Convening AS Capacity Building for the New Age

PART 4 of 6

This article, originally written in the spring of 2019; revised in the midst of Covid; and as a result of feedback; has now become a 6 Part Series. May this new breakdown of the information create yet more pleasant reading for everyone.

“If programming WITHIN the system is important, the meta-programming OF the system itself is even more important.”

(Don’t know who said this, but it has stuck with me for years… and thought it fitting to introduce this article here)

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PART 4 — Change vs. Infrastructure Transformation

But aren’t we already doing this?…

Most of you who are reading this might say… Sure, okay, but we’re already doing that. There have been tons of initiatives around convening (gathering people together for conversation and discussion) across sectors in the name of creating something better or something more in the world…

If you are thinking this, please consider the following…

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Generally speaking, we think about convening (gathering people together for conversation and discussion at one end, and for conferences at the other end) as an afterthought or an add-on on the back-end of our intentions for the most part, and to further ideations and agendas (often of fixed or forming models or organizations) in some way, not on the…