The HOW

In diesem Gespräch zwischen Alícia und Theresa Fend, von Healthy Human Cultures, erfahren wir, wie man gesunde zwischenmenschliche Kulturen in Organisationen und im persönlichen Leben fördern kann. Es werden praktische Ansätze und mentale Modelle vorgestellt, um Stress zu managen, Feedback-Loop zu verbessern und eine resilientere Gemeinschaft zu schaffen. Theresa ist eine Facilitatorin und Communi...

In diesem Gespräch zwischen Alícia und Nicole Korlath wird die Verbindung zwischen Yoga Nidra, Nervensystemregulation und persönlichem sowie organisationalem Wohlbefinden erforscht. Es werden praktische Ansätze vorgestellt, wie diese Methoden helfen können, Stress abzubauen, innere Sicherheit zu stärken und eine Balance im Alltag zu finden. Neben ihren Kursen in Innsbruck hat Nicole auch diverse O...

In this episode of "Affectively" on The How, Alícia talks to French activist Sarah Durieux. Sarah shares her insights on activism, emphasising the importance of community organising, emotional engagement, and the need for healthy relationships within activist spaces. She critiques the dominant culture's influence on activism and advocates for a new approach that values the process of a...

In this episode of "Affectively on The How," Alícia engages in a conversation with Natalia Lombardo about the significance of action-oriented research within networks and communities. They explore the importance of understanding the systems we operate in to effectively implement changes. Natalia emphasizes that research should not only be about gathering data but also about making it acces...

I discuss with Sandra and Brendon about the emotional side of networks. Why are networks so emotional? What moments can they remember that were especially emotional to them? We start talking about the Fito Networks manifesto and how it grounded in emotion and we journey through their "careers" as networks weavers in different parts of the world. To me it was especially interesting to hear...

Michael Arnoldus is a CTO and organizational thinker with decades of hands-on experience in self-management. With roots in software architecture and agile practices, and a background in psychotherapy and meditation, he bridges the worlds of tech and human development.  In this conversation, Michael and Francesca explore the complexities and challenges of self-management in practice, in vastly diff...

Jaya Brekke is a strategist, researcher, and blockchain expert, mixing cryptography with political groove. She’s advised the European Commission, led projects on decentralized tech and digital privacy, and now, as Chief Strategy Officer at Nym Technologies, she’s crafting tools to counter digital surveillance. In this conversation, Francesca Pick and Jaya cover lots of ground: from discussing soci...

In this episode Alicía talks to Chris and Alex about the micro and the macro of....our society, basically! An abstract episode that ends up being very specific going through four examples that Chris and Alex participate in / work on the Ephemera Journal, Tzoumakers, the P2P Lab itself and an Energy Community. We talk about how emotions are material, our relational layer influences how we then prov...

This episode's guest is Michel Bachmann, global community weaver from Switzerland. His work in the social impact space began as co-founder Impact Hub Zürich, where he also led the transition of the global Impact Hub network towards a distributed organization with 100+ spaces across the world. Since then, has worked with numerous global networks to grow community and cultivate a culture of genu...

++ This is Episode 1 of the HOW's new season, themed Leadership Journeys and hosted by Francesca Pick (Greaterthan Partner) ++ In this episode, Francesca speaks to community animator, speaker and writer Jojo Spinks about her participatory placemaking work across the UK through the Interwoven network. We talk the viral format of the "Squilometer" based on gift economy principles, the Qu...

In this episode Alicía gets an update on the learnings of the Deep Adaptation Forum on their Diversity and Decolonising Circle. The discussion then focusses on Dorian's research and practices on Social Learning spaces. Specifically, Dorian names the 4 conditions that help people stay with uncomfortable topics and we dive into how to use social learning spaces to unlearn cultural patterns. And....

In this episode I invite back Tomomi from Emotions at Work together with her colleague Oriana LaVilla. We dive deeper and, in some occasions, more practically on what it means to wear the emotional lens at work. What questions can we ask ourselves? What practices can we engage with that will support us in practicing more emotional intelligence? We also get some of the latest learnings on Oriana&#3...

In this episode of Affectively Alicía interviews Emmanouela Mandalaki from a research perspective and JD Nasaw from a practice angle. Together we discuss the topic of embodiment, it contains the word “body” and, at the same time, it keeps being so abstract for me…Emmanouela and JD help me get into new dimensions of this concept and I make the classic mistake of wanting to get to very much the spec...

In this episode of Affectively Alicía interviews Ria Baeck, a long-term self-organising, collective presencing, and trauma-informed practitioner, as well as a coach and therapist.  We go back to the basics of hosting and self-organising by diving into “Circle Practice”. Ria walks us through the basics, common-pitfalls, dos and don’ts and we explore together the role of emotions in this key collect...

In this episode of Affectively, Alicia interviews our very admired fellow member Tomomi Sasaki. Tomomi runs together with other colleagues a programme called Emotions at Work. As simple as that…and so challenging that we even forget that emotions are with us continuously and that they can play in our favour if we learn to be aware of them and move through them.  Tomomi talks about the coaching fra...

In this episode Alicía talks with Dorian Cavé and Wendy Freeman from the Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF) about the Decolonising Circle they co-organised within DAF. Alicía connected with them to discuss the Wenger Trayner social learning model, but the chat about their learnings on the circle was so interesting that we didn’t get there… maybe for a future episode! The research for this podcast has rec...

In this episode of the Affectively mini-series on The HOW, Alícia has a conversation with researcher Bernhard Resch, exploring two of the main contributions of his research: affective oscillations and collaborative fantasies for affective control. Bernhard researched the network Enspiral and many other collaborative settings and has valuable take-aways from his efforts of bringing emotion and cogn...

In this episode of the Affectively mini-series on The HOW, Alícia has a conversation with Elena Denaro to reflect on the main insights and learnings from writing a first version of her academic paper. Alícia and Elena also engage in reviewing some of the main concepts present in the paper that can help you reflect on your own collective, network, community or self-organised endeavour. The current...

In this introductory episode, Alícia talks about what the mini-series 'Affectively' is and what motivated her to do her research and she introduces the concept of Affect. The research for this podcast is financed through a PhD conducted in the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia through a European grant managed and fostered by the P2P Lab in Greece. 🔎 Learn more at https://www.great...

People come and people go - the movement of people coming inside and going outside of your company, non-profit, community group, network, etc. is a vital thing. How do we onboard well? What does it mean to leave well? 🔎 Learn more about our people agreement: https://handbook.greaterthan.works/agreements/people-agreement 👍 Please share! Help these ideas spread 🙂 🔔 Subscribe to our podcast if yo...

What goes in a handbook? What doesn't? How can we co-create our organization's handbook? Writing a handbook for your organization that strikes a balance between enough detail to be easily understood and used on the one hand, and enough room for interpretation and creative adaptation is an art and a practice in it's own right... and one that never really ends! 🔎 Learn more about Greate...

When it comes to groups of humans collaborating and actively distributing their power and authority, size matters! In this episode of The HOW, Lyssa Adkins, Susan Basterfield and Francesca Pick explore different group sizes, and the what, the why and The HOW of facilitating each. At Greaterthan, we believe that the future of leadership is facilitative leadership - put another way, leading by facil...

Venturing beyond the conventional model of leadership - where the boss, the hero, and the visionary take center stage - we delve into a transformative paradigm shift towards a shared, democratized model of leadership. A model that empowers each individual, fostering a sense of collaborative culture, and promoting leadership development at every level. In this episode of The HOW, Susan Basterfield,...

Whether we're establishing agreements and building our org's handbook , or simply trying to understand reality before jumping to conclusions - we have to practise new leadership skills and continually articulate our organisational culture (without overdoing it!). We cover communication protocols , team agreements , systems thinking about the org as a whole, and more. Tune in to episode 2 o...

Introducing The HOW, Greaterthan’s new show and podcast on organisational change - the future of work is already here... it's just unevenly distributed. Join us and learn how to practise a new kind of leadership , where we interrogate hierarchy , wrangle with power and centralised decision making , and subtract ‘management’ from change management. In episode 1 we kick-off season 1 of The HOW a...