Interest in the Stewarding Group and the Power Shift learning cohort recruitment processes demonstrated a huge demand for spaces to connect and learn amongst people who are and would like to further practise transformational governance approaches.

We are part of an emerging ecosystem of organisations, initiatives and individuals, like ‘Beyond the Rules’, ‘Liberatory Governance’ and others, who are exploring their own expressions of transformational governance. ****

To speak to the interest we’ve witnessed, we have created an online ‘Transformational Governance Community’ as a form of shared infrastructure for parts of the ecosystem to come together. We are offering light infrastructure, curation and coordination to enable this community to become a growing space of learning.

🌱 PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNITY

• To expand the visibility, capacity and connectivity in the emerging field for further/future transformational governance
• To work with the abundance of interest we know exists and provide a lighter touch offering to those with interest
• To experiment with and contribute to a thriving ecosystem
• To complement the more structured Power Shift learning cohort

🌿 WHAT WE HOPE TO SEE HAPPEN

• Greater connectivity between those experimenting with work in this area
• Prototype what learning infrastructure across an ecosystem/field/constellation looks like
• Increased collective capacity for learning and sharing around the practice of working with and within transformational governance
• Grow and show the demand and capacity for transformational governance, and the need for resourcing

🍀 WHO IS IT FOR?

• Practitioners of transformational governance at different stages of their personal journey
• We are initially inviting those who have expressed interest in the learning cohort and others we have been in touch with over the past two years
• You are welcome to invite others you think would benefit from and contribute to the community

We see this as emergent initiative but we’ll start with the following:

• A curated Slack group - a place to share interesting resources, articles, events
• Events - a mixture of open space meet-ups and dedicated learning sessions. We hope to develop light, accessible infrastructure to share the hosting with other groups and support others to hold their own spaces within the community.
• Sharing ideas through the newsletter, blog posts and beyond

HOW TO JOIN:

You can join the Transformational Governance community on Slack by clicking on the link below.

<aside> 👉 Join Transformational Governance community Slack space

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When you enter, you will find a modest menu of channels where you can start sharing questions, ideas, events and resources. To help us see who is a part of this growing community, please head over to the #introduce-yourself channel and say a little about who you are and why you are here. There’s also an opportunity to join a conversation about what you would like from a transformational governance community space (#shaping-our-community) and get involved in securing the resources to make it happen.