Episode 2.04: The Experiment

THE PODCAST: NOV 12 /19

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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.

2.04 —— 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.

  • 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.

  • Song: Stay High by Brittany Howard

 
 

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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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