It’s Deeper than DEI

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is facing backlash. That’s frustrating for many of us, but instead of just reacting, we should see this as an opportunity to go deeper and get more precise in our approach. Too often, DEI efforts are instrumental—treated as checkboxes rather than integral parts of how organizations function. We need to […]

How to (Still) Implement DEI in Workplace Policies: Strong Processes for Lasting Change

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts are facing intensifying challenges, but the importance of the deeper values it points to–liberty and justice for all– remains undiminished. Organizations that truly commit to DEI create workplaces where all employees feel valued, supported, and empowered. However, successful DEI implementation requires more than one-time initiatives; it demands strong intentions, […]

Seeing the Dimensions of Conflict

Many people see conflict as destructive. But it doesn’t have to be.

Intro to CODA™ – How To Harmonize Organizations

Many people have a shared vision of the world we long to see.  People describe this vision using many different words, often “liberation” and “freedom.”  We call our vision Harmony. Despite many of us sharing this vision, groups are having trouble actually grounding and operationalizing it.  We get together in groups to work toward aspects […]

What is Harmony?

Most people look at the world as it currently exists and think “we can do better than this.” Many people from many backgrounds and movements have created language to describe their vision of “better.” Harmony is ours. Read more to learn what Harmony is & how we create it together.

Why The Way We’re Working Together Isn’t Working

Being human is hard. Working together is harder.
Many of us share a vision of the world we want to see, but the way we are working together to create it is not working.

As we co-create the liberated world we deserve, our lives, our leadership, and our organizations are limited by habits and structures that we have learned from the very systems from which we long to be liberated.

Autopsy of a Failed Holacracy

Many organizations are craving a new way of doing things. They feel the pressures of bureaucracy, understand the problems with hierarchy, and are ready to shift to new organizational models. This is especially true for organizations that exist for the express purpose of achieving social justice.

Common Mistakes of Co-Governance & Mistake #3

Most of us have learned to avoid directly communicating about our experiences and perspectives. We rarely speak about our lived and emotional experiences in a moment and we have trained ourselves not to respond to or move from our embodied feelings. We’ve learned to value ideas that are presented as universal and dismiss contributions that are transparently drawn from our personal experiences of life.

Common Mistakes of Co-Governance: Mistake #2

Transitioning to co-governance is like taking the training wheels off of a bike. Those training wheels were really offering some support and stability, so taking them off will create some needs. We can’t just take off the training wheels, make no other adjustments, and expect to stay upright.

Common Mistakes of Co-Governance

Every day more organizations are reimagining how they work together. People feel the pains, inefficiencies, and contradictions of the rigidly hierarchical systems that pervaded 20th-century organizations, and they sense that there is a way to bring more passion, humanity, creativity, and fulfillment into our work.