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I’m delighted to share that insights from the two virtual convenings I facilitated with SARELL are now being hosted as a case study on the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Digital hub. The convenings explored the nature of mistrust in social platforms, and proposed actionable strategies for rebuilding user wellbeing and trust in tech, including strengthening digital […]

(Credit: Graham Pullin) I deeply enjoyed my relationship with the Imagining Technology for Disability Futures (ItDF) team over a couple of years and it’s lovely to have had an opportunity to publish, something I always enjoy but rarely make a priority. The Imagining technologies for Disability Futures (itDf) programme explores how disability and technology will […]

I’m sure many of you are seeing your newsfeeds full of discussion about what is happening in Ukraine, and how best to help. That desire to help is a basic human instinct, and the reason why many of our current humanitarian organisations were formed, but alone it is not enough. We need to do good, […]

We had an exciting week of it, delivering an in house version of our Designing and Facilitating Hybrid events course. Up to 45 minutes before we were due to merge our Roomies and Zoomies into one beautiful whole, the Roomies were detained outside their building by a security crisis. Our ‘backchannel’ worked beautifully, and our […]

I’m preparing to facilitate a Theory of Change workshop tomorrow and I realise we haven’t widely shared our Framework story of change. We decided not to work on detailed outcome pathways, instead concentrating on sketching out the dimensions of change we are working on, together with assumptions and our own learning questions. Here’s the visual […]

Our collective of independent consultants is currently open to new members! What is Framework? Framework is a collective of independent consultants working almost exclusively with civil society organisations. Framework exists to foster the professional development of members. (The relationships we build within the collective lend themselves to joint working, but that is not the main […]

Hybrid gatherings have been happening for years, from the team meeting where we arrive and hear that ‘Mary is going to dial in’, to a company wide ‘all hands’ meeting where national teams convene in conference rooms around the globe. Many organisations are starting to plan for hybrid gatherings in anticipation of at least partial […]

For many employees, the annual review comes with dread. Some see it as a pointless exercise, others try hard to justify a pay rise. Within Framework, we have a commitment to conduct an annual review, but the format is flexible and self-directed. Refreshingly the whole intention is to make the process actually useful to us […]

Perry Seymour formally joined Framework at the end of 2020. He has brought new energy and experience that we have already begun to benefit and learn from and we’re very glad to welcome him! Perry has deep experience of designing and managing learning programmes with a strategic approach. He focusses on the learners. Jane Davies, […]

When I was 15, my Dad brought his work computer home for the weekend in order to finish something off. This was a different world to the tiny laptops we have today – he needed to put the back seat of the car down to get it all in the boot. I had a play […]