Between 2024-2025 Wasan Network partnered with Huddlecraft to bring a peer learning model to the community. The model is called a ‘Huddle’ – and we experimented with how they might deepen our learning on some of the core inquiries within our network, whilst seeding even more of a relationship-centred, collaborative culture in how we’re learning together.
Our intention was to bring a peer-to-peer (P2P) learning model to the Wasan network that could:
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Welcome! Wasan Network is a global network of social impact and philanthropy practitioners who believe that relationships sit at the center of social change.
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<aside> 💡 What is Huddlecraft?
Huddlecraft is an ecosystem of support for peer-led learning and change. We practice bringing people together in purposeful peer groups that pool skills, resources, learning and action. This practice — which we call huddlecraft — helps unlock collective potential to shape alternative futures.
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Huddles are peer groups of around 12 people who come together around a shared purpose. Huddles are flexible and can be organised around a place, theme or question, but at their core is a structured pathway that creates a culture of co-accountability, learning and action.
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Dive deeper into each of the Huddles:
🖼️ These images are generated using AI, with the Wasan Network illustrations and the prompt: “Abstract and playful. [Insert Huddle theme].”
Here are insights and resources that weave across different Huddles:
The Huddles captured their learnings in many creative ways, including by co-creating websites, podcasts and summaries. Explore their insights below.
Wasan Network is a global network of social impact and philanthropy practitioners who believe that relationships sit at the center of social change.
We come together around a shared inquiry:
How can we better understand, practice and advance relational approaches to lasting social transformation?
Huddlecraft is the practice of bringing peers together to multiply potential. We use peer learning to help people and communities climb steep learning curves.
Our learning model focuses on building strong relationships across difference, so that the change created can spread effectively.
Curious about applying huddlecraft towards your mission? Get in touch!
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