Trust the process: the story of New Constellations
Caroline McGinn
New Constellations' Blog
A blog sharing notes and thoughts on our work as we go along.
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Listening to be heard
My introduction to New Constellations was when I was invited to Gemma’s house on Dartmoor to record some early thinking about what became, and in essence already was, New Constellations.
Reimagining organisations
"Nothing can be created outside until it is created inside first." Illarion Mercuiff We are living through a huge moment of uncertainty, upheaval, complexity, and challenge. Many of the existing ways of working within organisations feel at best dysfunctional and, at worst, vehicles to reinforce existing societal power dynamics. Meeting this moment we are in requires a radical reimagining and…
The power of the whole
Psychologically and politically we would much rather assume that the cause of a problem is “out there”, rather than “in here”. It’s almost irresistible to blame something or someone else, to shift responsibility away from ourselves, and to look for the control knob, the product, the pill, the technical fix that will make a problem go away.
The journey - a methodology for transition and transformation
I have written before about the beginnings of New Constellations. We are now in the process of putting New Constellations into a chrysalis to enable its further evolution, which provides an inflection point to share some reflections from our first five year cycle of work.
Celebrating five years, and preparing a chrysalis
Gemma, Iris, Jo & Lily: New Constellations co-creators
Creating global financial systems that value people and planet
In 2023, New Constellations collaborated with Megan Lucero, Emma Shaw and JRF’s Emerging Futures Programme to conduct a series of interviews with people across the financial system.
Design Principles to Guide the New Constellations Mycelium Fund
An experiment in transformative financial redistribution.
Mythic times
It feels like there is twice as much life happening in the same amount of time as there was before the pandemic, a by-product of so many things being cancelled and now booked in – with in-person meetings butting up against weddings and family parties, it is like living in a Netflix film at 10x the speed.
The Journey
New Constellations was born out of the recognition that we are living through a time of great upheaval, and out of the desire to create spaces in which people can reflect on what we are living through and consider how we should respond.