Talik worked with this international organisation – funded by a UK-US partnership – for seven years as they grew and established a global presence with over 200 organisational and state members, organised into continental regions and thematic sub-groups.
Helping the partners agree inclusive, demand-led operating principles at the outset, we coached and supported as the partnership culture flourished from this progressive base to affirm the same high-engagement, high-inclusion practices the world over.
Over the years our facilitators brought expertise in strategy, learning, group psychology and large group process to produce a series of three-day strategic learning events in locations as diverse as Thailand, Ethiopia and Dominican Republic. These high-profile collaborative events for 250 participants provided rich spaces for knowledge sharing, learning together and developing innovative programmes, policy and state-level interventions.
With a firm foundation in Action Research principles, the conferences brought attention not only to the technical challenges and solutions of climate action but also the personal, relational and cultural aspects through cycles of action and inquiry that valued live experience and development of multi-actor experiments.
Ultimately, having taught a sizeable cohort of regional change leaders and process facilitators to take on the mantle internally, our facilitators stepped back into a supervision and support role, realising the vision of local leadership that we had played a key role in originating.
