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
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
10th Conversation @ April 19, 2018 || Video & Audio
In San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), Part 2
9th Conversation @ April 18, 2018 || Video & Audio
Reconnecting from San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), Part 1
8th Conversation @ March 5, 2018 || Video & Audio
Focus on the lowest versus highest common denominator (Adrian co-hosting)
7th Conversation @ February 27, 2018 || Audio
Focus on "Collaborative Networks" white paper (Ruth co-hosting)
6th Conversation @ January 25, 2018 || Video & Audio
5th Conversation @ January 22, 2018 || Video & Audio
4th Conversation @ October 30, 2017 || Video & Audio
During the 4th PICNIC session, we began to build this specification of collaboration...
...and this specification of network, clarifying what they are and what they are not.
3rd Conversation @ October 24, 2017 || 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
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.