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# sustainingemergence-blog

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## Posts

- [the guide](https://sustainingemergence.blog/the-guide/) - What I'm working on Welcome Hey Everyone, I'm Sasha I developed this guidebook for those of you who are beginning to step into leading and working in ways that makes use of our deep interconnectedness and imagination. For those of you who know in your bones that true solutions and innovations come from dreaming
- [reflection before submission](https://sustainingemergence.blog/reflection-before-submission/) - You know what they say, if you can see your path, you’re probably on someone else’s.
- [What is it to Facilitate?](https://sustainingemergence.blog/what-is-it-to-facilitate/) - To facilitate is to move things forward, helping people collaborate to create sustainable change.
- [Applying Living System Theory](https://sustainingemergence.blog/applying-living-system-theory/) - Building upon the rich tapestry of global Indigenous knowledge, Permaculture Design offers a practical application of Living Systems Theory. what's permaculture got to do with facilitating? Have you ever planted out all your seeds only to have a downpour wash them away? Or come home from a party to find the pigs have busted the
- [Methods for moving forward together](https://sustainingemergence.blog/methods-for-the-madness/) - There are as many methodologies for facilitators to convening people, hold space for generative conversations and doing meaningful work together. When designing this section of the guide, I curated resources which I've used most often when designing participatory processes. Most recently I've used them with core project teams, who have various levels of experience in
- [On Leadership](https://sustainingemergence.blog/on-leadership/) - a few words from Margaret Wheatley In fact, in this day and age, when problems are increasingly complex and there simply are not simple answers, and there is no simple cause and effect any longer, I cannot imagine how stressful it is to be the leader and pretend that you have the answer. So what
- [Design for wiser action](https://sustainingemergence.blog/design-for-wiser-action/) - When people come together to collaborate and solve wicked problems, it's usually driven by a desire to "get shit done!" "There's a problem to solve? Let's get into it and fix it." Thinking back to what we know about working in complexity, sloooowwwwing doooowwwn to listen to everyone's perspective and contribute their skills, can feel uncomfortable, and is vital to sustaining the work over the long term. These intractable problems need us for the long haul.
- [Developmental evaluation](https://sustainingemergence.blog/developmental-evaluation/) - Developmental Evaluation asks for ongoing learning within a context where the very nature is change.
- [Walking the Chaordic Path](https://sustainingemergence.blog/walking-the-chaordic-path/) - This generative space includes the creative tension between chaos (uncertainty, self-organization, creativity, flexibility, open process) and “order” (where there is more structure, direction, rules and use of authority).
- [A Simple Practice](https://sustainingemergence.blog/a-simple-practice/) - ...meaningful conversations occur when individuals are present, participate actively, are well-hosted, and engage in co-creation.
- [Open space technology](https://sustainingemergence.blog/open-space-technology/) - Delve deeply & creatively into pressing concerns in a focused environment. The agenda, driven by passion and a commitment to action, is set by those who are present. Typically, these meetings lead to transformative experiences for both individuals and groups. It's a straightforward yet potent approach to sparking meaningful working conversations and empowering organizations to
- [A simple meeting design](https://sustainingemergence.blog/a-simple-meeting-design/) - This one method gets a lot of play from me. It's a quick design checklist that allows us to get into the work, and leads to good participatory meetings.
- [The Circle Way](https://sustainingemergence.blog/the-circle-way/) - The Circle Way is an method for collaborative conversations that calls on long-held principles and practices of circle.
- [Principles of Dialogue](https://sustainingemergence.blog/principles-of-dialogue/) - Dialogues invite us to take the “risk” of being authentic and to co-create a space where others can do the same.
- [Living Systems](https://sustainingemergence.blog/living-systems/) - For centuries, Western thinking has been heavily influenced by a mechanistic worldview...
- [The Art of Participatory Leadership](https://sustainingemergence.blog/the-art-of-participatory-leadership/) - The Art of Participatory Leadership offers a practical approach for anyone looking to create more effective and positive ways of working together, innovating, and organizing.
- [Theories and Frameworks for Working in Complexity](https://sustainingemergence.blog/theories-and-frameworks-for-working-in-complexity/) - Think of a framework (or theory) as a map – it helps you navigate through complex information and make sense of the world around you.
- [Chaordic Stepping stones](https://sustainingemergence.blog/chaordic-stepping-stones/) - In a situation where we can not fully know the whole system, and we are not able to control the outcomes, our design and planning processes need to be more adaptive allowing us enough flexibility to respond to what we learn about the system in an ongoing way as we are working on it.
- [On My Bookshelf](https://sustainingemergence.blog/on-my-bookshelf/) - (Some of the) Thinkers, Writers, Artists I’ve leaned on to disrupt what Vandana Shiva calls the "Monoculture of the Mind"
- [The guide begins here.](https://sustainingemergence.blog/hello-world/) - Designed with the purpose of strengthening your learning for facilitating genuine, meaningful dialogue practices to address increasingly complex problems in a polarized world.

## Pages

- [HOME](https://sustainingemergence.blog/) - Welcome to... Sustaining Emergence Learn More "we're working to transform a world that is by its very nature, in a constant state of change." - adrienne maree brown Strengthening Local Food Systems How do I curate a local food system I want to eat with? Learn More I'm exploring this question for my Masters of
- [M.ed project](https://sustainingemergence.blog/strengthin-local-food-systems/) - Strengthening Local Food Systems - Where the project began... I spent a large chunk of my late twenties to late thirties traveling, teaching and dabbling in farming. When arriving in a new place, finding where to source local food - whether it's restaurants, markets or your neighbours, this will tell you a lot about a place
- [RESOURCES](https://sustainingemergence.blog/resources/) - Resources that support me & this project Thinkers I return to often listed in APA format, because you know...academia. Brown, A. M. (2017).Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. AK Press.Brown, B. (2015).Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Penguin.Brown, B. (2018).Dare to Lead: Brave Work.
- [THE WORK](https://sustainingemergence.blog/the-work-2/) - sustaining emergence project About the work "The world not as a collection of isolated objects but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent" In his book The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Fritojof Capra's words are a poetic embodiment of the competencies for Education for Sustainable
- [ABOUT ME](https://sustainingemergence.blog/about-me/) - Welcome In Photo by Bogomil Mihaylov on Unsplash I'm a student of complexity A facilitator, an educator, a designer and avid learner. My sweet spot is convening people and designing processes for in-person collaboration as a catalyst for emergence. "Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple
- [CONTACT](https://sustainingemergence.blog/contact/) - GET IN TOUCH Curious to learn more about the project?Or about my work as a facilitator-teacher-designer? Cool! email me at emmshaax@gmail.comI look forward to your inquiry, until then...Stay Human!

## Categories

- [guidebook](https://sustainingemergence.blog/category/guidebook/) - all posts related to MEd in Sustainability, Creativity and Innovation Project, the final requirement to be granted the degree.

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