Join our Creativity Practice Group for a rhythm of provocation and practice early next year. Details and sign-up: marcrettig.me/creativity-pra… Small group, serious play. Recover flow, practice play, shift your source. Connect attention and expression. Work with the difficulties.

Folks interested in teaching #socinn, social design, long-haul social pattern-shifting, you may be interested in the 2023 syllabus for our "Fundamentals" course. Starting the 12th year today (!!). marcrettig.me/wp-content/upl…

Here's a nice write-up of the "Design for the Inevitable" event with @Hannahdup and @IxDAPGH. What if we learned to include the exiled, shadow aspects of human experience in our work and life? Thanks to Raelynn and Ashley at the great @dezudiopgh. medium.com/@raelynnoleary/de…

You may not know my dear long-time co-explorer @Hannahdup has been diagnosed with ALS. This has deepened our conversation with loss, grief, and "stubborn joy" (at all scales), and highlighted the way most of us avoid this "craft" in life and work. Let's talk about it.

Thank you for the valuable framing. "What if we’re giving up loneliness? What if we’re giving up hopelessness? Those are the stories I’m trying to tell and the stories that I think will make us brave enough to make the transitions we need to make."

Tonight’s happy hour poet: Jack Gilbert.

Proud of this work. And fascinated by the way the work of assessment and evaluation is evolving as folks move their practices further into social complexity. We're learning and practicing our way in along with you all.

Thanks for the tools, @inthekitchenpgh! You said to @ you, so: Orange olive oil cake; lemon curd & blueberry compote; vanilla bourbon mascarpone buttercream; cumquat, gooseberry, strawberry & blueberry garnish w/ dried flowers (& shameless degree of inspiration from Aimee France)

Useful, inspiring, lovely.

Relevant to our interests, @svadsi faculty. Thanks Lorena and thanks Alex.

99 steps of progress. “The next big thing is a lot of small things.” And many of these aren’t so small. futurecrunch.com/goodnews202…

This Thursday! An hour of conversation about a story of practice, hosted by @reachnetworkHCD Theme: whole-community co-creation. Sessions so far have been sweet, light, friendly, meaningful. 32.75% presentation, the rest conversation. eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowerin…

Join this one-hour conversation centered around a story of practice, hosted by @reachnetworkHCD. Theme: long-term culture-shifting work. Sessions so far have been sweet, light, friendly, meaningful. Hope to see you there. eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowerin…

So many good events this month!

Thanks for this! For the last ten+ years @Hannahdup and I have been teaching "not 'solutions,' not 'system design,' but *pattern shifting* at @SVADSI. It's so great to see this gathering and learning opportunity. Finally!