- Yabs.io Search (in tags:strategy,social_change)urn:uuid:{3D7103A0-A587-4182-D7B5-2B6CF190C317}2024-03-28T08:29:50ZTEDxNoosa 2013 | Sohail Inayatullah | Causal layered analysis - YouTube14844162023-09-07T23:18:11ZZCausal layered analysis, a theory and practice of organisational, social and civilisational change, seeks to transform the present and the future, through deconstructing and reconstructing reality at four levels. The levels are: the litany or day to day unquestioned views of reality, the systemic, the worldview/stakeholder perspective and the deepest, often unconscious, myths and metaphors. Problems are considered at all four levels and multiple worldviews and stakeholders are brought into to consider alternatives. By moving up and down layers and considering alternative perspectives, transformative policy and strategic solutions are created.167weinreichThe new zeitgeist: relationships and emergence | by Bill Bannear | Mar, 2023 | Medium14142172023-04-19T19:25:36ZZFast forward to 2023, and there is a new zeitgeist around complexity and systems change. Depending on who you are, dear reader, I’m either late to the zeitgeist, or in the vanguard, but it basically boils down to this:
We need to stop trying to design the solution, and instead design for the conditions that enable the emergence of many solutions.
Fostering more, quality and trusted relationships is a critical enabler of that emergence.
For the catalysers of complex system change (often government), that means starting to value relationships as a key outcome.167weinreichStorytellers' Guide to Changing the World 2.012870072022-10-11T14:55:03ZZplus Field Guide companion doc to this download on same page167weinreichSystems Mapping: How to build and use causal models of systems11864982022-07-10T19:58:57ZZ167weinreichUtilizing a Positive Deviance Approach to Reduce Girls’ Trafficking in Indonesia: Asset-based Communicative Acts That Make a Difference - Lucía Durá, Arvind Singhal, 200910641522022-03-30T09:55:09Z2022-03-30T02:55:25Z167weinreichOPERATION CHRISTMAS - YouTube10218042022-01-31T15:47:00ZZIn 2010, Colombia's defense minister contacted an ad agency to create an idea to demobilize FARC members, the oldest guerrilla army in Latin America.
The agency, after spending over a year talking to nearly 100 of its members, learned two main things (1).
-First, guerrilla members are ordinary men and women and not only guerrillas, a fact which is often forgotten after 60 years at war.
-Secondly, they are more likely to demobilize during Christmas as it is a sensitive and emotional period.
Based on these insights, they had a clever idea to put a Christmas tree in strategic walking paths in the middle of the jungle that would light up when someone passed by with a message promoting demobilization.
The results? Three hundred thirty-one people who demobilized named this idea as one of the reasons to do so.
Over the years, several campaigns from the same agency were quite successful, and overall, they were named in over 800 demobilizations. Causality, of course, cannot be established. Nevertheless, any measurable, non-violent efforts like this one are praised.
Next time you think you have a difficult-to-reach customer, maybe think again!167weinreichThe Features of Narratives: A Model of Narrative Form for Social Change Efforts | FrameWorks Institute7951702021-09-28T20:34:22ZZ167weinreichA Practical Guide for Rallying Stakeholders Through Advocacy | The Philanthropist5740932021-03-02T12:23:00ZZ167weinreichUpstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath « Dr. Doug Green4261432020-10-20T18:12:06ZZsummary of key points of book167weinreichThe '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world - BBC Future3850982020-09-24T10:33:37ZZLooking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.
Overall, nonviolent campaigns were twice as likely to succeed as violent campaigns: they led to political change 53% of the time compared to 26% for the violent protests.167weinreichKeeping People Engaged in Your Cause With Help From Behavioral Science3502532020-06-14T13:37:29Z2020-06-14T06:37:38Z167weinreichEmbracing complex social problems | Emerald Insight2721982019-12-09T22:14:44ZZ167weinreichFramework: Context Analysis of Technologies in Social Change Projects2719312019-11-11T08:16:53ZZContext analysis helps you to understand the elements of an environment and
a group of potential users so that you can design a better technology project. It
should involve key stakeholders, including implementing partners, donors, local and
national authorities, and community members.
We suggest five key lines of inquiry that context analyses should consider:
People: Levels of education and literacy, information habits and needs, access to
disposable income for equipment, electrical power to charge devices, and airtime
and data to run them, and network access;
Community: How membership of specific groups may affect access to technology
and communications habits. For example, a nomadic clan may have attributable
characteristics shared by its members, and variations in levels of access and
freedom within the clan differentiated by gender and age.
Market environment: An understanding of the key players, legal and regulatory
issues, the mobile market, including both cost and distribution of agent networks,
and the infrastructure, including commercial mobile infrastructure such as the
availability of short-codes and APIs are all critical to making good design decisions.
Political environment: understanding governance and control of, and access to,
communications infrastructure by government and other actors
Implementing organization: Many interventions have failed because staff were not
able to maintain technology, because power or access to internet were not strong
enough, because staff capacity was low or went away, or because the intervention
was not supported by a broader culture of innovation and adaptive learning.167weinreichUnsticking Stuck Mental Models: Adventures in Systems Change2667442019-09-10T09:38:18ZZ167weinreichSix Ways to Boost Public Support for Prevention-Based Policy2660422019-08-12T08:37:02ZZAddressing massive challenges like climate change and poverty requires that we take a long-term view and have a preventative mindset. Since these perspectives challenge the deeply ingrained ways we have evolved to think and behave, we need to pay attention to why prevention is hard to think about and navigate the cognitive road blocks that stand in the way of progress. By presenting issues and information in ways that unlock support for preventative approaches, we can galvanize the ideas and actions social and environmental change requires.167weinreichPost-it notes spread protest message on Hong Kong’s Lennon Walls — Quartz2642462019-07-10T20:59:46ZZ167weinreichA Guide to Hope-Based Communications | OpenGlobalRights2533402019-06-11T20:27:40Z2020-04-23T03:26:24ZAlso see author's org: https://www.hope-based.com/
5 shifts:
1) Fear to hope
2) Against to for
3) Problem to solution
4) Threat to opportunity
5) Victims to heroes167weinreichThe Deeper Truth of the ‘truth’ Campaign: Influence is Bigger than Persuasion | Rob Gould | LinkedIn767612015-07-15T12:15:03ZZ167weinreichD-Lab: Disseminating Innovations for the Common Good | Edgerton Center | MIT OpenCourseWare768462015-05-08T01:41:22ZZ167weinreichCampaign Tools & Tips | World Economic Forum - Campaign Tools & Tips770732015-01-28T19:20:21ZZ167weinreichWhat's A Good Objective? - The Online Community Guide772892014-10-06T06:00:47ZZ167weinreichTrendwatching.com's Consumer Trend Canvas (trend understanding worksheet) (pdf)777512013-10-16T20:51:58ZZ167weinreichThe Engagement Pyramid: Six Levels of Connecting People and Social Change | Idealware786262010-11-17T05:39:32ZZ167weinreichA Response to “The Anatomy of a Movement” « Ask Spike786342010-11-12T20:12:59ZZ167weinreichIn Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Green Energy - Series - NYTimes.com786722010-10-21T02:45:26ZZ167weinreichLarge-scale tragedies 'don't connect with people emotionally'787342010-09-22T08:13:19ZZ167weinreichThe Ben Franklin School of Persuasion788382010-08-22T07:34:07ZZ167weinreichHow to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy. | Derek Sivers789802010-04-13T23:26:11ZZ167weinreichThe power of positive deviants - The Boston Globe790622009-12-01T05:58:55ZZ167weinreichDiscovering the Activation Point794002006-12-21T06:48:26ZZA downloadable publication for people in social change organizations that focuses on strategies for mobilizing concerned people to supportive action by identifying and leveraging their activation points. (via Guy Kawasaki)167weinreich