For episode ten of season two, Tim and Tuesday contemplate what exactly we mean by the concept of power — intergroup, structural or systemic. How can we best share it, and invite more people to pick it up? How can we wield the power we have with integrity?

At The Outside, a great deal of our work as we help organizations and movements co-create change is the seeking and opening of more keys—individual ones as well as collective. Together, we wonder: if there’s a trick to good listening, could it lie in the vicinity of good inquiry?

For episode nine of season two, Tim and Tuesday explore the foundations they’re laying in change work. As practitioners, it’s possible to set up our own structures in a way that creates the DNA of the world we want — even when growth is rapid. How can we work together to enact whole new principles of business?

As the work calls us onwards, these are many layers of ourselves we integrate and bring into the room. This is a time of significant change in and all around us. So let’s take a page from Audre’s book, as always. Let’s gather together and connect all part of ourselves, our teams, our communities and organizations and rise to the occasion.

For episode eight of season two, Tim and Tuesday talk about the fix-it phenomenon we all share: on seeing a problem, we rush to fix it. But when we rush to solutions, we’re likely to repeat the very problems that gave us the challenge in the first place. How can we cultivate a new pattern of pause and examination?

As a young cooperative, the LifeSchoolHouse grew almost in spite of itself for the first two years. The LEADING EFFECTIVE MEETINGS course came about just as the team were contemplating how to be intentional — always purpose-led, always effective — to get the work done in the interest of emergent growth. Here’s what they learned and riffed-on…

In our New Year’s Eve episode for season two, Tim and Tuesday sit down with colleague Isoke Femi, who brings a beautifully enriching and unique perspective to the work of change. It’s a deeply inspiring transition from one decade to the next — and an invitation to open up to special magic in 2020.

Today, David Nish and Cheryl Beamon of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services Workforce Institute tell the story of how they’re designing a work environment to bring more voices forward. How can people-centred organizations shift their culture, focusing on the innate strengths and compassion of their people in new ways? If advocates connect with each other more, might they be able to work in a way that would bring true equity and social change?

In episode six of season two, Tim and Tuesday talk about how adopting or shedding labels — political, economic, ideological, identity — can give us access to change, but can also become limiting in terms of how we might want to grow. How can we become less attached and more open?

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough." —Eckart Tolle
Is it too woo-woo? We wondered about that. But no matter what you believe or practice, this is the season of reflection. We say goodbye to one year and usher in the next. We can’t help but appraise our effect on the world, or proximity to our ideals, and our dreams and to-dos for our next spin around the sun.

In episode five of season two, Tim and Tuesday venture into the heart of their change work: equity. How do we distribute power and wealth? How do we relate across lines of race, class, and gender, and how do we keep these considerations on the table in all of our work and in our working relationships?

BALLE — The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies — gathered some of the most brilliant minds in the world, both urban and rural, who practice macro ideas at the micro level. While the scope and scale of everyone’s individual work runs the gamut, everyone at BALLE gatherings shares one thing in common: they root their impact in real-life, beyond the conceptual or academic. 

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?

Today’s activism will only have an impact if it’s a bigger and bigger tent. We need people and ideas and voices of all sorts on all fronts. Whether it’s a shift in our politics, our food, our academia, our consumerism, our manufacturing, or our agriculture, Bioneers is a roll-up-your-sleeves What can we create together next? for people on the leading edge of change—no matter where, or from what angle.

In episode three of season two, Tim and Tuesday explore the often talked-about, always sought-for, and ultimately elusive ideal of balance. In our journeys to reach ‘success’ — to have the greatest possible impact for a better tomorrow — what can we bring to our daily life to protect and renew our energies today?

Sometimes, the past can be a teacher for the worse. If we’re looking for it, the past gives us plenty of evidence for why we should resist change (It’s failed before), protect the status quo (Let’s choose the devil we know rather than the devil we don’t), or dig our heels in with certain people, ideas, or organizations (We just don’t mix). But if we frame it the right way, the past can be a teacher for the better. The past can point us right.

For episode two of season two, Tim and Tuesday interview Jacob Watkins of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jacob has brought a remarkably different point of view, resulting in an incredibly rich field of learning for the unlikely trio.

This Thanksgiving season, take some time to make the most of every convening. Because the best way to show gratitude — as leaders of organizations, teams, projects, or movements — is to live it by treasuring the time and the value of others.

In the first episode of season two, Tim and Tuesday explore one of the most prescient requirements of equitable change: the generosity necessary to successfully working through difference. How can we draw out and celebrate such a critical ingredient when that ingredient cannot be forced, but earned?

This week, we’re cheering loud and proud for all the young people taking up space and making noise for their birthright: a livable and sustainable planet. Can any one of us make it happen? Nope. No way. But together, the mindset shifts and heart shifts are tectonic. Go kids go!