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Radicalize the Hive: What Bees Can Teach Us About Shaping Social Change [Webinar]
January 30, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Radicalize the Hive: What Bees Can Teach Us About Shaping Social Change
Webinar Date: January 30, 2020, 2pm – 3pm
Hosted by Farm to Institution New England and the New England Farm & Sea to Campus Network
Join us for a unique and interactive webinar, led by consultant and beekeeper Ang Roell, to learn about and practice building more effective collaborations. Taking inspiration from honey bees, a social super-organism, Ang will lead participants through conversations and practices designed to help us develop more intentional work by sharing power, building trust, and checking privilege.
Honey bees are effective consensus builders who know how to organize around a specific purpose. They achieve this by sharing power, working in collectives or teams to be more effective, and make collective decisions through consistent communication based on both scent and dance. We’ll look at several examples, and use story-telling and visual aids to explore the many facets of this super-organism and apply lessons to our own work in building a better food system.
This webinar is open to anyone interested in building effective collaborations; in particular, we invite participants who will be attending the upcoming Campus Farmer Summit, to be held Feb 22, 2020 at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. We’ll apply lessons learned from the webinar throughout the conference – and beyond!
Moderator
- Maida Ives, Manager of Farm Education and Operations, Book & Plow Farm, Amherst College and Campus Farms Working Group Co-Chair
Speaker
- Ang Roell, Organizational change-making consultant and apiary owner at They Keep Bees