For years I tried to fit governance into boxes that didn’t hold it. In strategy roles, policy spaces and systems thinking work, governance often arrived as something static; rules, authorities, flowcharts, reform packages. But the more I listened to people and places navigating complexity, the more I realised governance isn’t something we design and deliver. It’s something we participate in. A living practice, a way of tending to relationships, responsibilities and possibility. I’ve sat in ro...
