Closed Collective Model: Week Seven – Getting on the same page
Closed Collective Model: Week Seven – Getting on the same page Due to some timetabling and miscommunications, we had a slightly smaller group meeting today and didn’t use all the time we set aside for it. It’s important to mark when things don’t go to plan because it gives us the opportunity to learn how […]
Closed Collective Model: Week Six – Exploring possibilities
Closed Collective Model: Week Six – Exploring possibilities A note at the start about language: I am a disabled person and I sit on the board of a disability charity. In both my day-to-day life and that role, I do not use what is known as ‘person-first language’ (e.g. a person with disabilities) but instead […]
Closed Collective Model – Weeks Four & Five: Standing together
Closed Collective Model – Weeks Four & Five: Standing together Due to time constraints, I suggested to the group that I combine the blog for weeks four and five given that they covered many of the same themes and ideas around funding. They accepted this suggestion. We seem to have settled on using ‘One good/one […]
Closed Collective Model – Week Three: Painting a Picture
Closed Collective Model – Week Three: Painting a Picture After some technical hiccups on my end, We started the session with a check-in led by Georgina from BDYD, who asked the group to reflect on how they were feeling in that moment and to describe how they felt as a colour. What we heard was […]
Closed Collective Model – Week Two: Moving Forward
Closed Collective Model – Week Two: Moving Forward Our second meeting started on a grey day following a busy weekend. The check-in question for the day was ‘If your feelings controlled the weather, what would the weather be like right now?’ We heard that people felt like slow-moving clouds, creeping through the day, or like […]
Closed Collective Model – Week One: First Steps
Closed Collective Model – Week One: First Steps This Monday, 13 September, saw us move into the next stage of a project that has been in the works for a few month. As a funder, we want to look beyond the impact the money makes to how the processes of allocating funding could be used […]