The Value Web

The Value Web

The Value Web is relaunching and opening its doors. Join us!

This is not just the start of a new website—it’s an open invitation to co-shape the next chapter of The Value Web.

This new chapter builds on the legacy of Matt and Gail Taylor, whose pioneering work in large-scale collaboration and participatory design laid the foundation for The Value Web many moons back.

We are both honoring that legacy and building upon it—bringing this lineage into a new era shaped by new technologies, urgent global challenges, and a growing movement of people committed to connect, learn, experiment, and grow.

We are no longer a service-delivery organisation. We are evolving into a neutral platform and global community advancing the art and practice of wise decision-making and process activism rooted in the MGTaylor method and many other adjacent, complementary approaches.

And we need you!

Whether you are a long-time collaborator or just discovering us, we are looking for committed members and bold builders willing to lead and contribute to the next evolution of The Value Web.

We don’t have all the answers! But we believe in learning together, designing experiments in process activism, and advocating for wise decision-making.

Together, we can decide to do better.
Welcome to the home of process activism and collective wisdom.
We are a global community reimagining how the world decides.

Advocating for hundred-year decisions in Service of Life

The problems of the modern world are complex, interconnected, and rapidly evolving. Yet, the way we make decisions across governments, businesses, and civil society remains rooted in models built for a different era.

In an age of uncertainty and unintended consequences, we believe a new standard is needed: decision-making that is inclusive, adaptive, collaborative, and wise.

We need ways of working that draw from collective knowledge, foster shared responsibility, and allow for the emergence of something greater than the sum of its parts—collective wisdom.

Advancing the art, science, and practice of wise decision-making

The Value Web is a global community of process activists, facilitators, designers, coaches, artists, scientists, technologists, and systems leaders committed to evolving how decisions are made.

Grounded in decades of experience with multi-stakeholder dialogue, collaborative and emergent design, and systems thinking, we are building a platform for learning, experimenting, and advocating together.

Join us as we learn, practice, share, and advocate for a new set of standards and methods for complex decision-making to tackle the interconnected, intractable, high-stakes issues of our time.

As part of our evolution, we are shifting from delivering services to cultivating community and capacity through three interconnected streams of engagement:

Academy
Growing the capacity of process activists through training, mentorship, and shared learning.
Assembly
Convening our global community to connect, experiment, and shape this evolving field together.
Advocacy
Influencing systems, institutions, and public discourse to elevate the standards of wise decision-making.

Join Our Community and Shape Our Collective Future

Whether you’re a facilitator or a community builder, a teacher or a technologist, a student, a storyteller, a systems thinker, or someone who simply knows there must be a better way for how decisions are made — no matter how young or old — you belong here.

The Value Web is your home for shared learning, deep practice, and catalytic connection.

As part of our global community, you’ll gain access to:

  • Workshops and learning journeys
  • A living body of knowledge
  • Exclusive gatherings and assemblies
  • A vibrant network of fellow practitioners and pioneers

→ Join us now
and become part of a movement shaping the future through process activism and collective wisdom.

Join The Learning Community

Academy

The Academy is where we put process activism into action—learning how to design and lead collaborative processes that help groups face complexity and make wiser decisions together.

It serves as a learning and development hub for everyone in our community to:

  • Explore innovative and wise approaches to decision-making
  • Build shared language and understanding of complex systems
  • Co-create tools and practices that enhance collective wisdom

Our approach is rooted in the MG Taylor methodology and enriched by adjacent methods. We offer a clear, structured learning path with hands-on practice, peer exchange, and resources like the ReCoDe Board Game. Over time, you can work toward certification as a facilitator and designer using the MGTaylor methodology.

More than a training program, the Academy is a living community where people keep learning, reflect together, and grow in their practice.

We offer:

  • Access to our Knowledge Hub: A curated library of models, tools, modules, and community research.
  • Structured Learning Paths: Self-directed courses and expert-led deep dives into collaborative methodologies.
  • Certification Programs: A co-designed pathway toward recognition as a facilitator and designer of collaborative processes.
  • AI-Enhanced Learning: Explore how artificial intelligence supports real-time facilitation, design, and learning.
  • Comprehensive Training: Develop the skills to design and sustain the full ecosystem of collaboration—not just events, but whole systems.
  • …and more to be designed with you

Advocacy

We have never, in our history, been better equipped than we are today to make excellent decisions that draw from historical experience, weave together the knowledge and perspectives across our many domains of knowledge, and are informed by a richness of data beyond anything imaginable, even a generation ago.

The ways in which we approach decision-making in modern society no longer represent the best of what we know about structuring decisions, and if we want to enjoy a better future, we need to improve how we make decisions.

  • We need to improve our infrastructure for establishing shared truths.
  • We need to build processes for arriving at shared priorities.
  • We need to establish new norms for accountability in political speech.
  • We need mechanisms for inter-agency collaboration on complex issues that don’t fall neatly within one category.
  • We need to develop plans and policies that are responsive to evidence and respectful of future generations.
  • We need to adapt how we engage in democratic discourse in a way that is open, but can manage threats of foreign interference and misinformation.
  • We need policy decisions to have the same burden of due process that we expect of verdicts in the justice system.
  • We need to do all of this in ways that build on fundamental democratic principles.

We already have the tools, techniques, and practices to design all of these processes. What we need is the will to put in the work and the courage to experiment. This, to us, is the essence of Process Activism: the knowledge that the decisions we make are shaped by how we make them, and only by designing a better system can we expect to have better results.

Our advocacy efforts will focus on establishing global standards for decision-making processes, building an evidence base for proven and emerging practices, and building a publishing and media base to disseminate and promote leading methods and practices.

We offer:

  • The Journal of Collaborative Design: A publication spotlighting cutting-edge methods and global innovations.
  • White Papers & Research: Thought leadership exploring the future of collaborative decision-making and systemic transformation.
  • The Decision Tank: A research and experimentation initiative co-created with academic and institutional partners.
  • Public Engagement: Participation in dialogues, media, and policy conversations to influence how decisions are made at scale.
  • …and more to be designed with you

Assembly

The Assembly is the heart of our community. It’s where we come together to deepen relationships, exchange knowledge, and grow a shared field of collaborative practice.

We do this in two ways:

  • Joining existing gatherings around the world to show how collaboration works in practice, host learning spaces, and connect with decision-makers.
  • Creating our own spaces, from small local meet-ups to deep learning retreats and larger events on key issues like democracy, climate, and wise decision-making for the common good.

Whether it’s a pop-up, a sanctuary, or a long-form workation, each gathering is a space to be in conversation, build trust, and strengthen our collective practice.

Assembly is also how we shape the future of our field—not by providing paid services, but by creating the conditions for connection, emergence, and shared direction.

We offer:

  • Model of the Month Sessions: Monthly conversations unpacking key concepts and tools from our shared practice.
  • Online Community Sharing: Regular sessions focused on emerging themes, case studies, and collaborative learning.
  • The Assembly Gathering: Our annual convening of the global community of practice and adjacent fields.
  • Systemic Issue Gatherings: Focused events exploring topics like democracy, climate, and intergenerational equity.
  • Local Meet-Ups: Grassroots gatherings that foster trust and connection within the broader network.
  • …and more to be designed with you

Community

The Value Web is a global community of individuals who are focused on sharing, combining, and advancing the very best of human knowledge and practice around collective decision making. It is a forum for developing an operating system for human cooperation that recognizes the deep areas of knowledge in science, the arts, technology, design, philosophy, and traditional wisdom that must be combined in order to create the strategies, governance structures and policies required to navigate the complexities and challenges of our time.

We approach this through our three primary spaces of community engagement — Academy, Assembly, and Advocacy — through which we provide research and training, gatherings around critical issues, and policy and process recommendations.

About Us

The Value Web traces its origins to 2005, when the World Economic Forum invited Matt and Gail Taylor to help transform the experience of its Annual Meeting in Davos. In response, they gathered a diverse team of Knowledge Workers—facilitators, designers, systems thinkers, and process architects—to support a bold experiment in how global leaders could work together more wisely. This network became the seed of what would later evolve into The Value Web.

What began as a one-time collaboration soon became a sustained partnership, and ultimately, a global organisation. Over the years, we have not only worked with the World Economic Forum but also with civil society, international organizations, foundations, academic institutions, and governments to co-create solutions to complex, systemic challenges—always with a focus on the common good.

At the core of our work are the Ten Design Assumptions developed by Matt and Gail Taylor. These assumptions describe the unprecedented complexity of the world we inhabit and the urgent need for new ways of thinking, working, and deciding—together. They remind us that while humanity faces existential risks, we also hold the collective capacity for breakthrough, not just breakdown. These assumptions are more relevant today than ever before, and they continue to ground our practice, our partnerships, and our purpose.

We believe these design assumptions demand not just better decisions, but a transformation of how decisions are made. That is why The Value Web exists not as a service provider any longer, but as a neutral home—a platform that welcomes practitioners from across collaborative process design methodologies. We are united by a shared commitment to learning, advocating, and assembling around the practice of process activism.

Today, through our three streams—Academy, Advocacy, and Assembly—we cultivate a global field of practice. We invite individuals and organizations to learn, connect, and experiment together—deepening our collective capacity to navigate complexity, grow shared wisdom, and co-create more life-affirming systems.

The 10 Design Assumptions

These assumptions ground our work and help us design with purpose in a world of increasing complexity. They reflect the challenges we face—and the opportunities to respond with awareness, responsibility, and creativity.

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Facilitator, teacher, technologist, community builder—whatever your path, if you’re drawn to collaboration and collective learning, there’s a place for you here.

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