These posts focus on prioritising human connection, trust, and authentic relationships as central to all interactions in community building and system change. It promotes relational ways of working that move beyond transactional relationships and recognise all interactions as a many-to-many system.
Key elements include open communication, building psychological safety where people feel comfortable to express themselves without fear, and fostering humility and curiosity to welcome diverse perspectives and overcome traditional hierarchies.
Journal
Collaboration, systems change and relational working
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Learnings around Governance
by Matilde Zadig Subgroups - local and small operational decisions Subgroups should be empowered and trusted to make the decisions they see fit, as long as this serves the purpose and fits within the...
By Belong in Plymouth
Learnings Around Decision Making
by Matilde Zadig Emergence Changes are integral to emergence. The balance between policies/systems and everyday decisions can easily become a challenge. In BIP, the people involved, the group or organ...
By Belong in Plymouth
How Do We Make Decisions Differently (Better) – and Keep Practising?
by Matilde Zadig I want to start with an expression of gratitude and acknowledgement for some of the people who have profoundly contributed to my understanding of Flow and internal systems within a gr...
By Belong in Plymouth
The Dance with Uncertainty
by Matilde Zadig We worked with a lot of uncertainty in Belong in Plymouth. We probably all knew it wasn’t going to be a linear or a super straightforward process, but nevertheless, uncertainty and c...
By Belong in Plymouth
How to Practice Money Piles
Conditions that support money piles: – Enough of a level of psychological and material safety for the people participating to share their stories and needs with vulnerability and honesty – A contain...
By Belong in Plymouth
Money Piles: Finances are Relational
by Matilde Zadig Money Piles have come to me through Dominic Barter (sometimes also called Financial Co-responsibility) and Miki Kashtan*. I’ve practiced them regularly in one of my intentional house...
By Belong in Plymouth
Social change and personal transformation go hand in hand
When we step into “different”, more emergent ways of working and being, there is a process we are stepping into ourselves as individuals as well. This process is an ongoing practice that inevitably wi...
By Matilde Zadig
One cause of Difficult Conversations
A key shift in moving towards more relational practice, referred to in threads running through many of these blog pieces, is building trust and a shared sense of psychological safety. One early way of...
By Martyn Lowesmith
Storytelling
Do you remember what your favourite book was as a child? Or perhaps your current favourite film or TV programme? My favourite book, as a child, was Alice in Wonderland. A well-read, well-worn book th...
By Martyn Lowesmith
A perspective on System Change
Currently, a phrase very ‘of the moment’ – highly desirable to get engaged in…and a complex concept with varying degrees of success…yet, perhaps, a victim of its own popularity? As with many popular c...
By Martyn Lowesmith
The Art and Craft of Listening
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply” - Stephen Covey. As a world, we focus more on how to speak than how to listen. It happens all around us....
By Martyn Lowesmith
Who else did we speak to in 2023?
63 people shared who they connect to the most in their work, representing a snapshot of connected life in Plymouth. https://wordart.com/5z5h5h8wx5m9/plymouth-network We shared considerable frustrat...
By Karen Pilkington