Join us to explore innovative strategies designed to tackle complex challenges in Australia & Canada. Speakers include Meaghan Burkett, Ethical Fields, Kaj Löfgren, Regen Melbourne, Ian Bird, Community Foundations Australia and myself, hosted by @samrye.bsky.social monash.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excited about this one! Exploring systemic investment, place-based capital, community finance and social innovation with some bright minds on 11 March Join us: www.linkedin.com/posts/samrye...

[Latest ✍️] Reflections on the Future of Labs Gatherings Report www.samrye.xyz/the-future-o...

I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

Super proud of my son for his first little entrepreneurial venture using his awesome illustration and creative skills! Get your stickers, tee-shirts or whatever else 👇 www.redbubble.com/people/AshBr...

Yayoi Kusama in Naarm 🔥

3 alternatives to new years resolutions for seeding and steering change in your life/world/organization/community/family, a 🧵

Merry Solstice, Yule, Xmas Eve, Hannukah, or whatever else you might be celebrating at this time of year, wherever you may be 🌄 Having a moment down at the birrarung and catching CFA lolly scramble 🎄🏞️

Top under-played Christmas songs? Go! Stevie Wonder for your playlists open.spotify.com/track/3ckRlR...

Solstice community times last night, celebrating a big year for our wee community group, including $300k grants in the bank for community resilience work 🌿

“Social Innovation and the Journey to Transformation”: A Series in the @ssireview.bsky.social skoll.org/magazine/int... #socinn #socialinnovation

Nice summary from TIPC & Deep Transition Lab: Scaling Experimentation: A Catalyst for Transformative System Change Worth a read 📖 tipconsortium.net/news/engagem...

Did I mention I'm starting to learn clawhammer banjo?! Starting super simple but it's so nice to be playing an instrument again after all these years... jofflowson.com/clawhammer/s...

What does movement-led grantmaking for environmental justice look like in practice? Writers from the Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective, co-created by movement leaders and the Kataly Foundation, share key lessons from four years of work moving $42.9 million to communities:

Moments from a day on the hop 🏞️

The question that is often asked is why individuals & communities have declining trust in government. However, the reverse question – whether governments trust communities, and if not, why not – is far less frequently explored www.crisconsortium.org/trust-flows-... via @danielaldrich.bsky.social

[NEW ✍️] On Systemic Investing Latest deep dive into theory, practice, scenarios and enablers to unlock finance for portfolio-approaches and challenge-led work. www.samrye.xyz/on-systemic-...

Cross posting this exciting looking book launch. Beyond Butterflies - applying lessons from nature, biomimicry thinking and exploring #ectones as a rich space for exploring innovation approaches. Authored by Emch & Leyre, available online now! www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

@lornaprescott.bsky.social 👋

@immykaur.bsky.social 👋

Sharing a little of my #astrophotography adventures. Starting with the classic Orion nebula over Wurundjeri Country 🌌

A growing evidence base shows the importance of social relationships, trust & collective intelligence for enabling change. RI is the web of relationships, shared experiences & collective intelligence that underpin collaboration, problem solving and change making. www.samrye.xyz/on-relationa...

Love this story of urban adaptation from Medellin. The human stories in here really brings the work to life 🌳🌿 reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid...

Cornerstone Indicators - Intuitive indicators of complex value Cornerstone Indicators is a framework and playbook for evaluating holistic, non-linear outcomes. cornerstoneindicators.com #evaluation #impeval #complexity

CityLab X : urban living lab as an engine of systems innovation Nice model 👍🏼 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

‘For deep collaboration, the aspect of ‘being’ is just as important.. the human dynamics, values & mindsets of the people involved, which shape how participants ‘show up’ - very good new @undp.bsky.social blog on creating conditions for multi-scale collaboration www.undp.org/facs/blog/de...

"Most institutions, from philanthropic foundations to political campaigns, struggle to invest in this work. But it is also desperately needed, and can be extremely effective at fostering resilience, unlocking creativity, and building power." An excerpt from 'Relationality' by David Jay:

Interested in the future of social (innovation) labs? 65+ of us gathered in Canada in May 2024 to explore this question. Final report coming soon, but in the meantime, here's a reflection post exploring some themes which emerged for me www.samrye.xyz/future-of-la...

Celebrating a year of volunteering with the Upper Yarra SES crew 🚨

#CitizenFriday times around the fire pit as I learn the banjo and listen to the kookaburra calling at the end of a warm one!

The Future & Other Fictions has something for audiences of all ages and will be a welcome cultural addition to the hot days of Melbourne’s forthcoming summer.

Any folks doing #foresight signal scanning, who have a good workflows for capture, tagging and synthesis? www.linkedin.com/posts/samrye...

@bethsawin.bsky.social so delighted you're on this channel! Great to re-follow you here to keep in touch with your work.

Any community software folks out there? I'm trying to find something in the niche between the 'community forum' (threaded discussions) and the 'knowledge base' (storing and ordering info, files etc). Ideally organisation-neutral (it's a cross-org working group) and not chat based (e.g. slack)

Report: Building local ecosystems for social innovation (OECD) "Both institutional and interpersonal trust emerge as crucial pre-conditions favouring the emergence of social innovation ecosystems." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

@nanznair.bsky.social Naaaaaaaaaanz! 👋

What are the capabilities we need to build and sustain living labs, social innovation labs and ecosystems around them? I had a crack at a capability model www.samrye.xyz/living-labs-...

Got a $300k community energy resilience grant application, and v2 of a chunky Living Labs Report out on a Friday afternoon. Other than sick kids, this feels like a weight off 💪

Whatungarongaro te tangata toitū te whenua // As a person disappears from sight, the land remains #whakatauki

Started a #SocialInnovation & #LivingLabs starter pack for y'all, feel free to share & suggest people! go.bsky.app/TvsdKKH cc @helenafitzgerald.bsky.social @s-mertelt.bsky.social @mikaelseppala.bsky.social @lewismuirhead.bsky.social

🌱 Check my new article: "Impacting the Future: Ecosystem Orchestration"! Learn how long-termism & collaboration can drive sustainable impact. Read more: urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:a... #Ecosystems #Innovation #FutureThinking #Sustainability #systemschange

Is there a social innovation starter pack list? What about living labs too?

7 stories of system orchestration, collaborative funding, government partnerships, mission-aligned investing, reimagined storytelling, and evaluation and learning skoll.org/magazine/int...

[Latest ✍️] Ecotone Organising - a promising approach for fostering collective action on complex challenges. By creating spaces that are independent of existing organizational structures, we can cultivate hybrid cultures, shared capabilities & flexible governance. www.samrye.xyz/exploring-ec...

@sandyswan.bsky.social oh hai, nice to see you here #2007returns

TOITŪ TE TIRITI!

Happy place: Aotearoa amongst the trees 🌳