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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 Aja Schmeltz
03.27.20
Home. What does that mean to you? Is it a place? Is it an idea? Is [...]
By Caitlin Dourmashkin
03.05.20
A few months ago, our co-Worker Susan told us about Move Up, Move Up, a l[...]
By Susan Grove
02.06.20
In the conversations that swirl around being worker self-directed, here’s one of the most frequent [...]
By Micah, with Susan Grove
02.06.20
Personally, I think I’m good at playing the support role. I have played this role many [...]
By Terri Hall
11.20.19
A few springs ago, one of my friend’s daughters spent the night alone in the woods [...]
by Micah, with Susan Grove
11.07.19
Last February, I was on a panel discussing the Race To Lead Survey at Non-Profit [...]
by Hélène Lesterlin, with Susan Grove
11.01.19
I started at Good Work Institute seven weeks ago. It still feels unfamiliar, fresh, there’s still [...]
By Caitlin Dourmashkin
10.24.19
It’s not the shared leadership that is hard, it is the not-shared leadership. When we {...]
by Susan Grove
10.18.19
As a student and practitioner of facilitation, it delights me that in this new model of [...]
by Terri Hall
10.08.19
Learning a new model for stewarding our organization, including adopting policies, landing on practices that support [...]
by Aja Schmeltz
10.02.19
Like the moon, I’m going through phases in this process. When discussions started happening around our [...]
by Caitlin Dourmashkin
09.19.19
Getting started is always the hard part. You set an intention, imagine the outcome, and then [...]

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