Interdependence Works

Money that stays local. Food you can trace. Relationships that hold up under pressure. Three of the 25 conversations from our first Summit. Summit 2 is online Dec 2–3, $22 CAD for both days. interdependence.works/offers…

Most talk about fixing democracy jumps straight to new tools. In our hosted conversations, the first gap is simpler: people need room to practise listening to someone they disagree with. What helps you stay in a hard conversation?

The best conversations at our first Summit weren't the ones with the most agreement. They were the ones where people stayed in the room anyway. Summit 2 is online, Dec 2–3. What's a conversation you keep putting off?

A young tree grows better when it has neighbours to shelter it. People are the same. We do our best growing in good company, especially through a hard season. Who has been that shelter for you this year?

Rufai going from training to a first profitable harvest is the part we'd love to hear more about. What kept trainees going between the first lesson and the first sale? That gap is where a lot of good projects stall.

"Louder later" is the cost nobody plans for. We host live conversations so hard topics get a fair hearing before they boil over. What helps you start one you've been putting off?

The double bind is the useful part: people won't change while institutions stay put, and institutions won't change until people do. We start with small rooms of real conversation. Where have you seen a community break that loop?

Planting trees instead of digging trenches is a line that will stay with us. The bit about young trees doing better with neighbours around them is interdependence in one image. How do you match people who have land with volunteers?

Being divided against one another can start to feel normal. What helps, in our experience, is slow and simple: a live conversation with people who see things differently, where listening comes first. Who has helped you do that lately?