Find The Outside 2.04: The Experiment: On Moving From Starting To Building: Behind-The-Scenes Of Change Work Growth
In episode four of season two, Tim and Tuesday explore the nature of moving from a start-up mindset to next-phase growth. As enthusiastic prototypers and experimenters, how do we know one phase is done and it’s time to capture learning and institutionalize? When do we call it, and how do we grow?
Together, Tim Merry and Tuesday Ryan-Hart are THE OUTSIDE—systems change and equity facilitators who bring the fresh air necessary to organize movements, organizations, and collaborators forward for progress, surfacing new mindsets for greater participation and shared impact.
2.03 —— SHOW NOTES
- Tues: We started The Outside eighteen months ago with the goal to experiment for two years to see what would happen.
- Tim: One experiment is done and the next one begins—an increase in scale, sophistication, breadth of relationships drawn into do the work. Now, we want to start building infrastructure that’s an investment into the next five years.
- Tues: A big part of the experiment: could we build our work around systems change with equity at the centre?
- Tim: We’ve received a lot of feedback over the years as to the potency of that [our] partnership. We wanted to take this to another level—a deeper commitment to one another and to the learning between us.
- Tim: We have three long-term, systems change efforts that are in different stages. We’ve realized that The Outside is with clients for a period of 2-5 years. We’re there to help things to get unstuck, lifted and moving.
- Tues: We don’t parachute in… but it’s not a long-term thing. Our role is to help you get unstuck, get things moving and build a capacity. This is what we’ve learned. We did not know this 18 months ago.
- Tim: We’re trying to build an ecosystem of different apps and practices that enable us to function effectively as an organization. We are working with a tool called monday.com which allows us to list all of our activities, track movement, have conversation, give each other feedback, attach documents and links. It’s basically a project management tool for across the organization. We also use whatsapp.com, slack.com and zoom.com. This is the infrastructure of how we function. On another level, we use programs like waveapps.com and xero.com to get a financial overview of how the organization is evolving.
Song: Stay High by Brittany Howard
Poem: Time to awaken, an original by Tim Merry (one of the first poems Tim performed!)
We all be learners and teachers
We don't need no preachers
To find the whole
soul
force
Of course!
It is like riding a horse
remaining in the saddle
even when up shit creek without a paddle.
Be yourself
Everyone else is taken
No point fakin
The only person you're foolin is youself
You already got all the wealth
Don't need to search no more
Knocking door to door
Cause its all in the place you was born in
No more stallin'
Listen loudly to the callin'
Why you here?
It ain't nothing to do with fear
That much is clear.
I must confess
my greatest fear was success
Daring to shine bright
Get into the line of sight
Stepping into the spotlight.
I trained for years
To be on stage and hide my fears
In the character of another
Always under cover
Never truly the deeper me
Time to see
Be free
Be
Now
Fear no more
I am sure
I have felt the
Whole
Soul Force
Course
Through my veins
I know what it means to be sane
Living in partnership with my brain
My body and blood
And the un-nameable flood
Of realisation
Be Self
Everyone else is taken
It is time to awaken.
Are you stirred and shakin'?
Are you quakin'?
If not why not?
Take a look around
The world is calling to become profound
The messages loud and clear
Drop the fear
The time is now
The place is here.
It always the occasion
Don't get lost in the alien invasion
Take action
to let go of distraction
Feel the heart
In the breath of the now
Kaboom kapow
Like a hit on head
Sit up in bed
The nightmare is over
You just found the four leaf clover
Ego move over
I am getting on my horse
The whole
Soul
force of course!
No more fakin'
be Self
everyone else is taken
It's time to
Awaken.
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Duration: 29:07
Produced by: Mark Coffin @ Sound Good Studios
Theme music: Gary Blakemore
Episode cover image: source
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