Matching Resources and Needs
Yesterday, I had the honor of facilitating “Building the Alliance — An Interactive Workshop Weaving our Alliance Network” with Kristin Johnstad of Johnstad and Associates, with planning help from Clarity Facilitation.
Alliance Members Connecting (image credit JM Grants)
We started the 75 minutes by highlighting some of the core principles of Network Weaving (closing triangles, listening to understand, and doing small things as a way to build networks out of what seems to be chaos). To make it very practical, most of our time was spent doing an interactive game where people identified resources they had to offer, things that they needed to do their work, and then looking for matches.
As a rough tally, I’d guess the group made around 75 specific, practical connections they said they planned to follow up on after the session. Whether they all do or not, people connected, had fun, and walked away with a better understanding of Network Weaving.