Reframing Community Engagement: From Asking to Acting

Reframing Community Engagement: From Asking to Acting

Traditional community engagement often falls into a predictable pattern: organizations repeatedly ask marginalized communities about their needs, but struggle to create meaningful change based on those responses. Personally, I have heard multiple conversations where...
Mapping the Ecosystem: Start With Simple Loops

Mapping the Ecosystem: Start With Simple Loops

In the last blog post, we identified the elements of a system. We begin to think about the interrelationships between the elements and begin building “loops.” Loops are like chain reactions. One chain link leads to another link and eventually the chain circles back...
System elements and their interconnectedness

System elements and their interconnectedness

When our consultants introduce systems thinking one of the favorite videos we share is How Wolves Change Rivers. Take a minute and notice the elements of Yellowstone Park’s ecosystem. Trees, forests, birds, deer, beaver, otters, ducks, coyotes, rabbits, hawks, ravens,...