PICNIC

Here you can find:

• the on-going work in the GOOGLEDOC
• white papers
• related posts
• recordings of the Zoom conversations
• list of Fellows participating in the PICNIC Advanced Reflection Group
• framing of the questions in the PICNIC Advanced Reflection Group

GOOGLEDOC on-going documentation of PICNIC Advanced Reflection Group

• to edit, hover over document, in the upper-right corner you have an option to open and work with the document

WHITE PAPERS

• What Groups Organizing As Collaborative Network for Systems Change Do -- 04 March 2019 -- Ruth Rominger, Jim RD, Ana Claudia Goncalves
• Collaborative Network Dynamics: What role do denominators play? (PDF or GoogleDoc versions) -- 19 February 2019 -- by Adrian Joyce
• Systems Change and Understanding -- 9 May 2018 -- by Annabel M, Ruth R, Jim RD
  • Systemic Understanding for Systems Change -- 21 February 2019 -- Ruth R edited for lay audience
• Strategic SCAN Due Diligence Protocol -- 9 May 2018 -- by Jim RD, Ruth R, Annabel M
• Collaborative Networks -- 29 January 2018 -- by Ruth R, Jim RD
  • Characteristics of Systems-Changing Collaborative Networks -- 21 February 2019 -- Ruth R edited for lay audience

RELATED POSTS

• Blogposts
  • Collaboration Basics: Essential Agreements -- 05 February 2018 -- by Ruth R, Jim RD
  • Strategic Clarity to Accelerate Large-system Evolution (SCALE 1.0) -- 18 September 2017 -- by Jim RD
• Projects
  • YES (Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability) -- Strategic Systems Thinking for Networks
  • BUILD UPON -- Co-hosting Collaboration
  • Cancer Free Economy -- Collaborative Networks
  • RE-AMP -- Collaborative Network (case study and brief discussion)
  • THORLO -- Integrated Conversations
• Collaboration
  • iCo–The Power of Co-hosting
  • Group Work ≠ Collaboration: 2 Ways to Make Dysfunctional Groups
  • You Are Different AND Relevant: That Is Why I Need You
  • Self-Discovery Leadership

RECORDINGS OF ZOOM CONVERSATIONS

(in reverse chronological order, from most recent)

18th Conversation @ May 6, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Exploring Reflections from Belgium

17th Conversation @ April 24, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Exploring Our Experiences with the Strategic SCAN

16th Conversation @ April 22, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Exploring what we see in Strategic SCANs, in Belgium

CHOICE Residential Weekend (Wavre, near Brussels) @ April 18-22, 2019

Notes from Wavre (please comment and improve, GoogleDoc -- Adrian's "sacrificial text," summarizing our exploration)

15th Conversation @ April 20, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Exploring what we mean by "system" and "systems change," in Belgium

14th Conversation @ April 10, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Sharing questions and intentions for our time together in Belgium April 18-22 2019

13th Conversation PART 2 @ March 20, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Exploring white paper "What Groups Organizing as Collaborative Networks for Systems Change Do?" -- co-hosted by Ruth Rominger

13th Conversation PART 1@ March 20, 2019 || Videos & Audios

Exploring white paper "What Groups Organizing as Collaborative Networks for Systems Change Do?" -- co-hosted by Ruth Rominger

12th Conversation @ March 19, 2019 || Video & Audio

Exploring the YggE3 Elements in the Agreements Field Equations -- co-hosted by Annabel Membrillo

11th Conversation @ March 6, 2019 || Video & Audio

Exploring white paper "Collaborative Network Dynamics: What role do denominators play?" -- co-hosted by Adrian Joyce

8th Conversation @ March 5, 2018 || Video & Audio

Focus on the lowest versus highest common denominator (Adrian co-hosting)

6th Conversation @ January 25, 2018 || Video & Audio

5th Conversation @ January 22, 2018 || Video & Audio

ENGAGE is the Rockefeller Foundation site, developed by Monitor, we mentioned today that is a repository of collaborative methods

2nd Conversation @ October 23, 2017 || Video & Audio

DRAFT: Introduction to field guide: "thinking systemically, acting collaboratively" field guide being developed by Ruth and Jen Berman based on GF work.

Link to Omidyar and +Acumen Systems Practice course.

1st Conversation @ October 23, 2017 || Video & Audio

PICNIC FELLOWS

All CHOICE Fellows are invited to participate in all of the Foundational Labs and Advanced Reflection Groups (ARGs). Each Fellow is also specifically connected to 1-2 Labs or ARGs.

• Advanced Reflection Group Fellows
  • James Drinkwater, World Green Building Council
  • Adrian Joyce, European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
  • Ruth Rominger, Garfield Foundation
  • Alex Rossides, Social Impact Exchange
  • Jack Spengler, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard
• Participating Fellows
  • Ana Claudia Goncalves, CHOICE Co-hosting Fellow/Vibrancy/ISC
  • Annabel Membrillo, Vibrancy/ISC
  • Luz Maria Puente, CHOICE Co-hosting Fellow/ISC
  • Jim Ritchie-Dunham, CHOICE Co-hosting Fellow
  • Jim Throneburg, THORLO/Academy for Self-Discovery Leadership

PICNIC (platforms for integration through collaborative networks and integrated conversations)

Advanced Reflection Group

Brief

PICNIC explores, describes, and develops a framework for understanding how to accelerate large-system evolution through the strategic leveraging of platforms that integrate people collaborating towards a deeper shared purpose.

Ecosynomics 1.0 frames the scaling of social impact in terms of a set of agreements that is coherent at the same level of perceived reality across the four lenses of the Agreements Evidence Map. This agreements field coherence provides a continuum of social impact efforts from scarcity-based resource extraction power designed for accumulation to abundance-based tangibilization power designed for collaboration.

The initial work of PICNIC seeks:

• To characterize how people come together to leverage their potential, development, and outcomes towards a deeper purpose, framing how to understand what has been learned in the multitude of social impact and collaborative networks experiments around the globe
• To map collaborative networks using Agreements Evidence Mapping to see what is unique and what is common across these experiments--how people have learned to realize communities of trust and unity in diversity, realizing spaces for collective productive work.
• To determine the process-design maturity of our experiences with platforms for integration, collaborative networks, and integrated collaborative conversations, using the Ecosynomic tools of the HV Move Process, the O Process for Co-hosting Collaboration, ecologies of consciousness, and the design levels of segregating, flocking, and uniting.
• To assess the outcomes and experience of how people come together in these efforts, using the Impact Resilience framework.
• To continuously explore the questions arising in the collaborative networks community.
• To test our emerging understanding in the many experiments PICNIC Fellows are running in their communities.
• To create a common narrative and a common domain of language around terms like collaboration, network, integrated, conversation, platforms.