation, Rhizome, right livelihood
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