Latest news, blog posts and articles written by Oasis co-directors and associates. Topics include peer working, collaboration, leadership, organisational development, resilience and wellbeing.
The official UN Climate Talks, known as the COP (Conference of Partners) is preceded by a Conference of Youth, known as the COY. This is a UN sponsored event that here in Paris has brought together 5,000 young people from around the world.
My facilitation career started with co-facilitation. I was invited by Chris Taylor to run the People, Planet and Purpose programme at Oasis. It seemed an excellent idea. I had been thinking of changing jobs and co-facilitation would give me an easy way in a new path, without much pressure of handling every decision on my own.
Shaping Sustainable Futures, a partnership event between Oasis and Triodos Bank was held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds last month.
The pictures of tiny Aylan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey seemed to change the public mood towards the Refugee Crisis overnight. This was a personal tragedy which touched the public heart and caused much of the press to perform an abrupt U-turn in its coverage.
We have new neighbours! In meeting them, I have been reflecting on the power and pleasure of good ‘contacting’ in the Seven Stage Model and what it takes for us to create good beginnings in new relationships.
A participant's view of her experience developing as a coach on an Oasis programme.
At Oasis, we are currently engaged in some exciting social change projects. As a result, we have had the opportunity to meet and work with people who are incredible catalysts for community change.
Values guide our choices, the way we behave and make decisions, they influence our emotions and the way we frame and respond in our conversations.
I grew up in a house full of voices. A radiogram, remember those? If you’re over 40 years old the likelihood is that you will! It was nothing sophisticated, but it was a revelation to us, permanently tuned to Radio 2.
How Cooperative Inquiry works, from initiation, through the phases of the inquiry process, cycles of research and implementation in the world, to outcomes.