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CoCreative Consulting
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Our team at CoCreative designs and supports boundary-spanning #systemschange networks and collaborations and supports system leaders through coaching and #leadership training. #Collaboration

Learn more: www.wearecocreative.com
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Through experiential learning, stories, and guided practice, develop your capacity to navigate complexity using multiple ways of knowing, leading to more nuanced, effective, and human change work.

Join us on April 30, 2026!

➡️ Learn more and register: www.wearecocreative.com/event-schedu...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Essential skill-building opportunity! 📣 ⬇️

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#ResonantListening
Grow: Resonant Listening Workshop
Resonance in a conversation arises when we have a sense that the other person really heard us and is “with us.” It’s fundamental to creating connection, trust, and thinking well together. In this work...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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This month's newsletter highlights two recent offerings for practicing the future we want to see in facilitating collaborative systems change.

You'll also find:
🌱 Upcoming courses and workshops
💬 An invitation to use our Collaboration Advisor (AI)

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November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Last week wrapped the latest Facilitating Collaborative Innovation Course. We love learning what people are taking with them and applying to advance powerful collaborative work with the proven approaches we share in our trainings!

Course Schedule: www.wearecocreative.com/upcoming-eve...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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CoCreative's Russ Gaskin, on the @sinetwork.bsky.social
list of 25 Key Thinkers and Doers in the World of Systems Innovation to Follow!

Full list here: www.linkedin.com/posts/comple...

#SystemsInnovation #SystemsThinking #ChangeMakers #Celebration
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November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Check out our Insights page for the latest from CoCreative!

What's new? ⬇️

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#SystemsChange #Facilitation #Tools #Collaboration #CollaborativeLeadership #CollaborativeInnovation
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Gratitude for this timely blog from Change Elemental that offers wisdom for this critical moment.

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In Strategy & Spirit: Planting the Seeds of a Future We Want
“To believe is to become what you believe.” — June Jordan We have been a bit quiet these last few months. This has been the quiet we need to listen to ourselves, to you—grassroots groups, artists, ...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Tending the Flame: A Framework for Liberatory Facilitation in Collective Spaces

This piece was a labor of love, co-created to honor the complexity and the joy of this work. We hope it serves as a spark for your own reflections and conversations.

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Tending the Flame: A Framework for Liberatory Facilitation in Collective Spaces | CoCreative
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November 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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CoCreative's virtual advisor will help you develop more effective #collaboration for positive change. We've trained our advisor using course manuals, frameworks, and content from 17 years of training and support of 60+ collaboratives. #systemschange

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Collaboration Advisor
CoCreative's virtual advisor will help you develop more effective collaboration for positive change. We've trained our advisor using course manuals, frameworks, and content from 10 years of training a...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Exciting work opportunity with @systemschange.bsky.social !
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We're hiring a Head of Learning Programmes!
We're excited to be bringing in a new member of our team - someone ready to take the strategic lead for our programme based learning offerings.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🌲𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽? We provide coaching and advisory support for leaders, funders, and facilitators of collaborative systems change.

Learn more & set up a connecting call.
www.wearecocreative.com/coaching
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November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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⭐ New Course Announcement! ⭐

Working with Complexity: Beyond Analytical Knowing — a virtual experiential course for change leaders & facilitators.

Explore how somatic, intuitive, & feeling-based ways of knowing can help you lead through complexity with more depth, connection, & effectiveness 🔗 ⬇️
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November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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If you want to learn how to design and facilitate workshops that bring participants together to collaborate and enable change, our next learning lab might be for you.

Full info: www.systemsinnovation.network/spaces/21792...
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We develop, test, and refine a lot of powerful tools to help people solve complex problems together—and we share freely. Because helping you succeed in making the world a better place, we also succeed, even if we never actually work with you.

🛠️ www.wearecocreative.com/creative-tools

#Collaboration
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November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Over years of experience and observation, we have identified a set of patterns that often emerge in collaborative efforts, and have found ways to leverage them for efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. "What and how," you ask?

Join us Nov 11!

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6 Patterns in Collaborative Innovation | CoCreative
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October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Are you a leader navigating complexity and seeking support? Our team provides coaching and advisory support for leaders, funders, and facilitators of collaborative systems change.

www.wearecocreative.com/coaching

#SystemsChange #Facilitation #CollaborativeLeadership #Coaching #Collaboration
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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Transformations Community Is Hiring – Two Remote Roles Open

📌 Learn more and apply: transformationscommunity.org/tccareers
Careers | Transformations Community
Join Our Team! We are always seeking creative, innovative, and committed team members. We believe in the power of collective action and the importance of sh ...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Final day to register for Facilitating Collaborative Innovation, starting October 22! Here's what an alumni had to say.

Secure your spot today, October 20: www.wearecocreative.com/event-schedu...

#SystemsChange #Facilitation #CollaborativeLeadership #Course #CollaborativeInnovation #Collaboration
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October 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Earlier this year we interviewed systems change practitioners to better understand the current landscape of collaborative systems change, identify emerging needs & opportunities, & explore how we might collectively evolve the field to meet the demands of our time.

Ten central themes emerged.

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October 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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There's still time to register for next week's FCI course!

This course goes beyond theory, providing you with practical tools and hands-on experience to implement and facilitate powerful collaborative processes.

🗓️ Oct 22, 29, Nov 5 & 12, 2025
🕚 8-11:30 am ET | 2-5:30 pm CET

🔗⬇️

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October 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Join CoCreative Partner, Luzette Jaimes and our friend Adam Molyneux-Berry for this week's #Mindfulness for #ChangeMakers session!

📅 Date: Thursday, October 16th @ 9am ET
🔗 Join us: Sign up here: i-i-i.co/mfc/
Mindfulness for Changemakers | Leadership community
Discover stress management techniques, resilience building, and self-care practices to prevent burnout. Develop emotional intelligence, focus, and productivity. Cultivate mindful communication, collab...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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🌍 We’re hiring! Two remote roles with the Transformations Community. Join us in building a global commons for transformative change. Communications Lead & Operations Lead.

📝 Read more & Apply now: transformationscommunity.org/tccareers/

#Hiring #RemoteJobs #Sustainability #SystemsChange
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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We're inspired by what our friends, partners, and broader community of changemakers are up to! Here's a thread of resources and opportunities we invite you to explore. 🧵

#SystemsChange #networks #CollectiveLeadership #Collaboration #Emergence #HumanCenteredDesign

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October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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CoCreative's Russ Gaskin and Heather Equinoss are in Boston this week supporting a Healthcare Anchor Network convening and shared this cool news!

#SystemsChange #HealthEquity #Healthcare #Collaboration #Networks #PossibilityPeople
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October 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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#NewLeadersNetwork event happening today! Get your ticket!

Grow: Accountability Cannot Be Delegated
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October 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM