As a culture designer focusing on rituals, I’d like to share several ideas that can help you practice psychological safety in your teams and orgs. These ideas came from multiple sources, including the Fearless Organization, Rituals For Work, and Multipliers, Psychological safety is a belief and a feeling that employees…

Pathways and practices to explore the hidden promise and possibilities of the liminal space… — The narratives, metaphors, paradigms, and structures that lay the foundations of the current reality are unraveling — unraveling at an unforeseen pace; nonetheless, organizations, institutions as well as social and political forces are continuing to operate in a “business-as-usual” mode. …

I have been working on rituals and organization design for over a decade. From these design projects and research, a new point of view has emerged: how we can use design to shape and grow better organization cultures. I expect this point of view to be helpful to anyone who…

Exploring Facilitation and Facilitative Leadership as core organizational capability to thrive in the VUCA world — “The crisis of our time isn’t just a crisis of a single leader, organization, country, or conflict. The crisis of our time reveals the dying of an old social structure and way of thinking, an old way of institutionalizing and enacting collective social forms.” ~C. …

Shared Market Maps, Forcing Functions and Investing into Small Units — Abstract What does it mean to adopt an Ecosystem-Driven organizational model in an effort to create an organization that can grow organically by validating products and being driven by the market? …

Compounding learning and constructing legibility This piece was authored by a member of the Dark Matter Labs team based in the UK as part of the #BeyondtheRules project and, as such, is written in British English and has particular references to contexts in the UK. This blog was written in September 2021 and reflects our…