PARTNERS IN CHANGE

Oasis Human Relations, Oasis Foundation & partners have been supporting meaningful social action for nearly 40 years

It is a shared commitment to social change - to learning and acting together in ways that deepen our humanity, strengthen relationships, and help build a more just and sustainable world.

Featured story:

Organisational development for Migrant Action involved work over multiple years to co-develop and co-facilitate the organisation’s Strategic Thinking Framework

featured work:

The Kindling Space offers coaching, workshops, training and retreats to young adults and the professionals who work with them

oUR UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION

We have developed a unique approach to
social change at the cutting edge:

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Generative spaces and networks

We convene and cultivate spaces where individuals, communities and organisations can make sense together, especially in times of deep uncertainty, navigating complexity with companionship rather than isolation.

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Weaving – not leading

Instead of positioning ourselves as experts or change-leaders, we act as weavers: connectors, convenors, companions, facilitators and cultivators of emergent responses. This relational humility is distinct and trustworthy in a landscape full of prescriptions and blueprints.

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Bridging systemic and situated

We offer a rare synthesis of big-picture systems sensing with local, grounded, and relational practice. Many organisations do one or the other - but few help people work fluidly across both scales.

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Imagination as resilience

We frame imagination and possibility not as escapism but as an essential tool for navigating collapse and metacrisis, building local systems, and kindling hope - a powerful rebalancing in change work.

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Practicing the future, now

Rather than just critique or strategy, we model practical, hopeful alternatives in real-time - testing and embodying the future in the present. This “practice as change” stance is both radical and deeply useful.

Who we are

Oasis Human Relations and Oasis Foundation work in relationship with a variety of partners to develop and pursue work under the umbrella of Oasis Social Change.

Together, we support people and organisations to navigate deep uncertainty through practice, connection, and imagination.

Explore our web of relationships:

Oasis Human Relations
Oasis Foundation
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Our partners