Article : A collaborative enlightening piece sharing Illuminate's insights

This is a reflective piece authored by the Learning Weaving team at Illuminate, drawing upon the many conversations, Cohorts, and work facilitated during June and December of 2022. ‘Learning Weaving’ is the term Illuminate uses to share our process to capture and pollinate learning across our network. This piece is an attempt to capture the key trends, patterns, and emerging questions that have arisen within Illuminate over the past year, by gathering insights from the many nodes and synthesizing them here.

Illuminate has created a number of ‘nodes’ in our emerging network. These include The Luminary Fund and Cohort, the Bridging Cohort, the Funders Node, River Delta systems change practitioner community, the SIGNAL Research and Mapping the field. Our efforts have been focused on bringing together people from diverse systemic practices.

The learning weaving process is led by Rachel Sinha and Tatiana Fraser, from The Systems Sanctuary and Anna Birney from The School of System Change. They have worked closely alongside the Illuminate core team; Maricela and Luis Alejandro Tapia, and have been guided by the Illuminate Steward Group.