The Working Together Podcast: Recent Episodes
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While traveling through the Okanagan and Shuswap Valleys this fall, I met up with lots of great food-folk: farmers, foragers, chefs, and of course, appreciators (like me). And all of them were striving to create ARCHIPELAGOS of a Possible Future within a food culture that is heavily slanted towards chain stores, strip malls, and conventional […]
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This summer I had the opportunity to visit the Saskatoon Makerspace. Co-founder Devon Plett and I walked through the Makerspace and talked about its backstory: how he and his partner went on a tour of makerspaces across the Western US and Canada, searching for inspiration, best practices, and the right business model, and how […]
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“…So today, we must expect to be living this turbulence for a long time, in a double world where two realities live together in conflict: the old “limitless” world that does not acknowledge the planet’s limits, and another that recognizes these limits and experiments with ways of transforming them into opportunities. Now these worlds look […]
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Conflict can be creative. Indeed, if we are to survive the challenges of the 21st century, and create a better world, it must be. In episode #30 of the Working Together Podcast, I have a conversation with Jamie Chicanot–a conflict specialist with nearly 20 years experience–about how to create solutions in the midst of conflict. In […]
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In the darkness of a clear night sky Lay down Gaze up at the stars And imagine that you are looking out in front of you Facing the infinite cosmos … This episode is from a short manifesto I wrote back in December 2015. The sentiment still holds true. More than technocratic solutions to […]
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In part 1, professor Dan McCarthy from the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) worked through Francis Westley’s definition of social innovation and explored complex systems thinking wth us. Listen to it here. In episode #28 (part 2) Dan talks about what social innovation and complex systems thinking means for the practitioner: we get an overview of […]
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Our world is complex. But we don’t have to stress out about this. And if we happen to be feeling a tinge of fear, anxiety, and depression, we don’t have to suppress this: hiding our secret angst under an affirmation of simplicity and minimalism. No. Our world is far too messy for that. All those panacea proclaiming, minimalist-maximalists […]
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This is a special little episode about a practice that’s near and dear to my heart. A practice that has helped me weather many a storm over the years: non-religious mindfulness. This episode also has an associated “podcast exercise” for you to try out! Follow along. Breathe. Listen. Sit. “…What is easiest, is to fall back into […]
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The social media echo chamber has made you lots of friends. And it’s turned you on to all sorts of amazing new things: bands, articles, books, video, and so on. Because “If you like this, then you’ll like this!” runs in the background of everything you do online. A secret recommendation infrastructure that has created […]
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Gather round! Hear here! This holiday season, let’s go in the opposite extreme of “divide and conquer”. Let’s come together! From every mouse, mote, scintilla to every whale, juniper tree, grammie-grampie, snot-nosed kiddo, and so on, we are all fellow earthlings. We thinking, talking, making earthlings (aka we humans) happen to be the ones with […]
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On the darkest day of the year, a dark truth: Everything is fucked. Everyone is shitty to each other. Now… What to do about it?
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A short update/announcement episode. About where Working Together has been for the past month, and what I’ve been planning for it’s future. Happy Halloween!! 🙂
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There are 65 million refugees around the world, over half of which are children according to UNHCR. Many of these children will spend their entire childhood away from home. Some might be without their families, and many have experienced violence and insecurity (and continue to do so). In exile, they are “at risk of abuse, neglect, […]
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This episode is a compilation of clips from previous episodes–all centered on the concept of efficacy, which is like a red thread running through my Minotaur’s labyrinth of conversations with thinkers makers and doers here on The Working Together Podcast. We will explore the concept of efficacy in personal, political and technical modes (in that order). I […]
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Our techno-scientific world is a historical novelty, and it’s complex. We humans did not evolve for this new world. We have not experienced the magnitude of it’s consequences (unintended or otherwise) and their harms. I’m talking about things like environmental toxins, industrial pollutants, gamma radiation, and so on. I’m also talking about things we can […]
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It’s 30 years in the future. Imagine that you are walking into work… no wait… imagine that your home is also your where you work. (“familiar enough” you might say, “what’s so crazy about that?”) Because Artificial Intelligences (AIs) have so thoroughly taken over “the boring stuff” your “working” role is to help facilitate productive […]
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Beyond the salaried masses of 20th century bureaucracies and corporations… beyond the precarious moonlighters of the 21st century gig economy… lies the cooperative, an old answer with a new ring to it. Cooperatives are typically founded on seven basic principles set out in 1844: Voluntary and open membership Democratic member control Member economic participation Autonomy and […]
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What is the contemporary? How do we build and inhabit our city in a way that gels with who we are, and who we’re becoming? How do we grow and work together as a community, without stepping on each others’ toes in haste, without getting slowed down and frustrated with red tape and liability? Episode 16 […]
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What is the contemporary? How do we build and inhabit our city in a way that gels with who we are, and who we’re becoming? How do we grow and work together as a community, without stepping on each others’ toes in haste, without getting slowed down and frustrated with red tape and liability? Episode 15 of […]
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This is for anyone who is trying to create something. This is for the artist who is trying to develop his body of work and share it with the world. This is for the program director at a non-profit who is trying to create an innovative program to address an unmet need in her community. […]
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Is Design Thinking becoming more about thinking than design? Management by post-its? As I’ve argued in previous blog posts, and in episode #8 of the Working Together Podcast, the cargo cult versions of design thinking (i.e. “post-it design”) tend to become polite, facilitated conversations around a table, but miss what the field of design itself […]
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Theatre is more than just a form of live entertainment. When theatre is applied–to education, social justice and social change, community building efforts, conflict, disaster relief, and so on–the power of its technique and its content can transform our social relationships for the better. This is Applied Theatre. Usually coming in the form of participatory theatre created […]
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As you can guess, I’m fascinated with what happens when you bring a diverse group of people together to solve problems. Think of the model of the work party, the barn raising, the “talkoot”, and apply it to deliberative democratic practice–whether at work or in your community. Working Together is all about this kind of […]
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On the 10th episode of the Working Together Podcast, I take a break from our regular programming and harvest some of the best bits of previous episodes! Although the conversations are diverse, some key themes emerge, and I’ve tried my best to curate like-with-like in this show. Whether you want to learn how to build awesome […]
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I believe that the lowly old meeting can save the world. Sure, meetings are universally despised–who doesn’t hate meetings? We don’t plan them well. We run them terribly (god they can be so awkward sometimes!). In the worst examples, nothing comes from the meeting (except maybe a plan to have another meeting!). Yes. Meetings do […]
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I’ve always admired leaders who had a strong ability to bring everyone along. Without using power and manipulation to do so. These kind of leaders tend to be a rare breed–what I would oxymoronically call “honest politicians” of their field of work. Sometimes they were big names, who I had only encountered in biographies and historical […]
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How can we work together in a way that balances our need for cooperation and community, with our need for autonomy? How can we do all this, and create meaningful products and services that meet a real market need and make a positive social impact? In episode #7 of the Working Together Podcast I talk with […]
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In episode #6 of the Working Together Podcast, I interview Peter MacLeod who founded MASS LBP–an organization that is pursuing the long-game of democratic innovation. What does democratic innovation look like? Well, in MASS LBPs case, it is a reinvention of public consultation through the pioneering use of Civic Lotteries and Reference Panels. To get a better idea […]
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The market continually strives to provide what we need or want. More. Cheaper. Faster. All this readily available stuff is replacing our natural inclination to make, tinker and fix. And as our lives get busier and busier, we have less time to “noodle around” in a workshop. When something breaks or wears out, instead of […]
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This episode is for all the meeting haters out there! If you are wondering how you can use engagement to “turn-on” your workplace and your community, this conversation is filled with pure gold! In Episode #4 of the Working Together Podcast, I have a conversation with Bob Chartier, who is well known in Canada as a […]
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Do you ever go through a burst of inspiration and motivation, where everything seems to ‘click’ and you see exactly what you need to do to attain your goals? You sit down, crack open your journal, put everything together and write out your game plan. With your intentions set and your plan sketched out, you […]
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I talk with Anne Cooper, who told me the story behind Revelstoke’s extraordinary success with early childhood programming, which has transformed elementary, middle and high-school literacy and drop-out rates for the better. We talked about the importance of unrealistic goals, and how to successfully develop partnerships across diverse organizations. Anne is the retired superintendent of School District […]
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Earlier this year I spoke with author David Leach and learned some fascinating lessons from the complex history of the Kibbutz–lessons that really pushed me to rethink what community and coexistence can mean. David Leach is the author of Chasing Utopia: the Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel and chair of the University of Victoria writing department. […]
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