Movement Building

‘A Movement Like We’ve Never Known’

We believe we need to find ways to organise collective power at a level that we’ve not known in this part of the world for generations - and to focus it in strategically wise and effective ways, in order to transform the systems that are devastating life on earth. 

In 2023, we laid out our perspectives on the need for a different scale of movement building, the challenges that movements for change face and what we believe could lead us through those challenges. You can listen to the recording here - and read accompanying notes sharing our influences here. 

Our Strategy for Movement Building has four elements: 

  • Movement-wide decision making processes to develop coordinated strategy and effective ways of collaboration.

    We want to establish a legitimate, effective, decision making structure for developing powerful strategy and mechanisms for collaboration. We’re envisioning something that has diverse participation, careful process, and is therefore trusted to integrate different perspectives, and make decisions that we can throw our collective weight behind.

  • Supporting conflict to be a source of learning and growth, rather than fragmentation and challenge.

    We know that conflict and mistrust in what might broadly be called ‘The Left’ is severely limiting our capacity to make the change we need. We want to provide support and set clear pathways for listening to the wisdom in conflicts, and using them as opportunities to learn, upgrade our ways of working, and transform relational challenges into greater connection.

  • Residential trainings that support people to unleash themselves

    We want to give people the support to shift debilitating dynamics and provide leadership in weaving connection, inspiration, and empowerment in social movements and beyond, so we can bring ourselves much more fully to creating the world we want and need.

  • Training and supporting a Flock of Facilitators

    We want to train and work with a Flock of Facilitators - or Skein - that can respond effectively to conflicts, challenges, difficult decisions, or other facilitation needs at scale - all within a context of ongoing connection to each other, learning, peer-support, financial resourcing and mentoring. We believe that the kind of movement we’re dreaming of will need far greater facilitation capacity than we currently have - and the ability to coordinate this.