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Posts by Gather Light Action

Three groups of people playing We Can game on floor of community centre

Three groups of people playing We Can game on floor of community centre

We Can games adapted and used on Saturday at Stroud event in ZIP file www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3n5tk... Includes one page rules, board and cards in PDF format.

Finding agency and capacity to build communal capabilities.

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Card showing Three Gatherings methodology for rebuilding connections and hopes

Card showing Three Gatherings methodology for rebuilding connections and hopes

Just confirmed our first project.

Rebuilding connections, trust and hopes in a town with a very large infrastructure project ongoing.

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Fire symbol at centre of circle with Gather, light, action above and blow it

Fire symbol at centre of circle with Gather, light, action above and blow it

New stickers today for www.gatherlightaction.com

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On one side the three gatherings as way of rebuilding connections and hopes

On one side the three gatherings as way of rebuilding connections and hopes

On the others side - the fire, the candle, the torch as metaphors for working with past regrets, present confusions and future hopes

On the others side - the fire, the candle, the torch as metaphors for working with past regrets, present confusions and future hopes

New cards explaining the Three Gatherings for rebuilding trust, connection and hope together.

A deliberate sequence of being present together in the pasts, the presents and the futures using codesign, civic assembly and active hope techniques.

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Question ask what happens when an event is announced - answers include the same group turn up, no one turns up, good turnout of diverse group and people turn up and they are angry

Question ask what happens when an event is announced - answers include the same group turn up, no one turns up, good turnout of diverse group and people turn up and they are angry

What are your community consultation and connection events like (honestly)?

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Page one of two - 8 questions about how organisation consults with people and how people react

Page one of two - 8 questions about how organisation consults with people and how people react

The questions have responses about how cynical or bored people feel. Do they think the organisation cares and do they care if it doesn’t

The questions have responses about how cynical or bored people feel. Do they think the organisation cares and do they care if it doesn’t

A survey for organisations who feel they have lost the trust and hope of their customers/users/citizens. This is the tricky opening part of the work on rebuilding connections.

Trust is reciprocated - does the organisation care what people think anyway?

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1. Explicit scaling mission
2. Change is relational
3. Strong commitment to quality
4. Bridging the local and global
5. Dynamic leadership with interdisciplinary teams
6. Physical space matters

1. Explicit scaling mission 2. Change is relational 3. Strong commitment to quality 4. Bridging the local and global 5. Dynamic leadership with interdisciplinary teams 6. Physical space matters

From the summary.

Point 6 is something Gather Light Action is based on 2/2

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Preview
Scaling democratic innovations: Features of Effective Catalyst… DemocracyNext paper about the civic infrastructure that supports democratic innovations to scale

DemocracyNext www.demnext.org/projects/sca... report on some ideas for future democratic systems and tools 1/2

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Three Gatherings – Gather Light Action

The Three Gatherings method is based on extensive work in facilitation of tricky problems gatherlightaction.com/three-gather... It is rooted in the idea that people, not technologies, find actionable hopeful futures.

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Blog – Gather Light Action

Pulled some old @acuity.design blog posts onto this site gatherlightaction.com/blog/ which explain both background and future hopes for this project

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This is about finding new connections and better solutions using human presence not artificial intelligence.

This is about finding new connections and better solutions using human presence not artificial intelligence.

Human presence not artificial intelligence

You can’t find meaningful connection or hope in #AI. Bring with people, you can.

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When you have lost trust or hope
It is easy for any organisation to lose the trust of the people it serves or the staff who work within it.

It is easy to lose a sense of hope about the future and what actions to take in the present.

What we offer is a way of rebuilding the foundations and enabling honest conversations about past regrets, current confusions and futures hopes.

The Three Gatherings method comes from years of work by Alastair Somerville in many types of organisation and in many different problem spaces.

What we offer you is time and place to regain hope and agency
What we offer is a time and a place now for you to regain a sense of future hope and reclaim your agency in a period of radical confusion and hard polarisation.

When you have lost trust or hope It is easy for any organisation to lose the trust of the people it serves or the staff who work within it. It is easy to lose a sense of hope about the future and what actions to take in the present. What we offer is a way of rebuilding the foundations and enabling honest conversations about past regrets, current confusions and futures hopes. The Three Gatherings method comes from years of work by Alastair Somerville in many types of organisation and in many different problem spaces. What we offer you is time and place to regain hope and agency What we offer is a time and a place now for you to regain a sense of future hope and reclaim your agency in a period of radical confusion and hard polarisation.

www.gatherlightaction.com - using human presence to regain hope and agency.

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Gather Light Action – Rebuilding trust and hope through gatherings

Our new website is available now

This is a new project that combines work done in codesign, civic assemblies and community hope by @acuity.design. It starts with the hard stuff - the loss of trust, regrets and broken promises.

gatherlightaction.com

It is a start. It is about connection and hope.

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Three Gatherings with underlying metaphor of gather, light and action

Three Gatherings with underlying metaphor of gather, light and action

Making things so as to see if they make sense.

Three public meetings to face resentments, use deliberation and then imagine hopeful futures.

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Shared vulnerability not super intelligence slide

Shared vulnerability not super intelligence slide

Using the power of people together rather than some AI to find trust and hope.

Asking to help and asking for help.

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Gather Light Action logo on brinks mats

Gather Light Action logo on brinks mats

Start with a hot drink…

Gather
Light
Action

Rebuilding for trust and hope in communities using Three Gatherings

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Circular logo with fire at centre for Gather Light Action

Circular logo with fire at centre for Gather Light Action

Test printing some drinks mats for use when meeting and chatting

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The ideas of Gather as Fire, Light as Candle and Action as Torch

The ideas of Gather as Fire, Light as Candle and Action as Torch

The core ideas of Gather Light Action are being present together and using light in different ways to explore past regrets, present ideas and future hopes.

Three Gatherings with people.

There is always a risk too: fire can hurt. We need to recognise and respect that possibility.

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Bringing a few workshops and methods together from @acuity.design work on codesign, hope and civic assemblies

Will upload site and more over the next week.

First project soon

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