The time for change is now.
Let’s create desirable worlds together.

Organizations and people motivated and inspired by purposeand strategy will do it in a responsive, comprehensive, and systemic way.

A CHANGING PROCESSS WITH AN APPROACH THAT IS:

A perception of the ecosystem dimension of our existence and the patterns structuring the entire system and our co-responsibility in it.

SYSTEMIC

A caring look at each subjectivity with emphatic listening and attention to uniquedetails.

RESPONSIVE

SENSITIVE

A constant search for a comprehensive perspective focused on processes and organizations where the parts and the whole reveal each other.

FULL

INTEGRAL

Perceiving connections between elements and projections of the whole system into the parts and vice versa. Contradictions and paradoxes often mark events. Sometimes, it might be even an interface between opposite elements, such as tangible and intangible. Order and disorder. Control and flow. Stable and change. And the circular causality.

COMPLEX

Institutional Development

To create desirable worlds requires changes in both people and organizations; but also in institutions relevant to society.

Institutional Development (ID) is one of the useful concepts fir this. We apply it here, referring to civil society organizations (CSOs).

Institutional Development represents the intricate dynamics of permanence and change that organize the lives of organizations, with their underlying cultural patterns.

Institutional Development is as a key reading for organizations, and it should include the following questions:

What is our essence?

Identity, purpose, and unity: Founding myth, path, vision, mission, and values.

How do we govern ourselves?

Legitimate exercise of power and authority and leadership: Governance, organizational design and leadership profiles.

What do we do and how?

Transformative action, method and scope: planning, monitoring & evaluation and learning.

What makes us cohesive?

Culture, daily life and change: patterns, beliefs and meanings established as factors of resistance and change.

How does our communication work?

Communication as a strategy: Shared information and narratives designed for public spaces.

How do we support ourselves?

Resources and sustainability: Mobilizing resources for sustainability.

Apresentação

Domingos Armani

Domingos Armani is a sociologist, Master in Political Science (UFRGS) and consultant in institutional development for civil society organizations (CSOs) for over 25 years. Through an integral, reflective and sensitive approach, he supports processes of change, simultaneously, of people and the institutions, aiming at strengthening both as pillars of an ecosystem of social transformation.

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