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Todd BattistelliCW: US politics, coalition building, the Democratic Party (from a viewpoint that engages, not rejects, electoral politics)

Tom TuddenhamSo, we're building an open-source Theory of Change platform in public, starting with our initial musings.<a href="https://www.eventidesystems.com/toc-platform-starting-at-the-start/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eventidesystems.com/toc-platform-starting-at-the-start/</a>Any feedback welcome.<a href="https://ruby.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a>

Todd BattistelliReading Solidarity by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix and reflecting on timeframes and scales of change.When bad things happen at scale, what local good are we doing for each other?If we can’t immediately end the greatest threats we face, we can immediately engage the challenges of working with those closest to us, setting out to sustain first steps toward long-term solutions.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmReading</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#solidarity</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coalition</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dialogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialogue</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/facilitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facilitation</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#change</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a>

Todd BattistelliIt’s more than a little dismaying to reflect on the number of people whose theory of change is “people have to do things my way.” <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dialogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialogue</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/deliberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deliberation</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/facilitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facilitation</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coalition</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a>

Todd Battistellipolitics, organizing

Sabine.PahlReally interesting bigger picture talk on next generation of environmental exposure models by <a href="https://mas.to/@samharrison7" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@samharrison7</a> at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SETAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SETAC</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vienna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vienna</a>, from monitoring using <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CitizenScience</a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Modelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Modelling</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Visualisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Visualisation</a> including a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a> 👍 "It's important to engage with other disciplines"

Todd BattistelliThis works on several levels. For example, allies who—just as in the caption—are nowhere to be seen.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a>

Todd BattistelliOne of the many challenges of working to build coalitions:- Person A: We need to improve how we organize for Y, bringing more people into active support. - Person B: I already support Y.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#change</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a>

Xamanismo Coletivo"How, Milton [Friedman], do you propose to convince the vast majority of people that they should settle for being forelock-tugging plebs, groveling before their social betters for the chance to scrub their toilets?" <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MiltonFriedman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MiltonFriedman</a> had an answer: "In <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/timesofcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#timesofcrisis</a>, ideas can move from the fringe to the center in an eyeblink. Our job is to keep good ideas lying around, in anticipation of that crisis." Friedman was a monster. But. He had a hell of a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/theoryofchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theoryofchange</a>." <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/friedmanite/#oil-crisis-two-point-oh" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/friedmanite/#oil-crisis-two-point-oh</a>

Todd BattistelliAlways a good time to revisit these thoughts from adrienne maree brown, the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, and the Jemenez Principles:Disagreement and conflict are inevitable in coalition work, and methods for working through those inevitabilities can be built into coalition processes.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dialogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialogue</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coalition</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a><a href="https://fromtherostra.com/2024/05/14/the-principles-of-working-together/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fromtherostra.com/2024/05/14/the-principles-of-working-together/</a>

Todd BattistelliIf entryism didn’t work, organizations wouldn’t have such wide-ranging and effective immune responses to suppress internal dissent (a thread).<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OrganizationalCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OrganizationalCommunication</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#change</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/facilitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facilitation</a>

Todd BattistelliSomething I appreciate in Rose’s work is a commitment to speaking of a better world that we have not yet made real and to the long-term work required:“I said some years ago, when laying our claims before the legislatures, ‘I know you are not prepared to give us all we ask, but we claim all our rights. We ask for no more; we can be satisfied with not less. yet we will take what you are prepared to give us, and claim the rest.’”<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a>

Todd BattistelliA complement to “don’t feed the trolls” is “what we pay attention to grows,” which I first encountered while reading adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.In turning attention away from trolls, we can turn it toward the practices of care through which we build resilient communities able to guide change.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/facilitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facilitation</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a>

Brian C. Martinson, PhD<a href="https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@amydiehl</a> Soooo many efforts seem aimed at trying to shape org member attitudes, which is really *backwards.* Rather, change the org climate by setting clear expectations about things like what are and aren't appropriate interpersonal interactions. This will then shape behaviors. Attitudes and intentions will follow. People don't have to be enlightened to be required to behave better. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SocialControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialControl</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a>

Cory DoctorowThis week on my podcast, I read my recent <a href="https://me.dm/@medium" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@medium</a> column, "Ideas Lying Around: Milton Friedman was a monster, but he wasn’t wrong about this," which I describe a <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a> for unrigging markets, addressing the climate emergency, building worker power and fixing the imbalance between news publishers and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a>:<a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/ideas-lying-around-33a28901a7ae" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://doctorow.medium.com/ideas-lying-around-33a28901a7ae</a>1/

Tim GasperakI'm interested in:<a href="https://spore.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sustainability</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Complexity</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Epistemology</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/GregoryBateson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GregoryBateson</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/WarmData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WarmData</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Design</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/DesignResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DesignResearch</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Ethnography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ethnography</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Innovation</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ServiceDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ServiceDesign</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/StrategicDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StrategicDesign</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/TransitionDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TransitionDesign</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/UXdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UXdesign</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Futures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Futures</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Foresight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Foresight</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/ChangeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChangeManagement</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psychology</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colorado</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Boulder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boulder</a><a href="https://spore.social/tags/Climbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Climbing</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cycling</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/BikePacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BikePacking</a>

Willem de Vlaming 🌐Hello I’m new on Mastodon Some of my fields of interest<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChangeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChangeManagement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coaching</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Consultancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Consultancy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evaluation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Evaluation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Leadership</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OrganizationalDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OrganizationalDevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Policy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PolicyResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PolicyResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SolutionsFocus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolutionsFocus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Supervision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Supervision</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheoryOfChange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Writing</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Painting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onderwijs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onderwijs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/schrijfcoaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#schrijfcoaching</a>

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