Sarah Wong

We have a networked structure. In other words, we’re not an organisation. (We are hosted by Dudley CVS).

There are three layers to our networked structure which we carefully tend:

• There is a team leading the lab, who share the role of Network Guardians.


• Our team convene a network of organisations and local people.


• We work within a wider field or

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Priya’s expertise lies in framing conversation, and listening and tracking for language and how it begins to shift and shape perceptions in a group. Her speciality is facilitating meaningful conversations that activate a group's sense of possibility and identity.

she sought to identify ten subsystem variables that affect the likelihood of successful self-organization of efforts to achieve a sustainable socio-ecological systems by the communities involved. Summarized in a simple form the ten variables were:

The size of resource system – a moderate territorial size is most conducive to self-organization.

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the notion of the “community”, be that place‐based (a neighbourhood) or identity‐based (a specific group of raced, ethnic, classed or religious people)

Transition Design argues that stakeholder relations are the “connective tissue” within wicked problems, and and these nuanced “systemic relations” must be ‘mapped’ and analyzed to serve as the basis for problem resolution

The proactive favors I observed ranged from small gestures, like putting back the trash can for a neighbor who usually returns home after dark, to extended inter-ventions during which individuals take on serious risks and make sacrifices in order to assist somebody else.