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Notes from the Field

Articles and personal reflections from the GWI team as they navigate their lives and their shared work.
By Micah
08.16.23
Debriefing is a part of our culture at GWI. As Susan says, “A regular practice of reviewing work together in a spirit of co-learning – rather than in a spirit of finding fault or placing judgment – strengthens a culture of learning and builds trust.”
By Hélène Lesterlin
07.17.23
I was asking myself: Is this the first summer we have had to contend with air quality hazards from Canadian wildfire smoke AND catastrophic flooding in our local counties and neighbor states? Then I heard that the ocean temperatures reached 98 degrees off the coast of the Florida Keys...
By Caitlin Dourmashkin
06.12.23
Last week climate change and strange weather patterns had a different idea in mind of what the start of summer means.
By Micah
05.05.23
Nate Hagens makes a strong case for choosing a different path forward. What struck me most, is that just how much the answers are rooted in love.
By Susan Grove
03.30.23
Death is on my mind a good deal lately. As part of a course I am taking, I have an assignment to plan the end of my life.
By Micah
03.15.23
The overarching theme of the course, Surviving the Future, was collapse: the collapse of the systems that uphold our current societies, especially looking at climate change as the initiator.
By Susan, Aja and Micah (GWI Worker Trustees)
03.13.23
We spend most of our time at work, so what better place than our workplaces to learn to practice democracy and work toward a Just Transition?
By Micah
01.11.22
Micah reflects on why pronouns matter and why we ask for them.
by Aja Schmeltz
05.20.21
The chronic blatant disregard for human life in this country is profoundly disgusting. With every news [...]
By Micah, with Susan Grove
03.10.21
Working as a part of a shared leadership team has impacted my life in more ways [...]
by Susan Grove
02.23.21
Shared leadership. Sharing power. Someone recently asked me what checks and balances the WSDNP model has [...]
by Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove
02.09.21
I needed that. It released something. We were in an all-hands meeting, and the relatively [...]

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