power

A pink post-it note on the last page of The Tiger Who Came For tea book, that reads “Denouement, We return to the world forever changed”.

Reading 10

October 26, 2025October 26, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour Image credit: Sam Villis on… Read More »Reading 10

Fourth panel of the tiny zine. Left hand panel has a closer look at the head and shoulders of the tiny person, with big eyes and who is angrily pointing at the top edge, which is accidentally uneven and offset on every page. The right hand panel has the small person hiding their face in their hands in despair.

Reading 9

October 17, 2025October 17, 2025
Reading

It’s not Sunday evening (it’s Friday evening) but I’ve had a bit of a tough… Read More »Reading 9

Blach and white photo. Elspeth Beard astride her BMW motorbike, with large side and rear panniers (designed and built by her out of sheet aluminium and rivets), with a white helmet resting on the handlebars. She's wearing jeans, leather boots, and a leather jacket. She's parked up outside what looks like a warehouse, looking off camera.

Reading 1

June 28, 2025October 22, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 15 mins Image credit: Motorcyclist… Read More »Reading 1

A group photo of one of the Environmental Leadership Programme cohort of young people, taken in a large hangar.

Case study: power, privilege and identity

January 7, 2025June 7, 2025
Case studies

Who: The West Midlands Environmental Leadership Programme, which is run by Shropshire Wildlife Trust and… Read More »Case study: power, privilege and identity

Presentation slide covering Values in action; on the left, co-production values, and on the right, what they look like in action. Value all participants, and build on their strengths. - Enable everyone to participate fully (equity); people must feel safe, valued, heard, understood. Develop networks across silos. - Work across boundaries and hierarchies. Pay attention to those outside of traditional systems. Do what matters for the people involved. - Listen to understand people’s context and experience first, before bringing your agenda. Build relationships of trust and share power. - Share ideas, make decisions together, test things, give (and take) honest constructive feedback. People can be change makers, and organisations become enablers. - Use positional power to remove barriers, and change the rules and permissions.

Case study: learning session on power and co-production

July 15, 2024August 27, 2024
Case studies

Who: Platfform (the mental health and social change people), as part of the New System… Read More »Case study: learning session on power and co-production

Selwyn Williams, wearing a checked shirt and a ricksack, standing in the sunshine and talking to someone out of shot.

Strength in love: a community movement for Wales

July 5, 2021October 19, 2024
Archive (old posts)

(Originally published in The Welsh Agenda #66, Spring / Summer 2021) A few months ago… Read More »Strength in love: a community movement for Wales