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Working systemically, relationally and with the power of "small and connected" to generate collective wisdom, stronger communities and systems change
Building on strengths and responding to interrelated issues across mutlple contexts
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Working to strengthen community agency -
balancing power between for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, small and large organisations, and the commons - all to further the common good
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Communities and our Earth are facing unprecedented crises and challenges including climate change, biodiversity loss, increasing concentration of wealth, community divisions, decreasing trust in our institutions, increasing homelessness, housing affordability issues, poverty, food insecurity and failing democratic processes.
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InCollaboration sparks and facilitates dialogue for systems change that acknowledges interrelatedness, contexts and complexities. For instance the current emphasis on the cost of living crisis needs to be balanced with narratives that acknowledge this is part of an extreme inequality crisis and billionaire crisis with the numbers of billionaires growing at an alarming rate at the same time as increasing homelessness.
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Winner-take-all approaches have not worked for our society or our planet. The profit motive dominates decision-making. Not-for-profit motives and the commons, the not-for-profit and co-operative sectors are undervalued. We need much more balance. InCollaboration emphasises ways forward that value our Earth and many unrecognised contributions, not only those that have a price in the market. ​​​
We connect ideas and issues for holistic and integrated responses, co-creating and adapting strategies for change as we do this.
​​We facilitate relationships and connections across organisations, sectors and movements, connecting the dots to reduce isolation, and bring forward additional resources, ideas, possibilities and synergies.
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InCollaboration builds and strengthens organisational ecosystems, valuing informal groups, co-operatives, not-for-profits, social enterprises, business and government.​
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We believe that "small is beautiful", valuing small, independent and local organisations and challenging the notion that bigger is better. At the same time we also work with large organisations. We enable connnected-up solutions, including connecting to the global.
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Sensemaking and connecting for resilient and inclusive communities
InCollaboration supports and facilitates connections for leaders who are working with their communities to increase community resilience. Community issues include increasing homelessness, housing affordability, mental health issues, change driven by emerging technologies, changing demographics, community conflict, environmental crises, and disruption to a number of our industries leading to employment uncertainty.
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We support leaders to be inclusive of marginalised groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally diverse groups, LGBTIA+ groups, refugees and people with disability.
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Sensemaking and connecting for economic fairness and the common good
InCollaboration connects leaders to initiatives locally and globally focused on greater cooperation and sharing and community ownership, recognising everyone has a right to food, water, energy, housing and social care.
InCollaboration builds relationships and ecosystems to support or catalyse initiatives in any of the above sectors to address the common good.
One of our projects is Catalysing the Sydney Commons Lab, which is building an ecosystem to support community-led initiatives for the common good.
Sensemaking and connecting for restoring and preserving environments and progressing regenerative ways of living
This involves reviewing patterns of consumption and recognitiion that increased energy efficiency has not led to a decrease in carbon emissions as consumption has continued to grow. We support decentralised systems and moving to renewable energies and models such as the circular economy. The climate crisis, rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, land degradation, water security, food security and species loss are are all part of what is often called the polycrisis.
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InCollaboration recognises we are in a time of collapsing ecosystems and joins with others towards adaptation and mitigation.