Co-Creation: Not Just Another Focus Group Co-operative vs co-operative | Conservative Co-operative Movemen How could co-operativism, a movement so closely associated with the Labour Party, be adopted so enthusiastically by the centre-right? According to Jesse Norman - the affable ex-director at Barclays and the Tory parliamentary candidate tasked with chairing it - the two are not mutually exclusive. "There's no reason why co-ops are themselves an intrinsically left wing idea - quite the opposite," he says. "What a co-op is, what it says to people is: 'You are all equal, by your hard work you will succeed'. "Co-operatives rebut the idea of a leading role for the state. "The duke in his castle and the average Joe in their house - if they want to benefit from the co-operative, they have to work alongside each other." Co-operatives are organisations which are owned by their members and run for their benefit. Those ideas, rooted in the success of the Rochdale co-operative shop opened in 1844, were about practical self-help. "The teachers, they feel more collegial. His CV is varied.
Visual Facilitation at Connecting for Change 2009 | Connecting f Mariah Howard and Avril Orloff visually facilitated the Connecting for Change Dialogue. On visual facilitation, Mariah and Avril shared the following: “They say a picture is worth a thousand words - and graphic recorders work on creating the "big picture" both literally and figuratively, combining words with pictures, symbols and other imagery to create a visual representation of ideas as they unfold in dialogues, meetings and other live conversations. The value of graphic recording goes well beyond the "wow" factor of creating a pretty picture. When a meeting or presentation is visually mapped, our very process of thinking becomes visible. We see our ideas take shape, and we see the relationships among them, enabling us to draw connections and build on each other’s ideas. The Invitation Emerging Questions Perserverance Reflections Cafe Harvest Learning Journey