Even the term sharing economy has regularly been used to describe activities that progress the concentration of wealth. Companies like Uber enable everyday car owners to earn income by providing a taxi service. At the same time pay rates and conditions have been downgraded with the bulk of the profits going to a few.
There is a resurgence of interest and activity in cooperatives, organisations owned by communities or workers. Though coops aren’t everyone’s preferred way forward. We do however need to take action to cooperate more broadly towards a true sharing and ecologically healthy economy, with fairer distribution of wealth and if we are to effectively address the challenges we are facing. At same time cooperation isn’t always easy to do. Individual motivations, different cultures and approaches can be challenges for this.
While there have been important innovations from social enterprises the sector is challenged with its winner takes all approach, despite contributions from many others to the success of a single social enterprise. While acknowledging this broader context and our perspectives we recognise how we move forward is a big question and cannot be covered in a short session. However we are keen to begin this dialogue with the SFN community.
We will allow for some big picture exploration though particularly aim to draw out our personal motivations and challenges in relation to cooperation and competition.
About Johanna de Ruyter
Johanna de Ruyter is passionate about getting people moving and utilizing 
movement and action for expanding and strengthening communication. For over twenty years now she has been exploring the complementary relationship of communication and the performing arts. She has worked as an actor and collaborator on various award-winning theater projects both nationally and internationally. She is a long-term improviser, facilitator and trainer with Playback Theatre Sydney. For over 30 years Playback has been commissioned to facilitate their unique improvised and story - based communication forums for a range of organizations all over Sydney. As a theatre company Playback functions within a cooperative leadership model and practices consensus decision making. Johanna also facilitates training in Leadership Presence throughout the Asia Pacific region with The Ariel Group, a leading US and Australian Executive Training Company. Through her own company, Moving Communication, she designs and delivers her own experiential and movement - based Training, Coaching and Presentations for a range of clients.
movement and action for expanding and strengthening communication. For over twenty years now she has been exploring the complementary relationship of communication and the performing arts. She has worked as an actor and collaborator on various award-winning theater projects both nationally and internationally. She is a long-term improviser, facilitator and trainer with Playback Theatre Sydney. For over 30 years Playback has been commissioned to facilitate their unique improvised and story - based communication forums for a range of organizations all over Sydney. As a theatre company Playback functions within a cooperative leadership model and practices consensus decision making. Johanna also facilitates training in Leadership Presence throughout the Asia Pacific region with The Ariel Group, a leading US and Australian Executive Training Company. Through her own company, Moving Communication, she designs and delivers her own experiential and movement - based Training, Coaching and Presentations for a range of clients.
About Tirrania Suhood
is co-founder and director of InCollaboration which is a social 
change agency and consultancy that operates at multiple levels with a focus on collective impact to address social, economic and ecological challenges. She engages with big picture issues while staying connected at the local level. She works with organisational ecosystems, movements and leaders catalysing action in communities.Prior to InCollaboration Tirrania was the Executive Officer of a community-based organisation for many years and led the development and implementation of a systems and network approach to achieve collective impact for tackling social issues. This work involved collaborations across a range of sectors and engaged community, government and business. She also led a collaborative initiative that raised the profile and value of small community organisations and network approaches. The initiative, that many called a movement, was known as Voice for SONG (small organisations – non-government).
Venue: [We will be at UTS]
University
of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street.
Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the
atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.
Time:
From 5:30pm to 7:30pm sharp | No RSVP - Just turn up | Donation $5
Enquiries | Eoin Higgins eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684
Call for Guest Facilitators:
If
you have an idea or know someone who has an idea for a session at a
Facilitators Network meeting in please contact Eoin Higgins 0407 411 684 eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com
The impatient ones reach for the express path into an alternative way of perceiving – the psychedelic substances. But if you've ever had a dear pet you will already know that animals are great facilitators of calm and relaxation. Moreover, as will be demonstrated in the next SFN session, they can be your personal guides into trance states – drug free, safe, and inexpensive!
She started her professional life with a pragmatic choice of that time: Information Management, Process Review and Automation, and Organisational Change. During that time she became fascinated with the degree the human dynamic was influencing project outcomes. And she decided to learn more about that subject.... As she started her Master of Education in Social Ecology, she realised that however fascinating human-human relationships were, the human-animal relationships were even more generative. That was the trigger that moved her into her current career.
cross-cultural collaboration, inclusive design and facilitating design innovation to solve complex societal problems. She has over 20 years in design, education and startups in Sydney, San Francisco and New York developing award-winning communications and programs and developing the capacity of young designers and leaders. Vivien established and leads the FutureAging Lab, an interdisciplinary and intercultural design program between the University of Technology, Sydney and Tsinghua University, Beijing focused on developing interventions to issues of health and wellbeing of growing aging populations. 
brings extensive experience in the field of collaboration, tackling complex problems and open innovation. Carli has designed, facilitated and mentored on Innovation Labs, R&D Incubators, Hackathons and creativity workshops across South Africa, Europe, North America and Australia. She regularly teaches Creative Intelligence, Human-Centred Design, Entrepreneurship and Leadership at University - including being a resident facilitator at the UTS Hatchery - creating the entrepreneurs of the future. Carli recently established WE [Women Empowerment] Circle, designed to bring together a community of SHE-movers, shakers and change-makers to activate and amplify their visions and is a Founding Board Member of The Global Foundation for Emerging Women Leaders, dedicated to facilitating individual, group and organizational transformation. "Carli is like a power outlet. When you plug into her she will amplify your impact, creativity, reach and vision 1000 fold."
In this interactive session we will explore mini systemic structural constellations for organisational issues. If you’re interested in how systemic work is applied in organisations, this practical session will give you the opportunity to see how mini constellations – that take 15-30 minutes only – can help uncover hidden dynamics and obstacles that are impeding organisational outcomes, as well as insights into how to respond and move forward.
