For the final episode in our Learning and Evaluation spotlight series, Tuesday and Gabrielle reflect on what they learned from our spotlight guests, how The Outside works with evaluation, and how evaluation can support the celebration of successes along the way while also holding up a mirror for what needs attention in the centering of equity.
Read MoreFor the third episode in our spotlight series on Learning and Evaluation, we talk to Dr. Gladys Rowe. We talked about finding your people, sharing visions, building foundations, undoing internal narratives, decolonial futures and indigenous resurgence. It’s a remarkable conversation. Enjoy!
Read MoreFor today’s second episode in our spotlight series on Learning and Evaluation, we talk to Jamie Gamble, one of the leading experts in developmental evaluation. We talk about power/strategy in how data is used and interpreted, which is a major concern with those interested in equity. We talk about the positive experience that evaluation can bring to change efforts, AND we talk neutrality - a concept that you know The Outside can be skeptical about!
Read MoreFor today’s first episode in our spotlight series on Learning and Evaluation, we talk to the indomitable Dr. Dominica McBride where we explore evaluation as a pathway for healing oppression, visioning and dreaming together what is possible, and how community can be involved our work. Exciting, right?! Tune in.
Read MoreThe Outside is excited to be hosting a mini spotlight series on "Learning + Evaluation" for the month of June. Hosted by Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly, we’re shedding a light on one of key pillars of The Outside’s work, methods to support action learning!
Read MoreJoin Tuesday and Tim as they deep dive into the world of Burning Man! Burning Man is a radical attempt to create and experience an alternative society; a place where human generosity, creativity, and hard work are leading us to a different future. Sound familiar? Listen in.
Read MoreJoin Tuesday and Tim as they reflect on their conversations with Meg Buzzi, Brandon Dubé, and Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé. These two sets of conversations offered up very different questions of change making, how to view the world, and how to orient toward the world in our work. We are inspired for what’s in front of us; we hope you are too!
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé where they discuss ancestors and new gods, the concept of slushy time, the soul as “between,” the human as a map, how we show up in the world, and Báyò’s invitation to all of us. This is a brilliant - in EVERY sense of the word! - episode.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by co-founders of the Present of Work, Meg Buzzi and Brandon Dubé, where they introduce the Present of Work, the importance of pausing and reflecting on the reality of what people do and who they are, what becomes possible when we are open to surfacing those conversations and refocusing on the relational, and how investing in teams has an enormous impact on leadership's ability to carry out their long-term plans.
Read MoreJoin Tuesday and Tim as they reflect on their conversations with Natalie Williams, Alexander Schneider, Tenneson Woolf and Quanita Roberson. These two sets of conversations brought forward some interesting insights into the different pathways toward racial justice, an exploration on the accepted dogma around emotional labour and what is ours to do. This is a juicy one, friends. Listen in and let us know what you think.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by long-time friends and colleagues, Tenneson Woolf & Quanita Roberson, where they talk about their friendship, their backgrounds and work together, what surprises them about working as a cross-racial, cross-gender team and ancestral healing. This is a beautiful one, folks. Tune in.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by Natalie Williams + Alex Schneider, advocates of social change, who talk about their work, via The Wellbeing Blueprint, of reimagining a country where everyone has an opportunity for wellbeing.
Read MoreOn today's special episode of the pod, Tim and guest host, Sommer Sibilly-Brown, are excited and proud to chat with Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Dr. Gabrielle Donnelly about their recently published book chapter in the "Handbook for Creative Futures." Their chapter "Taking a Radical Stance for Complex Joy in the Work of Shaping Change" was a journey of pure love and joy (pun intended). Listen in to find out more.
Read MoreJoin Tuesday and Tim as they reflect on their conversations with Alex McCann, Shaun Rutland and Andrew Grant-Thomas. Three inspirational leaders who are very different but who all talked about their children and their serendipitous journey to the leaders they’ve become.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by friend, co-founder and co-director of EmbraceRace, Andrew Grant-Thomas, to talk about the founding of EmbraceRace, its work in the world, the future of a multiracial democracy, advocacy and how we can talk (and listen!) to our children about race.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by Shaun Rutland, CEO and co-founder of Hutch, a video games company based in the UK and Nova Scotia. Together, they travel along a fascinating journey through his early life all the way to the founding of Hutch; including the type of leader he wants to become and the type of leader needed in the world right now.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by friend, past Activating Change cohort participant and Executive Director of the Organization for Nova Scotia Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship, Alexandra (Alex) McCann, where they talk about her background, dedication to create innovation-driven entrepreneurial community in Nova Scotia, sustainable development, the difference between tied and untied aid, and what it’s like to be a woman of color leading innovation in the province.
Read MoreIn our ongoing series about navigating transition (Part 1 here), Tuesday explores what to do when we don’t know what to do next. What happens when we aren’t sure of our next step? What do we do when we don’t know what’s next or how to get there? Where do we turn when all we really want is a crystal ball to tell us something, anything, about the future that stretches out before us, and crystal balls are in short supply?
Read MoreJoin Tuesday and Tim as they reflect on their "Authors Series" - interviews with writers Zaid Hassan, Cyndi Suarez and Richard Beard - who are each trying to change the world in wildly different ways. In this episode, they explore what provoked them and the various different angles each of these "big brained" guests brought into privilege and into the scale, scope and depth of the work that we're trying to do in the world.
Read MoreTuesday and Tim are joined by Richard Beard, author of Sad Little Men - Private Schools and the Ruin of England, where they deep dive into his book and the systemic impacts of leaders, trained in boarding schools, on our systems, services, structures, programs and infrastructure.
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