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An evening of connection, joy, and fortification to mark GWI’s tenth birthday!
June 21, 2025
An evening of connection, joy, and fortification to mark GWI’s tenth birthday!
June 21, 2025
An evening of connection, joy, and fortification to mark GWI’s tenth birthday!
June 21, 2025
An evening of connection, joy, and fortification to mark GWI’s tenth birthday!
June 21, 2025
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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.
Notes from the Field: What is Home?
By Aja Schmeltz
03.27.20
Home. What does that mean to you? Is it a place? Is it an idea? Is [...]
Notes from the Field: Move Up, Move Up
By Caitlin Dourmashkin
03.05.20
A few months ago, our co-Worker Susan told us about Move Up, Move Up, a l[...]
Notes from the Field: Is Your Work Slower?
By Susan Grove
02.06.20
In the conversations that swirl around being worker self-directed, here’s one of the most frequent [...]
Notes from the Field: Learning to Take the Lead
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 [...]
Notes from the Field: Keeping the Fire Burning
By Terri Hall
11.20.19
A few springs ago, one of my friend’s daughters spent the night alone in the woods [...]
Notes from the Field: Black Executive Director Pipeline
by Micah, with Susan Grove
11.07.19
Last February, I was on a panel discussing the Race To Lead Survey at Non-Profit [...]
Notes from the Field: Where the Air is Fresh
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 [...]
Notes from the Field : Autonomy in the Land of Shared Leadership
By Caitlin Dourmashkin
10.24.19
It’s not the shared leadership that is hard, it is the not-shared leadership. When we {...]
Notes from the Field: I Believe in Process
by Susan Grove
10.18.19
As a student and practitioner of facilitation, it delights me that in this new model of [...]
Notes from the Field: More In-Person Meetings? Good!
by Terri Hall
10.08.19
Learning a new model for stewarding our organization, including adopting policies, landing on practices that support [...]
Notes from the Field: Phases of Transition
by Aja Schmeltz
10.02.19
Like the moon, I’m going through phases in this process. When discussions started happening around our [...]
Notes from the Field: Why am I Distracting Myself?
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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