Part 1 and part 2 of this article. When ideas meet action and get messy, stories help make sense of things. The story of decentralised organisation building feels like it is still very much getting started. As the number of experiments grows, so does the noise. …

Like any organic system, Enspiral evolved and changed constantly. There was no working structure out of the box. What served in the beginning didn’t serve through growth stages and is different from what exists today. If you’re building a DAO or web3 ecosystem, hopefully some of the things we learned…

In 2010 I stumbled across a ‘big idea’. In the decade since, building out this idea has changed how I earn a livelihood, build a career, engage in activism, community and orientate around purpose. It changed my life. The idea? A group of people exploring new and different ways of…

This post was originally published here on betterworktogether.co. Stay in touch as we curate and share tools, methods and stories from the frontiers of collaboration and organisation building at https://do.betterworktogether.co/ Back in early 2019 (feels like decades ago…) a group of us from Enspiral published Better Work Together, a book…

Why I really wanted to write a book with Enspiral This lofty statement was on the website of Enspiral when I first stumbled across them in 2011. I showed up to the community really wanting to write a book (but not really sure how). …

We’ve opened pre-sales for the first Enspiral co-authored book on Pledge Me here: https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/5665-better-work-together-the-book Back in 2012 I showed up to Enspiral with some hazy, pretty vague ideas about launching books. Basically, I had more than a few rants to anyone who would listen that Enspiral should be doing… …

This short blog post announces the release of the Low Carbon Challenge 2017 reflections report. To skip straight to the report, click here. As 2017 scrolls out of our lives, Planet Earth leaves us some interesting challenges and opportunities to reflect on…. The past 365 days have generated more record…

Enspiral is not alone. We are part of a global movement of people who are using their time, talents and the technology of today to challenge, re-imagine, and improve the way we work together to serve us better as people, as communities and enable us to do more work that…

Over the past 5 years Chalkle has been testing new ways of using business models and technology to enable more Adult Education to happen in New Zealand. As co-founders and business owners we are moving on from working in this area. This post was written collaboratively with Chalkle co-founder Silvia…