10 episodes

Being able to shift the paradigm on which a system is built or out of which it emerges, is the most powerful way to change it (See “Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system” – Donella Meadows, 1990). The purpose of this podcast is to make transparent the ways activists, changemakers and community-builders around the world are shifting from paradigms of individualism, competitiveness, domination and control, to ones of connection, compassion, courage and trust. Shift tries to name the principles and paradigms that we need to transform the world into one where everyone can thrive.

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Shift Jonas Gröner

    • Society & Culture

Being able to shift the paradigm on which a system is built or out of which it emerges, is the most powerful way to change it (See “Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system” – Donella Meadows, 1990). The purpose of this podcast is to make transparent the ways activists, changemakers and community-builders around the world are shifting from paradigms of individualism, competitiveness, domination and control, to ones of connection, compassion, courage and trust. Shift tries to name the principles and paradigms that we need to transform the world into one where everyone can thrive.

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    Shifting out of urgency

    Shifting out of urgency

    Sometimes it can seem as though there is no way to stop and rest, to enjoy life amidst the great unraveling. This is a guided audio journey for those moments, when you need a little reminder about how to make yourself a priority in your life.


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    • 21 min
    #8 [german] - Transformative Gerechtigkeit mit Sven und Kathi vom Kollektiv Radix

    #8 [german] - Transformative Gerechtigkeit mit Sven und Kathi vom Kollektiv Radix

    Content Notification: Es geht in dieser Folge unter anderem um den Umgang mit Gewalt

    Kathi und Sven vom Kollektiv Radix führen uns in dieser Ausgabe von Shift in das Thema Transformative Gerechtigkeit ein. Sie berichten uns davon, was falsch ist mit dem „klassischen Justizsystem“, warum es für von Gewalt betroffene Menschen oft keine Option ist sich an die Polizei zu wenden, welchen Prinzipien transformative Gerechtigkeit folgt, was kollektive Verantwortungsübernahme bedeutet, welche Bedingungen in einer Gruppe dazu beitragen, das Transformative Gerechtigkeit funktionieren kann, wie ein transformativer gerechtigkeits-Prozess ausehen kann, worauf dabei zu achten ist um die Bedürfnisse aller beteiligten am Schirm zu haben, wie Gruppen anfangen können mit transformativer Gerechtigkeit zu experimentieren und warum es sinnvoll ist sich mit dem Thema zu beschäftigen, bevor es zu ernsten Fällen von Gewalt kommt. In dieser Ausgabe von Shift wurde ein Haufen wertvoller Ressourcen genannt, ich lege euch stark ans Herz diese mal durchzuschauen. Das Thema transformative Gerechtigkeit ist super spannend aber auch viel zu groß um es in etwas über einer Stunde umfassend zu besprechen. Diese Folge ist also eher ein Überblick über das Thema.

    Ressourcen und Links

    Das Kollektiv Radix bietet eine breite Pallete an Bildungsformaten an, mehr Infos findet ihr hier: https://kollektiv-radix.at oder auf Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kollektiv_radix/

    “Emergent Strategy” & “We Will Not Cancel Us” von adrienne maree brown https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html & https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html

    “Toward Transformative Justice” – ein Reader der Generation 5 http://www.generationfive.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/G5_Toward_Transformative_Justice-Document.pdf

    Die Podmapping Toolbox ist ein konkreter Ansatzpunkt, an dem du mit deiner Community anfangen kannst mit Transformativer Gerechtigkeit zu experimentiern https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/

    „Disrupting the Bystander“ ist ein Buch über den Umgang mit Gewalt und vor allem sexualisierter Gewalt im Freund*innenkreis https://disruptingthebystander.com/

    Für mehr Links zum Thema, schau dir diese Folge auf meiner Website an: https://jonasgroener.com/8-transformative-gerechtigkeit





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    • 1 hr 14 min
    #7 [german] Bürger*innenräte und Dynamic Facilitation mit Martina Handler

    #7 [german] Bürger*innenräte und Dynamic Facilitation mit Martina Handler

    In dieser Ausgabe von Shift habe ich die große Ehre Martina Handler begrüßen zu dürfen. Martina ist Mediatorin, Prozessbegleiterin, Moderatorin und Beraterin für Bürger*innenbeteiligung. Sie war Teil des Moderationsteams des österreichischen Klimarates und hat jahrelange Erfahrung mit der Durchführung von Bürger*innenräten und dem Thema Partizipation.

    Wir unterhalten uns darüber, was ein Bürger*innenrat ist, die Methode Dynamic Facilitation, den Wert des Zuhörens, wie ein Bürger*innenrat zustande kommt und wie er abläuft, was mit den Ergebnissen passiert, Martinas Erfahrungen beim Klimarat und viele weitere Themen.

    Ressourcen und Links

    Hier kannst du mehr über den Klimarat erfahren: https://klimarat.org

    Hier kannst du mehr über die Methode Dynamic Facilitation und Wisdom Council nachlesen https://www.dynamicfacilitation.com/ https://participedia.net/method/1692

    Wenn du dich für das Thema Partizipation in Österreich interessierst, kannst du hier viele Ressourcen finden: https://partizipation.at/

    Hier findest du das Buch „Time to Think“ von Nancy Kline, in dem es darum geht, wie aufmerksames Zuhören unsere Kreativität anregt https://www.timetothink.com/books/time-to-think/

    Hier kannst du dich über das Büro für Zukunftsfragen in Vorarlberg informieren, http://www.denkwerkzukunft.de/index.php/inspiration/index/Vorarlberg

    Hier findest du Informationen über das Moderationsframework „Art of Hosting“ https://artofhosting.org/

    Lass uns in Kontakt bleiben

    Du findest die Videoversion dieses Podcasts hier https://jonasgroener.com/shift

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    Coverphoto by Mirko Mina on Unsplash

    Thememusic Music by Wataboifrom Pixabay


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    • 1 hr 24 min
    #6 - [english] Meetings, Collective Agency & Community Organizing with Jen Sandler

    #6 - [english] Meetings, Collective Agency & Community Organizing with Jen Sandler

    In this episode of Shift I have the absolute privilege of talking to Jen Sandler. Jen is an antrhopologist, activist, community organizer and facilitator based in the US. In her research she has been focusing on the role of meetings for social change, what makes a good meeting and why good meetings are so important for succesful social movements. We talk about what she has been finding about the role of meetings, some principles and practices for good meetings, community organizing, the conditions that create momentum in social change, the difference in conditions between the states and Europe and many other things.

    If you are interested in the topics Jen and I talk about, you might want to check out TheSTOKE Collective – a training collective for activists and changemakers, that provide skill development around social change. You can find them at https://thestokecollective.org

    Also I have a bunch of workshops planned around Collective Resilience and Grounding in Personal Intentions in the next view months if you are interested in those, you can take a look at https://jonasgroener.com/events

    If you want to stay up to date with this podcast, related blog posts and upcoming events, the best way to do that is to sign up to my Newsletter. You will receive a compilation of valuable resources directly to your inbox once a month. https://jonasgroener.com/newsletter

    You can find the video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/QjRtCLHtNto


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    • 1 hr 25 min
    #5 [english] - Shifting Collaborative Culture in Community with Pascal Hazeleger

    #5 [english] - Shifting Collaborative Culture in Community with Pascal Hazeleger

    In this episode, I have the absolute privilege of talking to Pascal Hazeleger. He works on solving complex problems through developing networked organizations. He is involved with the blue neighborhood economy foundation in Spijkerkwartier in Arnhem/Netherlands. The foundation is running a community center and many different projects in the neighborhood. About 10% of people in the neighborhood are actively involved in one of those projects.

    Pascal and I talk about why this community is so valuable to the people participating, how it is set up structurally, what challenges they are encountering with regards to organizational culture and bringing their collective vision into reality and how they are going about mastering those challenges.

    This is the first episode of shift, which is also on video. If you prefer seeing our faces and not only listening, you can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-LH1C_u4us

    Links

    This is the website of Spijkerkwartier where this project is located https://mijnspijkerkwartier.nl/

    And here is the website of the community center https://www.dazo.nl/

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    Ressources

    Here you can learn more about microsolidarity https://microsolidarity.cc

    I wrote an article with my learnings from the gathering where Pascal and I met https://medium.com/@jonasgroener/key-learnings-from-the-microsolidarity-gathering-428f54c75187?postPublishedType=initial

    Citizens by Jon Alexander and Work with Source by Tom Nixon are two books that were mentioned by Pascal. 


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    • 1 hr 15 min
    #4 [english] - Turning a Work-Place into a Purpose-Place with Mazin Jamal

    #4 [english] - Turning a Work-Place into a Purpose-Place with Mazin Jamal

    In this episode, I have the absolute privilege of talking to Mazin Jamal. Mazin is a fellow coach trained by the academy for coaching excellence, a trainer, author, artist, musician, activist, and thought leader in building a world where everyone can thrive. He is the founder and executive director of Holistic Underground – an organization that supports social movements and companies to bring principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to their work.

    In this conversation, Mazin tells us about his theory of change, the methodology Holistic Underground works with to train movements and organizations in JEDI principles which is called “purpose place”, some organizational shifts toward self-organization and distributed leadership they are going through at the moment, his perspective on transformative justice, and a recent trip to Sudan, where he visited his family there and got to support the local revolution and resistance against the military coup that is happening there.

    Links

    Find more about Mazin’s work at https://mazinjamal.com or his Instagram @mazinjamal_

    You can learn more about the programs and training that Holistic Underground offers and get in touch with them if you are interested in working with together at https://holisticunderground.org.

    If you want to stay up to date with this podcast or what I am up to, you can subscribe to my newsletter at jonasgroener.com/newsletter or follow me on Instagram @jonasgroener

    Resources mentioned

    The Ready is an organization that is working on designing and transforming organizations: https://theready.com/

    The OS Canvas is a tool developed by The Ready to better understand and re-design organizations. You can read about it here https://medium.com/the-ready/the-operating-system-canvas-420b8b4df062

    Holacracy is a governance model for the self-organization of big groups. You can check it out here https://www.holacracy.org/.

    Essentialism by Greg McKeown is a book about focusing on the really important things to be more successful in them. You can listen to the author introducing his book here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9x6D09AKBU


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    • 1 hr 23 min

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