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Stewarding Loss

·Mar 20

With The End In Mind*: Building the infrastructure for better endings in civil society

In the second of a series of three blogs, the team behind Stewarding Loss (Louise Armstrong, Cassie Robinson and Iona Lawrence) share a list of all the things needed to create a vibrant ecosystem for better endings in civil society. *ref: Kathryn Mannix Previously: Deep within all of us working…

Infrastructure

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Infrastructure

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Constellating Change: exploring patterns of organising

·Feb 19

Transformational Governance: an ever evolving journey

At the end of last year I stepped back from the Transformational Governance Stewarding Group after the best part of 2.5 years. …

Governance

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Transformational Governance: an ever evolving journey
Transformational Governance: an ever evolving journey
Governance

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Leaving well

·Feb 9

A manual to leaving well?

There’s a fine line between endings and new beginnings — by Louise Armstrong and Nour Sidawi If you’ve ever struggled with having a thoughtful ending — of transitioning from one thing to another — this blog post is for you. This blog post isn’t written to give advice so much as it is to comfort and console and to lift…

Leaving Well

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A manual to leaving well?
A manual to leaving well?
Leaving Well

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Jan 11

An acupuncturist in the funding ecosystem

Reflections and shifts in my role within the funding ecosystem After 10+ years of change making work — a recurring theme about where and how resources flow has persisted for me. I felt compelled to do this work as I really believe that the resources need to flow to the…

Role

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An acupuncturist in the funding ecosystem
An acupuncturist in the funding ecosystem
Role

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Jan 11

7 Insight and lessons from working across the funding ecosystem

And what that means for me in 2023 Funding organisations have a critical role as catalysts for the big changes needed in this time. Which means paying attention to how funds are distributed and how funding organisations work matters. …

Philnthropy

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7 Insight and lessons from working across the funding ecosystem
7 Insight and lessons from working across the funding ecosystem
Philnthropy

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Constellating Change: exploring patterns of organising

·Dec 19, 2022

Constellating change: a real time inquiry

This is a piece that documents stages in a relational inquiry journey — in near time reflections on a real time / live inquiry. …

Constellating Change

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Constellating change: a real time inquiry
Constellating change: a real time inquiry
Constellating Change

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Dec 10, 2022

Sprawling roles and identities of community change makers

Lessons and reflections from 8 years of working on the Peckham Coal Line — Community work doesn’t neatly fit into boxes of well defined job descriptions that you might have as part of formal roles. Its influence spans the very intimate personal and professional and everything in between. I’ve been charting some of the many identities roles I’ve been doing in the work I…

Community Leadership

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Sprawling roles and identities of community change makers
Sprawling roles and identities of community change makers
Community Leadership

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Dec 3, 2022

Stretching the boundaries of appraisal processes

Experiments with a collective appraisal process — Note: this blog has been in my drafts for 6 years, originally written in 2016! …

Appraisal

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Appraisal

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Dec 3, 2022

Experiments in writing

Writing as changemakers — I’ve had surprising urges to write over the last 2 years. But i’ve learnt that making time and space for writing is so hard and counter cultural for us as change makers who aren’t professional writers. I know I’m not alone as a change maker wanting more space to write…

Writing

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Experiments in writing
Experiments in writing
Writing

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Stewarding Loss

·Oct 24, 2022

Endings as the overlooked stage of transformation

This is the written transcript of a speech I gave at the New frontiers in funding, philanthropy and investment event and the Innovation in Philanthropic Practice panel in July 2022. …

Endings

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Endings as the overlooked stage of transformation
Endings as the overlooked stage of transformation
Endings

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