Here we are at the last podcast of season 2, episode #41. I finish up this season with a conversation that is really a continuation of the last episode where we talked about collaboration in the world of creating art. I am privileged to speak with Graeme Priddle and Carlie Starr on the gathering of kiwi and international artists at CollaboratioNZ in northern New Zealand. We explore what Collaboration New Zealand is all about, some of what Carlie and Graeme see as special about the gathering, and some insights into the creativity that comes in this unique collaborative setting. Please enjoy our conversation.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Graeme Priddle
• Carlie Starr
• CollaborationNZ
• Emma Lake Collaboration
• Book: The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
• Book: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Book: Silent Sprint by Rachel Carson

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

My guest today is Neville Parker, a sculptor from New Zealand and a keen supporter of a gathering of artists called CollaborationNZ. Today we talk about how he came into a collaborative mindset through CollaborationNZ, how art galleries work, and how Neville used a collaborative business model for his galleries.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Neville Parker
• CollaborationNZ
• The Artwonk Podcast
• Book: Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherford

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

It’s my privilege to speak with Sharon Fraser and Jennifer Chaplin, two of the three founding directors of an Australian consultancy called Clarion Call. Sharon brings her experience in the health system together and Jennifer brings experience from the service system. Both Jennifer and Sharon have a huge depth of experience and skill for creating spaces where community voices can be heard, and systems level change can occur. In our conversation, today we touch a little on what Sharon and Jennifer do, some of the key collaboration ingredients and examples, and then we spend some time unpacking the idea of collaborative governance. Please enjoy our conversation.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Sharon Fraser
• Jennifer Chaplyn
• Clarion Call
• Book: Rethinking the Fifth Discipline: Learning Within the Unknowable by Robert Louis Flood
• Book: Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust by Adam Kahane

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

I happened across Tai Lake and the Hawaii Artists Collaboration by accident, and I am so grateful that I did. In this episode, Tai shares his perspectives on the creative power of collaboration and the ability to bring together masters of the craft to grow their skills and their vocabulary. I found his enthusiasm for collaboration more than a little infectious, and I am grateful that we were able to connect.

Our conversation makes me think about the kind of people we bring into collaborative work and the level of maturity or mastery in an area of expertise that they represent. Tai talks about leaving your ego out and coming together to raise the state of the craft overall.

I’m sure you will enjoy this conversation with a master furniture builder on the Hawaii Artists Collaboration.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Tai Lake Woodworking
• Hawaii Artists Collaboration
• Danish architectEero Saarinen:
  • "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan" - Eero Saarinen.
• Emma Lake Collaboration
• CollaborationNZ
• Jake James - Blacksmith
• Henry Pomfret – There was no specific link for Henry, but I did find this link to a blacksmithing demonstration at the International Blacksmithing event in 2016.
• Lisa Geertsen - Blacksmith

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

I am speaking today with Thea Snow, Director with the Centre for Public Impact for Australia and New Zealand. Thea’s worked previously as a lawyer, a civil servant, and as part of the Nesta Innovation Foundation in the United Kingdom. In our conversation today, we talk about reimagining government and the role of collaboration in that reimagining, about storytelling, sense-making, and imagining, and about complexity in systems change. I’m sure you’ll enjoy our conversation.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Thea Snow
• Nesta – The Innovation Foundation
• Centre for Public Impact
• Book: Thinking in Systems, A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
• Webinar: Reimagining Government 2022: An ANZOG and Centre for Public Impact Series
• Australia and New Zealand School of Government
• Australian Centre for Social Innovation
• Cassie Robinson
• Geoff Mulgan
• Octavia E. Butler
• Otto Scharmer
• Hand Up Malee - Collective Impact Initiative
• Michael Quinn Patton on Utilization-Focused Evaluation
• Blog: The (il)logic of legibility - why governments should stop simplifying complex systems by Thea Snow
• Book: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
• Funding Program: Stronger Places, Stronger People
• Certainty Artifacts blog by Thea Snow
• Book: Radical Help by Hilary Cottam

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

This is a solo episode. Just me answering a few questions I’ve received from listeners. I have a chance to share some of my thinking around collaboration, my background, and some of the overlap between good collaboration and good leadership. Please enjoy.

Some links to some of the resources I mention during this episode:

• Scott Millar
• Book: Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate by Roger Fisher and Dan Shapiro
• Book: Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
• Book: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

For this episode, I am speaking with Pradeep U.N., who is the Senior Director at Microsoft for Inclusive Innovation and Solutions. Pradeep is also the founder of Truths and Insights, which is a platform to enable good conversations, share our truths, and inform decisions. Our conversation today is focused on Truths and Insights, where there is so much rich ground to explore. We talk about biases, inclusion, storytelling and so much more. I’m sure you’ll enjoy our conversation.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Pradeep U.N.
• Book: The Adventures of Asterix written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.

The conversation today is with Oliver Brandes on collaboration and modern water management. Oliver is an economist and lawyer by training and what he would call a trans-disciplinarian by design. He serves as Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, based at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), where he leads the award-winning POLIS Water Sustainability Project. He focuses on water sustainability, sound resource management, public policy development, and ecologically based legal and institutional reform.

In our conversation, we talk about the role of collaboration in managing water, concepts of collaborative consent, and the importance of good leadership. Please enjoy our conversation.

Some links to some of the things we discuss during this episode:

• Oliver Brandes
• Polis Project on Ecological Governance, University of Victoria
• Cowichan Watershed Board
• Nicola Watershed Pilot Memorandum of Understanding
• Book: Denying the Source: The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights by Merrell-Ann S. Phare
• Book: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers

Your host for the Cool Collaborations podcast is Scott Millar. Scott is the principle of Collaboration Dynamics, where he often works as a "peacemaker" by gathering people with different experiences and values and helping them navigate beyond their differences to tackle complex problems together.