In this episode of "Affectively" on The How, Alícia talks to French activist Sarah Durieux. Sarah shares her insights on activism, emphasising the importance of community organising, emotional engagement, and the need for healthy relationships within activist spaces. She critiques the dominant culture's influence on activism and advocates for a new approach that values the process of activism over mere outcomes. Sarah introduces the archipelago model of organising, which promotes decentralised collaboration among activist groups, and highlights the necessity of healing trauma within collective spaces to foster resilience and solidarity.

Note from Alícia: in a moment of the recording I say "I translated this", obviously, I mean I translated the title, not the whole book...sadly!

This episode opens up a new series, in this case, still strongly related to Affectively, but additionally "This is Political" - every now and then we are going to make more obvious links between the importance of organising and our political context.

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🔗Sarah's books

https://www.fnac.com/a20942378/Sarah-...

Other interviews to Sarah (you can put English subtitles on):

🔗Circus politicus interview    • Soigner nos révolutions (2/2)  

🔗Podcast "Les couilles sur la table"    • Soigner nos révolutions (2/2)  

🔗Climate academy podcast    • Comment continuer son engagement écologiqu...  

🔗Regards interview    • « On peut militer sans reproduire des méca...  

🔗Le Media interview    • PEUT-ON ENCORE LUTTER SANS SE SACRIFIER ?  

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In this episode of "Affectively on The How," Alícia engages in a conversation with Natalia Lombardo about the significance of action-oriented research within networks and communities. They explore the importance of understanding the systems we operate in to effectively implement changes.

Natalia emphasizes that research should not only be about gathering data but also about making it accessible and useful for practitioners. The discussion highlights the challenges and rewards of conducting research from within a community, as well as the necessity of collaboration and communication in making research findings actionable.

Throughout the conversation, Natalia shares insights on how to approach research in a way that fosters collective intelligence and encourages participation from all members of a network. They discuss the importance of reflection and iteration in the research process, illustrating how insights can lead to meaningful changes in organizational structures and practices.

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🔗https://www.enspiral.com

🔗https://www.thehum.org

🔗 https://www.eltilo.casa

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I discuss with Sandra and Brendon about the emotional side of networks. Why are networks so emotional? What moments can they remember that were especially emotional to them? We start talking about the Fito Networks manifesto and how it grounded in emotion and we journey through their "careers" as networks weavers in different parts of the world. To me it was especially interesting to hear about how these two aspects intersect, heaviness and lightness and what strategies they use for their work to be able to stay and work in networks on the long term.

This was recorded live during the Networks Festival.

Michael Arnoldus is a CTO and organizational thinker with decades of hands-on experience in self-management. With roots in software architecture and agile practices, and a background in psychotherapy and meditation, he bridges the worlds of tech and human development. 

In this conversation, Michael and Francesca explore the complexities and challenges of self-management in practice, in vastly different organizational contexts. They discuss the importance of recognition, the need for clarity in roles, and the balance between giving freedom and setting direction in leadership, and the role of hierarchies within that. They also touch on the evolving nature of leadership in the face of rapid change. 

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🔗Source Principles (Peter Koenig): https://creatinglovein.business/about/

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Jaya Brekke is a strategist, researcher, and blockchain expert, mixing cryptography with political groove. She’s advised the European Commission, led projects on decentralized tech and digital privacy, and now, as Chief Strategy Officer at Nym Technologies, she’s crafting tools to counter digital surveillance.

In this conversation, Francesca Pick and Jaya cover lots of ground: from discussing societal implications of new technologies and reflecting on the original promises of the blockchain space in supporting societal change--all the way to the personal, reflecting on Jaya's journey as a leader in a tech startup while staying true to her anarchist roots.

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🔗 A curation of Jaya's speaking & writing: https://www.jayapapaya.xyz/

🔗 Deep dive into techno authoritarianism & digital commons: https://particollective.substack.com/p/hacking-techno-authoritarianism-digital

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In this episode Alicía talks to Chris and Alex about the micro and the macro of....our society, basically! An abstract episode that ends up being very specific going through four examples that Chris and Alex participate in / work on the Ephemera Journal, Tzoumakers, the P2P Lab itself and an Energy Community.

We talk about how emotions are material, our relational layer influences how we then provide for our needs 🤍

This episode's guest is Michel Bachmann, global community weaver from Switzerland. His work in the social impact space began as co-founder Impact Hub Zürich, where he also led the transition of the global Impact Hub network towards a distributed organization with 100+ spaces across the world. Since then, has worked with numerous global networks to grow community and cultivate a culture of genuine co-creation for the regeneration of our planet, and co-authored a powerful Community Weaving Framework (www.community-weaving.org) as partner of Together Institute.

In this conversation, we talk about how Michel's work within the field of systems change has evolved over the last decade, the challenges of creating a community FOR community weavers, as well as his own leadership journey as a "community entrepreneur".

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🔗 Community Weaving Framework: www.community-weaving.org

🔗Great article by Michel, Start with 'Who' (not Why) https://medium.com/@michelbachmann/start-with-who-15b8857ed718

🔗Source Principles (Peter Koenig): https://creatinglovein.business/about/

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🎬 The production crew: Manel Heredero

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++ This is Episode 1 of the HOW's new season, themed Leadership Journeys and hosted by Francesca Pick (Greaterthan Partner) ++

In this episode, Francesca speaks to community animator, speaker and writer Jojo Spinks about her participatory placemaking work across the UK through the Interwoven network.

We talk the viral format of the "Squilometer" based on gift economy principles, the Quiet Voice Methodology, the evolution of the interwoven network as a distributed community and Jojo's personal leadership journey.

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🔗 The Quiet Voice Methodology: https://interwoven.uk/

🔗 What is a Squilometer? https://www.interwovenproductions.com...

🔗Source Principles (Peter Koenig): https://creatinglovein.business/about/

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In this episode Alicía gets an update on the learnings of the Deep Adaptation Forum on their Diversity and Decolonising Circle.

The discussion then focusses on Dorian's research and practices on Social Learning spaces. Specifically, Dorian names the 4 conditions that help people stay with uncomfortable topics and we dive into how to use social learning spaces to unlearn cultural patterns. And...attention..."culture is not your friend" Terence McKenna.

The research for this podcast has received support from the project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

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🔗 https://madocollective.org/connecting/ Dorian's website where he summarised ALL his incredible research!! Check it out!

🔗 https://youtu.be/CCeby8runhU The first podcast I recorded with Dorian and Wendy

In this episode I invite back Tomomi from Emotions at Work together with her colleague Oriana LaVilla. We dive deeper and, in some occasions, more practically on what it means to wear the emotional lens at work. What questions can we ask ourselves? What practices can we engage with that will support us in practicing more emotional intelligence?

We also get some of the latest learnings on Oriana's and Tomomi's latest cohort of their programme Emotions at Work.

Talking to them feels more distanced to my usual constructivist approach, so for me it's challenging, provoking and very interesting. An invitation and a reminder that there is so much more beyond our worldview and ideals that can be extremely helpful.

The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology.

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