Melissa Darnell
5 Design Principles for a New Normal From Donella Meadows
Presented in partnership with Marta Ceroni from The Donella Meadows Project at the Academy for Systems Change. At a time so deeply...
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Melissa Darnell
May 13, 2020
Systems Innovation Panel Discussion
A virtual panel discussion on "Social Labs and Collaborative Approaches to Systems Change" with Russ Gaskin of CoCreative, Stephanie...
CoCreative
May 12, 2020
The Benefits of Fear, Conflict, Failure, & Resistance
If you're leading systems change work, you will no doubt experience fear, conflict, resistance, and even failure at some point along your...
CoCreative
Apr 7, 2020
Virtual Meetings for Clarity and Momentum
Moving your meetings and convenings online? We often assume that online meetings mean disengagement and boredom but some of our most...
Melissa Darnell
Mar 24, 2020
4 Elements of Use of Self
Ever heard of "use of self"? It's the idea that we can use ourselves as powerful instruments of change in service of a greater good. But...
CoCreative
Mar 24, 2020
Designing Virtual Meetings for Clarity and Momentum: A Case Study with Mosaic
A story-based case study on effective virtual collaboration.
Melissa Darnell
Feb 26, 2020
Designing a Powerful Shared Intent
A clear and powerful shared intent is key to the success of any collaboration. In this session, Russ Gaskin and Sharon Simms explored how...
CoCreative
Jan 7, 2020
Four Agendas for Leading Multi-stakeholder Collaboration
Collaborative Innovation is our process model and an integrated set of concrete tools to effectively lead powerful change with...
CoCreative
Nov 25, 2019
Leveraging the 5 Critical Design Tensions In Collaborative Innovation
Do you wish you had a way to transform stuck-ness and confusion into innovation and engagement? How can you help people "see together" so...
CoCreative
May 23, 2019
Collaborative Impact & Systems Change
This session archive is from Ashoka's Series on New Leadership and was recorded in May, 2019.
Russ Gaskin
Apr 2, 2018
It's Not Collaboration as Usual...
We don't strive to be different in our approach to collaboration, yet people are often surprised by the seemingly counterintuitive...
CoCreative
May 12, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #1: Diverging & Converging
Have you ever been sitting in a meeting and you think that the group is really starting to realize something that they hadn’t understood...
CoCreative
May 11, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #2: Checking Back
Checking Back is about occasionally returning to "upstream" parts of our work to ensure that our current activities are aligned with our...
CoCreative
May 10, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #3: Leveraging Tensions
Creative Tensions are natural features of collaboration. They appear anytime people try to work together—and the more complex and...
CoCreative
May 6, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #5: The Design Process
Innovation is often perceived as a neat and orderly process, but it’s actually messy and unpredictable, and the desire for it to be...
CoCreative
May 5, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #6: Working Concurrently
People often assume that work needs to happen in a linear, sequential way or that everyone needs have a say in all parts of the work....
CoCreative
May 4, 2017
Collaboration Pattern #4: Spiraling
We spiral all the time at CoCreative. No, that doesn’t mean we’re losing it, or that we're stressed out. It means we are constantly...
CoCreative
Apr 13, 2017
Polarity Thinking Keynote Address
We turn difficult underlying tensions and conflict into resources for deep collaboration and innovation. Watch this keynote at the 2012...
CoCreative
Mar 19, 2017
A New Roadmap for Collaboration
[Here for the Roadmap? Download it here.] On a rainy spring day last April, I was sitting at my desk having an intense phone conversation...
Russ Gaskin
Mar 19, 2017
The Elephant of Complex Systems Change
Updated March 12, 2023 People often ask how I came to do the work that I do today. I usually say, “I had no plan. I just wanted to learn...