Recent Updates

  • A shared enterprise

    May 28, 2022

    Etienne Wenger’s Communities of Practice (1998) was a revolution in my professional life. I had been working with groups and…

  • Systemic constraints on capacity in the community environment movement

    Nov 3, 2020

    In 2020, CLEA has been finding ways to strengthen networks between the initiators in community environment groups. Previous years have…

  • Recent reading, Summer 2019

    Jan 7, 2019

    Some reading on systems at the start of 2019: 1. Nora Bateson on the current situation vis-a-vis systems change. Bateson…

  • Finding companions

    Jul 23, 2017

    It’s mid-summer and the weather is mild, the birdsong sweet, the bushfire season just begun. I’ve been hearing about the…

  • Progress with peer-to-peer learning in Landcare

    Aug 17, 2016

    It’s reporting time for the CLEA project, a 3 year Victorian Landcare Council project funded by the Natural Resources Conservation…