Events

You are invited to connect with colleagues & allies bringing forth a regenerative future via speed-networking through Zoom chats. If you are dreaming about a regenerative future, come meet others walking the same path. Cross-pollinate with other networks and expand your support base of allies. Until we can once again meet in person, let us get to know each other better online. During these one-hour "drop-in" sessions, we'll organize random, one-on-one video chats so you can meet new people, discover new networks and projects, trade ideas, start relationships and generally strengthen the community making our regenerative future a reality. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdOCupjMvEtW1qo5P7cBK1bcmUithNa-- Additional scheduled events can be found on the calendar on our site: www.regenerationpollination.earth Please share with your networks, interested connections, and regenerative friends. #RegenPollination Cross-Pollinating Co-Host organizations include:

• Abundant Earth Foundation and Weaver Network
• Aranya Solutions
• Climate Foundation
• Cohousing California
• CrowdDoing
• Dig In
• Earth Regenerators
• Farmer's Footprint
• Generation Regeneration
• Inquiring Systems Inc.
• JoshuaBridge.com
• nRhythm
• RASA, the Regenerative Agriculture Sector Accelerator 
• ReFarmers.org
• Seeds of Tao
• Shareable
• Global Regeneration CoLab (GRC)
• Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Lots of people have heard of Mondragon but many fewer know about its visionary founder and CEO, Fr. Josemaria Arizmendi (to use the shortened form of his name). Until now, none of his voluminous writings have been commercially available in English. At noon EST, April 22, Solidarity Hall will publish his Reflections, a selection of his insights on the dignity of the worker, the social power of the workplace, and the vision of cooperativism. The event will include a series of short readings from the book by Nathan Schneider (Everything for Everyone), Jessica Gordon Nembhard (Collective Courage), and several more activists from the solidarity economy movement. The event is free and a free PDF of the book will be available to attendees. This event is co-presented by Solidarity Hall and Zebras Unite. To obtain a Zoom link, please register at this Eventbrite page.  

Both during and following the COVID-19 crisis, governments need to be thinking about how to develop responses and policies that work for everyone. This means listening to all voices, particularly those from underrepresented groups. Listening to and learning with those who are seldom heard is critical if governments are to develop policies and responses that work for all of society; not just the dominant voices. It is also critical to building trust and collaboration in the fight against COVID-19. But what does good listening look like? How does listening lead to action? And how do you make it happen when trust in government is low and lockdown restricts our movement and spaces to meet? This webinar will explore the role and importance of listening to people experiencing complex challenges, and offer some insights around how to do it in a way which builds trust and lasting relationships.

Our current system of measurement in the public sector is not working: a focus on metrics designed for control is creating gaming, perverse incentives, and ultimately makes the job of public servants harder. For this reason, we need to shift away from using measurement as a means of control, and instead begin using it as a way to learn about complex problems and the people experiencing them, so we can adapt and improve our approach. Join us to explore the opportunities, challenges and practicalities of an alternative approach to measurement - measurement for learning.

Growing inequalities, persistent unemployment and environmental imperatives have come to the fore as priority policy issues. Socio-economic challenges have been exacerbated by COVID-19, making the rethinking of traditional policy approaches more urgent than ever. The social and solidarity economy, including associations, co-operatives, mutuals, foundations and social enterprises,  has emerged as a fundamental lever to build more inclusive and sustainable economies and societies. Data reveals that in some countries, social economy organisations can account for as much as 10% of total employment, representing a key source of jobs and income. The OECD has joined forces with the European Union through the Global Action “Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy ecosystems” to scale and further increase awareness on the social and solidarity economy and its role in building back better. The Action targets all EU Member States and six non-EU countries (Brazil, Canada, India, Korea, Mexico and the United States). This international conference will bring together hundreds of practitioners, experts and policy makers in the social and solidarity economy to:

• Learn more about the issues to consider when designing legal frameworks and measuring social impact, including new OECD research in these fields.
• Discuss brand new OECD evidence on the role of social and solidarity economy organisations in rebuilding better, by achieving social impact, promoting inclusiveness and addressing the impacts of COVID-19.
• Network with other international practitioners, experts and policy makers, during highly interactive roundtables and breakout sessions.

System stewardship is emerging as a new way of thinking about the role of government. Described as, “a new way of working that allows governments and their agents to effectively influence and steward systems from which outcomes emerge”, system stewardship is seen as being critical to contemporary public service practice. But what does it mean and look like in practice? Join this conversation to explore the concept of system stewardship, and how to encourage more of it within and across government agencies, so that our systems work to serve the people who they are supposed to benefit.