Movement EcologyBlog
Reflections on social movements, organising and collective power.
Social movement ecology: how to build collective power across a fragmented Left
Why does the left keep failing to turn energy into power? Social movement ecology offers a different approach to movement building, collective action and organising across difference.
What is ecosystem facilitation?
How we facilitate for collective power: An outline of our response to being stuck in silos, differences and misunderstanding.
Surviving the festive season: what we learned from practising difficult conversations
Reflections on forming a community of practice preparing to challenge divisive language during the winter holidays.
With comrades like these: Left political culture and the practice of collective power
A reflection on the habits of left political culture that keep us fragmented, and on what it might look like to practise what we preach.
Facilitating for collaboration
How to hold space to support collaboration across differences, increase capacity and foster a healthy social movement culture.
Mapping the participatory democracy movement
A call to mobilise, organise and resource a people-power movement to build a better democracy.
Mapping power in social movements
How to map power in social movements in a way that informs our next moves as changemakers and organisations.
Belonging in late stage capitalism
How pathologies of the system manifest as personal problems – and what that might tell us about the state of the world
Reflections on facilitating the Wikimedia Summit ’24
How we worked with the Wikimedia movement to create the Wikimedia Summit ’24 – an international three-day event in Berlin with over 170 Wikimedians.
What is movement ecology, and why is it useful?
How do we come together, in all our diversity, to create the worlds we want to see, feel and belong to? A look into movement ecology as a framework for working towards system change
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We welcome posts from practitioners and researchers in movement ecology and related fields, so get in touch if you have insights or experiences to share.