Who Should Attend?

This session is ideal for anyone interested in social change, healing and new ways of building stronger connections and trust, foster alignment, and/or catalyze collective and distributed action in the service of sustainability, equity and justice.

Why This Matters Now

As we find ourselves swimming in uncharted and unsettling times, we know that we need each other and must work together in new and deeply collaborative ways. And under current conditions, leaders are overwhelmed with concern about their own organizations; their constituencies, staff, and key partners. We are all problem-solving day-to-day and facing many critical decisions related to our own and others’ wellbeing.

How can we move beyond crisis mode to strategically and care-fully build networks that sustain us for the long haul?

At IISC, we use our Collaborative Change Lens of love, power, and networks to support people move through the stages and growing pains of transformation. We help them shift from emergency responses to creating conditions for longer term resilient futures. This includes encouraging individuals and groups to embrace the network mantra, “Do what you do best and connect to the rest.” By strengthening relationships and weaving networks with intention, we can distribute leadership, be more impactful, and create the better world we know is possible.

Come join us for this provocative and interactive webinar to explore strategies to build stronger networks, so you and your community can move through these challenging times with clarity and connection.

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What You'll Learn

• The power of networks - What are they, how do they work, and why should you care?
• What are different network modalities and roles to consider to better navigate these times?
• What are core weaving skills and practices that can help us do and be more with less?

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Facilitators

Curtis Ogden is a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC), where he has worked for two decades supporting social change leaders, organizations and networks as a coach, consultant, facilitator, trainer and network weaver. He has helped to start the Food Solutions New England Network, Vermont Farm to Plate Network, Cancer Free Economy Network, Digital Navigators Network, Diverse Teacher Workforce Coalition, DC Social Justice Transformations Network and supported numerous other local, state-wide, regional, national and international collaborative efforts. In addition to his work at IISC, Curtis is an advisor to The Transformations Community, Rural Communities Rising, FLOW Public Trust for the Great Lakes and the Connecticut River Watershed Partnership. He also writes regularly on the IISC Blog. He lives in the Connecticut River Watershed in Western Massachusetts with his wife, teenage daughters and a flock of laying hens.

nisha purushotham is a queer femme, leadership coach, facilitator, musician, and writer with 30 years of movement building experience as an organizer, researcher, youth worker, and artist in residence. She is the Founder and Principal of Kriya Coaching and Consulting and has worked as an affiliate consultant with IISC since 2017. nisha’s work is informed by the lens of healing justice, an abolitionist vision, and a deep trust in ancestral wisdom, our bodies' intuition, and the natural intelligence of Land. She lives in Lenapehoking in the unceded territory of the Ramapough Munsee Lenape, Mohican, and Schatigoke peoples with her son, a musical gamer who loves anime. nisha is grateful for her collaboration with Curtis Ogden which has deepened her understanding of network weaving for healing and transformative change.
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Choosing your ticket type

1. If you are individual who works in a grassroots organization or are otherwise affiliated with a racial justice group and you are paying for the workshop yourself, please register as Grassroots*
2. If you are individual with a social or public sector organization, please register as Nonprofit.
3. If you are in individual with a grantmaking or philanthropic organization, please register as Foundation.
4. If you are individual with a social venture organization, please register as For-Profit/Social Venture.

*The number of these tickets is limited, so we invite those who are BIPOC, systematically marginalized or excluded, and have the highest level of financial need to register with this ticket type. If this is the only ticket type that works for you and it’s sold out, please sign-up for the waitlist and we’ll contact you if a spot becomes available. 
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