Disrupting for Good: It’s majority-making, not matchmaking

I am in Vancouver this week and I have had three full days in a course on the Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations That Matter. It’s been such a privilege to participate and learn several methods and tools and also meet 50 great people. 

This morning, we learned about the Two Loops Model, a map of how change works in living systems, with one arc representing the legacy system that has to die, in order for the new system to emerge. This model acknowledges that new things are usually born out of existing things, and it all works a little bit better if you “hospice” the end of the dying system. ANYWAY, the two loops shape was taped out on the floor, and we were invited to go stand where we saw ourselves on the two arcs, and then find a partner and share some of our wisdom from that place on the arc with another person who wanted to get to that place on the arc. 

And I shared this: movement building is not matchmaking, and we don’t have to be 100% aligned with the people we are movement building with. Movements cannot be clubhouses if you want to get the people power to bring the change to fruition.

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