Anna Birney

Facilitation - the easing of how we come together, create and transform - and how we need to embrace an emergent approach over any design structure. Reflections on how we facilitated the @SystemChangeSch writing retreat. louise-a.medium.com/embracing-emer…

Being an effective change agent isn't just about making change happen. It's also about learning, reflecting & growing our own understanding & capabilities. So I loved "Action inquiry: a learning approach for systems change", a new (free) publication from @SystemChangeSch. It covers: 1) An overview of action inquiry: it comes from the same roots as action research, but it is aimed at change practitioners who seek to build learning into their work as a systemic practice; 2) Framings: ways of thinking that can help shape how we see & interpret information, our own experience & opportunities to change the world; 3) Embodying action inquiry as a continual, life long process of learning, growing & evolving: it helps us to reshape who we are, how we show up & how we engage with the systems around us: drive.google.com/file/d/11C0a3W…

Nora Murphy Johnson, Co-Founder and President at Inspire to Change, introduced the ALAE framework at our first MEL Learning & Practice Series session in October. For more insights on MEL and systems change, sign up to join the rest of the series: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/mel-le…

What forms and processes can support us to gather and organise for #SystemsChange? 🥁 Anna Birney, School CEO, weaves the threads of this exploration of working rhythms and containers with Natalia Lombardo and Emily Bazalgette: schoolofsystemchange.org/blog/structure…

On Thu 21 Nov join us and guest contributors Kecia Bertermann and Lee Alexander Risby as together we explore 'What Systems Change Contribution Is All About' as part of our #Monitoring, #Evaluation & #Learning (#MEL) Learning & Practice Series: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/mel-le…

Anna Birney, School CEO, introduces this new collection of writing from our Constellating Change series by sharing some of the rich and evocative parallels that constellations offer to #SystemsChange work: schoolofsystemchange.org/blog/constella…

Just 2 more days to apply to Spark, our 5-week leadership and #facilitation #SystemsChange course! Apply by 30 Oct: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/spark/…

With 12 experienced practitioners and over 50 participants, our 2023/24 Constellating Change learning and practice series journeyed deep into the dynamics of organising for #SystemsChange. 🚀

Want to join a movement of #changemakers in #finance? 🌐 Apply by 21 Nov to join the 2025 School of #SystemChange in Finance cohort, launched by @avivainvestors in partnership with @Forum4theFuture, School of System Change, and @edgeefx: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/school…

"Facilitation is a relational practice and as such relationships are all about dynamics, about movement and change. Facilitation is systemic from the get go." @AnnasQuestions, School CEO, reflects on #facilitation as an essential systemic practice (2016): medium.com/school-of-syst…

Over Delta’s 5-week jump into #SystemsChange, the experienced course team will introduce key concepts and explore 3 tools & frameworks for the cohort to apply to their complex challenges! 🌀 Learn more at our final info session on 8 Oct & apply by 17 Oct: #info-sessions-faq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/delta-…

The Dao of #Complexity by the brilliant Jean Boulton (School contributor) is a new book about challenging & deepening #worldviews in our turbulent and fast-changing times. 👁️ Join Jean at the book launch online or in person on 21 Oct in London, UK: iop.eventsair.com/doc2024/

Come join us for our monitoring, evaluation and learning series for systems change - grappling together with some of the challenges of this practice and learning our way forward with others and some great contributors 🐝

@Theholisticpsyc and that you can come from safe and secure homes even if you parents are separated

I wish more people knew that you can come from a broken home even if your parents are still together.

If you want to revolutionise your ability to lead #change and tackle #complex challenges, join our transformative 7-month Basecamp journey into #SystemsChange practice: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/baseca… Come along to an info session on 3 or 17 Sep to learn more, and apply by 30 September.

Exciting that we are launching our foundational programme! Come join…

Excited to partner with you too.. and look at how systems change learnt g can advance resilience 😎

🦁 Working Courageously Into an Unknowable Future with Joy Green. Learn to work from your heart and bring more of your whole self to your #SystemsChange work from a more spacious and enlivening perspective. This short course starts 27 June. Learn more: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/seedli…

Learn the #LewisDeepDemocracy approach to work with diverse opinions in your #SystemsChange work on our Seedling Series short course with Belamie Peddle, starting soon on 12 June! ⌛ Limited to just 12 participants – enrol now to secure your spot: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/seedli…

Jessica discusses the lack of #equity, diversity and inclusiveness #EDI in evaluation; the need to #decolonise evaluation and learning; and the culture and leadership gap: schoolofsystemchange.org/blog/transform… Learn more about the #MEL in #SystemsChange inquiry group: schoolofsystemchange.org/systems-change…

The Seedling Series is back for summer 2024! Top up your #SystemsChange practice by discovering the diversity of systemic approaches and practitioners in the field through these short online courses. 🌱 First up we have two brilliant sessions with Joy Green and Belamie Peddle ⬇️