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May 23, 2023 10 tweets 7 min read Read on X
The Big Question: What does it take to transform a system ❓

It’s time for our first panel of the day on community power as a catalyst for large scale change w/ @kimleadbeater @ProfDonnaHall @hodajudaharmani @HelenGou & Professor Tony Travers. Conference speakers sitting...
What needs to be present within a local system to make community power happen?

“A team of rebels to lead radical reshaping…we cannot do that without listening to and working with communities.”

“Less talk about governance structures…”

@ProfDonnaHall on the need to be BOLD Image
“Centring your work around the needs and aspirations of communities is fundamental”

“We’re locked into lots of big systems that are very hard to escape. These won’t become more equitable and fair unless there is mass participation in the change”

@HelenGou ⚡️ #StrongerThings Image
“Human centred design is only useful if we’re learning from the humans we’re engaging with”

@hodajudaharmani on problem solving, learning & redesigning systems #StrongerThings Image
“The best people to make decisions about their community are the people who live there day in and day out”

@kimleadbeater on empowering people at a hyper local level #StrongerThings Image
The possibility for empowerment at a local level comes against a backdrop of a decade of budget cuts.

Harnessing the talents of people in neighbourhoods is key 🔑

And there are things that only local decision makers can get right ✅

Prof Tony Travers #StrongerThings Image
“There is a culture shift that this is the right direction of travel…we’ve got the beginnings of an eco system of cross sector collaboration”

@HelenGou on the growing strength of the #CommunityPower movement 🌟
“The system unfortunately rewards compliance…not the people who want to bring about system change”

👉 Why we need different leaders and radically different structures @ProfDonnaHall #StrongerThings
“You feel a community by being there…we need more emotion in our decision making”

@kimleadbeater #StrongerThings ⚡️
🧱 Understand your area
🧱 Collaboration, action, listening, celebrating
🧱 Speed, scope, scale
🧱 Don’t pass the problem along, it stops with you
🧱 Start with people
🧱 Corral the rebels

Our fantastic panel on the building blocks needed to change systems #StrongerThings Image

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