Towards Radical Learning

Since the middle of 2020 we've been reflecting deeply on our role in civil society at a time of multiple transitions and, as our friends at Dark Matter Labs have described it: ‘cascading crises’.

Prompted by the pandemic and its impacts direct and indirect, that meant an interrogation of our purpose, our practice, and the culture that supports both.

Now, as we approach the 2-year anniversary of the first lockdown, it feels timely to post some reflections on that process, how we’re thinking about ourselves and our work in 2022, and where we’re taking that next.

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Civic Futures: Story So Far Report

The Story So Far report offers a reflection on the first 3 cohorts of the Civic Futures Fellowship; commissioned by the Community Engagement Team at the Greater London Authority and delivered between 2019-23 in partnership with Koreo, the Young Foundation, and Dark Matter Labs.

Inclusive recruitment practices

With 15 years of experience delivering talent recruitment campaigns at scale and at a national level, we share practical learning and findings around how to create genuinely inclusive experiences to lead to diverse teams.

Spaces For Growth

In an ongoing collaboration with Graham Leicester and Maureen O’Hara from International Futures Forum, we explore the learning spaces necessary for personal and collective transformation in a complex, urgent world.

Platformation

Platformation is a new essay created together with Stephanie Sherman from Supervisions considering the opportunity to reimagine civil society organisational design for the 21st Century

5 Challenges blocking Radical Learning

Social change work happens through people, yet so often the learning programmes we and others are trying to design and deliver are facing some classic challenges. In the interest of doing work in the open and generate collective learning I wanted to share thoughts on 5 challenges we often experience here, as well as how we are trying to positively respond and overcome.

Spaces for Growth: A lean, flexible learning programme for social impact organisations

Koreo’s Founder & CEO Rachel Whale reflects on our organisational journey, as we share a new learning offer for social impact organisations.

Launching the London Engagement Lab

In March 2022 we are delighted to be launching The London Engagement Lab. Designed and delivered in partnership with the GLA’s Community Engagement Team, International Futures Forum, and Migrants in Culture, the Lab will be a year long inquiry into the next horizon of community engagement practice in the city and beyond.

As we relaunch our website with a refreshed description of our work and practice, we reflect on a two year process of reflection and learning where they have taken us as a team, and where we go next with our work.

Civic Futures: A Conversation with Eli & Ruth

We catch up with Civic Futures 2019 Fellow Eli Manderson Evans and Ruth Knight from the GLA about the collaboration that emerged from the pilot of the Civic Futures programme in 2019/20.