I’ve been awakening to the power of visuals to help teams with decision-making.
Too often, we don’t have a common mental model and end up talking past each other. This is where I’ve found myself inside my own organization more often than I’d like to admit recently.
Today, Max Harper came to our Shared Ownership workshop and started illuminating a path forward. I put together this 10 min recap video covering a few topics:
+ Why think about power?
+ Why mapping and visualization tools might help?
+ How might it help you with group decision-making?
So grateful
- for Jennifer Bryant for her leadership on this Week 2 of our workshop on Power & Systems & Leverage.
- For Max Harper for your fearless leadership in this visual strategy arena and humbling patience in working with me.
- And for Elizabeth Garlow Nathan Schneider Doug O’Brien Dr. Dale E. Hartz Boris Sigal Todd Leveretteand Philip Reeves for your support and co-creation of this workshop space that is leading to new insights for me and a deep sense of excitement about what’s emerging at intersection of Community Purchasing Alliance and the broader #community organizing #Coop & #SharedOwnership Movements
Here’s Max in our Workshop today:
Here is the google doc that gives an outline of the session Max gave today.
Here’s some of what it’s helping me with:

Here’s the 10-min recap video:
Thanks to all of our Shared Ownership Workshop participants for helping bring this into life.