With Fernande Raine, Karin Muller and Zineb Mouhyi, 6 May 2021
Summary
This session focused on making structural community-building and ecosystem restoration attractive to funders. Facilitators guided 28 international participants through a “peer assist” set of breakouts to harness group intelligence. The groups explored live funding and participation dilemmas across three active initiatives: Youth by Youth, Got History, and Weaving for a Thriving Planet. The workshop used Miro to capture the process.
Key Learning Points
- Peer support builds mutual listening capacity
- Non-experts offer creative out-of-the-box solutions
- Embedding the knowledge harvest preserves group intelligence
- Funders require absolute outcome measurement clarity
- Visual diagrams and maps reassure donors
- Paired harvesting roles reduce single-notetaker strain
- Silence and emergence permit creative space
Key Action Points
- Distribute the peer support and harvesting toolkit
- Experiment with peer assist methods contextually
- Employ data visualisations to demonstrate project value
- Practice the structural peer assist role distributions
References
Methodologies:
- Peer Assist Process
- Collective Intelligence Harvesting
- TRIZ Practice
Projects:
- Youth by Youth
- Got History
- Weaving for a Thriving Planet
Literature
- “Fear” by Khalil Gibran (poem)
- Introduction to NetworkWeaving by June Holley
Knowledge Base Categories 1) Funding & Strategy, 2) Weaving Methods
