Post Growth Ripples: February 2021
Helping foster a sense of meaning and belonging in communities across the world, and reflecting on how our work changes us.
Projects and partnerships
The impact of our Offers and Needs Market (OANM) Advanced Facilitator Training program continues to ripple out, as more and more trainees host their own sessions, bringing a sense of belonging and self-worth to people across the world.
This month, we heard from recent program graduate, Liz Hill, who has already hosted six Offers and Needs Markets in Australia. And at the University of Montana, Katie Epstein hosted an OANM online with 26 fellow students, and was amazed at how generously people shared. One man from Nepal who had recently moved to the area and got his driving license was gifted a used minivan for free!
Meanwhile, we’re pulling together a cohort of 60 people from Enough! in Scotland and the Kola Nut Collaborative in the US to take our basic Offers and Needs Market Facilitator Training program.
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The PGI in the media
This month, our work was mentioned in an article on Disrupt Development by Post Growth Fellow, Melanie Reiback, founder of the Post Growth Entrepreneurship Incubator. Elsewhere, PGI team member Adam Symanski’s article about how to build narrative power was republished on Resilience.org.
How our work is changing us
We were thrilled to find out that the PGI’s Director of Education, Crystal Arnold, was selected by 36x36 as one of four North American women under 40 shaping the emerging economic paradigm shift. Congratulations, Crystal!
As well as taking heart from how our work ripples outwards, we also like to live by our values and make sure that the change we want to see is happening internally. As part of this commitment, and as a constant reminder to check-in, each month we invite a PGI team member to share the personal impact of their work with us.
The PGI is unlike any company or organization I’ve ever worked with — in a good way! I feel valued but never pressured, and this gives me the space to be creative and productive in ways that are fulfilling rather than draining. The PGI’s focus on strengths means that I am never afraid to communicate both my convictions and limitations, so I feel empowered to play a role in decision-making and can ask for help where I need it. Our shared mission gives me hope for the future without having to shy away from the many injustices and challenges we’re working to overcome. I take this sense of balanced optimism and agency into everything else I do, and it ripples out from there.
— Natalie Holmes, Director of Communications.
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