Our Vision
Envisioning a world of reciprocity, care, and collective resilience
Envisioning a world of reciprocity, care, and collective resilience
We envision a world where people, communities, and institutions recognise their deep interdependence with the more-than-human world; where local knowhow illuminates global understanding, where we collaborate to navigate complexity together, with care and reciprocity woven into the fabric of systems designed to serve life.
We cultivate collective resilience by connecting diverse voices, amplifying existing wisdom, and nurturing the relationships that enable transformative collaboration.
We help communities and organizations discover the innovations already present among them, then weave these insights into networks of mutual support that can respond creatively to whatever challenges arise.
We organize ourselves as a living network, drawing inspiration from the mycelial connections that weave diverse ecosystems into resilient wholes. Rather than rigid hierarchies, we embrace fluid partnerships that form and evolve in response to the needs of each collaboration.
This approach allows us to bring together the right voices and expertise for each moment, fostering the kind of distributed resilience and adaptive capacity we seek to cultivate in the world.
Our core team provides strategic program design and support, while our faculty and extended network is distributed and brings expertise from multiple domains including humanitarian response, organisational development, systems thinking, dialogue facilitation, and academic research.
What unites us is a shared commitment to collective approaches and a belief in the wisdom that emerges when diverse perspectives come together.
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Thanks for a fabulous session and 'rapid education'. This has been rich and informative.
The resilience assessment showed us that our team's areas of challenge were actually complementary strengths we hadn't learned to coordinate. The shift in how we work together has been transformational.
The Open Dialogues help me think in new ways. The approach combines deep theoretical understanding with practical tools for changing how we work. It's helping us rethink everything from our grant-making processes to our relationships with grantees.
When our "right" is not right anymore there is a need for a new direction. A new blueprint. And I think a great first place is looking at what is not working anymore and finding a hopeful path for the future. Thank you, Impact Trust, for leading the way and opening the door to such meaningful discussion.
Thanks The Impact Trust. I appreciated the session on Tuesday. I didn't realise how emotional I was about the issue of cultural dominance, but it was also so heartening to see others coming to the same realisation.