Social Design Fundamentals

Understanding power and privilege for social designers

Using a simple activity to illustrate power…

Positive Deviance

Partnering with the gifts already present

Positive deviance (PD) is an…

The power of conversations

A fundamental for social designers

Please Feel Pain

Pain is not terrible. What’s terrible is to hide it in our hearts.

Cynefin Framework: Managing in Complexity

There’s more than one kind of complexity

Framing Design for Social Innovation

Design as a social process

Expressing our Needs

Practicing Nonviolent Communication

A language of Life

Exercises in nonviolent communication

Healing from pain is a process

The difficult mix of strong emotion and past pain