This resource is short, easy to read and it is designed to help us pause and rethink how we gather, convene and co-create change. Developed with Sustain and Eating Better, it recognises that while our goals are shared, our priorities and lived experiences differ - sometimes sharply. Rather than smoothing those edges, this resource invites us to treat them as generative.
This is a resource for the doing part of movement building. It offers an accessible introduction to alternative approaches rooted in justice and equity, with links to further learning and prompts to support intentional event planning. Introducing terms such as decoloniality, the resource offers ways to shift how we hold space: slowing extractive habits, noticing who takes up room, welcoming complexity without collapsing into chaos. You’ll find practical suggestions for events, collaborative processes and tools that centre accountability, curiosity and connection.
Included is also a case study sharing the co-creation process and delivery of the 2025 Gathering Table Summit hosted by Eating Better, Sustain and AFN Network+.
This resource is an invitation, not to perfect the movement, but to disrupt it just enough that something more honest, grounded and transformative can grow.
