Wayfinding and weaving with Mila Aliana

Today, we are learning from Mila Aliana.

Mila works in the messy, uncharted spaces where complexity lives, across industries, sectors, coalitions, and multi-stakeholder systems, where things are no longer working and no one quite knows how to navigate what’s next. Mila tends to work at the level of patterns and relationships, helping people see what’s really shaping behaviour beneath the surface, not just what’s visible.

Her practice has been shaped by working across very different contexts, from government and global consortiums to sitting with indigenous elders, and Mila brings that into how she holds spaces for people to sense, relate, and move differently together. At the moment, she is closely involved in stewarding the transition of the Inner Development Goals ecosystem, staying with the tension between structure, culture, and what it actually takes to shift how we lead and work.

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In this conversation with Mila Aliana, I learned:

00:00 Intro - how we met and why I invited Mila Aliana

04:00 How do you become a weaver?

07:00 When we say system, it is relationships that weave together.

08:55 Time is my kin (family)

10:10 Wayfinding is the orientation.

17:25 Control is a coping strategy when we face uncertainty.

19:30 Wayfinding and weaving in the no-map territory.