Catalyzing the power of collaboration to grow personal, group, and community potential. Restoring bonds of kinship so communities can heal, create, and learn.
New England, USA
Joined March 2011
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Beth Tener retweeted
Most large conferences & "all staff" days treat their audience as "consumers" to be talked at when they have a room full of potential co-creators with amazing talents and gifts. Is it possible to design large gatherings in a more relational way? How can we light candles rather than fill buckets? @pforti suggests 5 ways:
1) Small sessions lead by participants
2) Create fractal groups
3) Slow down the rhythm of the meeting
4) Assign people to be connectors
5) Design for the non-default
medium.com/together-institut…. Quote in graphic: @ndcollaborative
Beth Tener retweeted
We are delighted to share a new #podcast hosted by @ndcollaborative, longtime @GRTLeadership friend and partner. “Living Love” is all about how healthy communities and relationships can bring out the best in people and change destructive patterns. ❤️🩹
Beth Tener retweeted
What a joy to explore kinship and other deep nuances of facilitation with Beth Tener, @ndcollaborative, in this month's Human to Human Podcast. Enjoy. humantohuman.podbean.com/e/b…
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I loved this podcast conversation on how to heal communities deeply divided, invite & encourage people's #leadership especially women, and allow people to find answers themselves. Libby Hoffman of @CatalystforPeace kinshiphub.net/activating-th…
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A powerful new visual of the famous Desmond Tutu quote, created by @Juliet_Young1: ‘We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. Some of us need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in’.
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I love this 👇
When people ask me what I mean about wanting mutual aid a lot more than I want more self-care, this is (part of) what I mean:
ALT Screenshot of a Tumblr post by QueerSpacePunk reading: i want to be asked to come over and help put my friend's kids to bed as casually as they might text their spouse and ask them to pick up milk on the way home i want to stop and pick up milk for another friend because i know their spouse hates the grocery store i want to buy fruit that i dont like because it's on special and i know people who do i want to pass lemons over the fence and to take my neighbours bins out when the forget i want group chats instead of rideshare apps, calls in the middle of the night because someone's at the hospital, lonely or hungry or both iwant to do the dishes in other people's houses, extra servings wrapped in tinfoil and tea towels so it's still warm when you drop it off, a basket of other people's mending by my couch i want to be surrounded by reminders that ‘imposing' on each other is what we were born to do
Beth Tener retweeted
The high-froth sensationalism that increases makes media "sellable" is purposely context-less. Removal of context=increase of controversy=compelling. This is an effective method of fueling polarisation & pitting people against each other who might otherwise be inclined to unite.
Beth Tener retweeted
We're hiring for a new role: Director, Initiative on Racial Wealth Equity.
The Director will work across Barr and with community leaders to support and guide our new Racial Wealth Equity initiative.
Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3cfFNVR
#nowhiring #nonprofitjobs
Beth Tener retweeted
This brief reported exchange with a woman who compares her two children has stayed with me since I first read it: ow.ly/oPjF2
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As continuous #learners, we’re always asking questions. 🤓 Knowing exactly what questions to ask and how to structure them is key for effective #team #development and getting the most out of a learning opportunity.
Beth Tener retweeted
It's great to have some face to face & hybrid workshops & learning sessions again. But we must do them in a different way. We should light candles: create opportunities for people to discuss, share & learn together, not fill buckets: talk at people for hours. Tx @ndcollaborative
Beth Tener retweeted
Early on in the Covid pandemic, there were lots of articles about how the 1918 flu disappeared from our collective memory and the historical record. Alfred Crosby famously called it "America's Forgotten Pandemic" in his 1989 book.
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Beth Tener retweeted
5 Spaces that leaders need to design and nurture:
1. Space for employee voices
2. Space for the informal organization
3. Space for thinking and reflecting
4. Space for professional and personal development
5. Space for experimentation with ideas
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Beth Tener retweeted
This whole thread is packed with great info on how the #GeoGrid makes a #renewableenergy future possible, transforms gas #utilities into thermal utilities, and moves skilled gas workers into #greenjobs. Thanks @drvolts for the awesome interview!
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Many of us think about doing things differently. Lots of us talk about it. Paul Farmer just went out and did global health differently, however imperfectly, and learned, and did, and the world was not the same. There's a long way to go. Wishing you rest, Paul. We keep going.
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Beth Tener retweeted
I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"
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Today, the incoming AG fired, among many others, the entire Conviction Integrity Unit. With no notice. I found out at 10am. Two of my colleagues found out at 4pm. I’m so sorry to all the people we didn’t get to help.
Beth Tener retweeted
It’s amazing what we can do when we rethink how we use some of the space we devote to moving and storing cars.
📍 Millennium Park, Chicago – at Boston, MA
