Reflecting on a real rollercoaster few days at #CTRLshift2018 - both galvanising and challenging for me personally… 1/8
…learning what it means to hold space for voices and perspectives that might otherwise not be heard. Something we all need to be alert to and be practising more #CTRLshift2018#civilsocietyfutures 2/8
…and to Wigan for helping me get out of my bubble, particularly for the chat with Pam who works at the local wire mesh factory housed in relic of the past, a reminder of how radically things change #CTRLshift2018 8/8
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Today we launched the latest Future of Sustainability report, something I’ve been working on for seemingly ages now. ’Launch’ days are often a bit of an anticlimax, so feeling really weird about it, so sharing some of the behind the scenes process with you #timetotransform (1)
The experience of creating this has been wild…
…wildly inspiring, frustrating and unpredictable in equal measure. Full of shape shifting and iterating in the midst of a global pandemic (2)
We started by asking what are the dynamics shaping the coming decade. Forest fires and Covid-19 the first major shocks of the decade…a turbulent and dynamic future not just a thing of the future- but a thing of our everyday reality (3)
Insights from our experience of facilitating the messiness of change….….based on learning from @forumforthefuture #SchoolofSystemChange@BoundlessRoots + more
1. Persistence - act like a squirrel cracking a nut 🐿 2. You get what you put in - put the time in, you learn and get things back ✨ 3. Feedback is essential - so you don’t just have the ‘things you learnt graveyard’ 💀
4. Learning to work with emergence, you can’t control it - it's about spotting patterns and finding a way of working with what's next 🐛 5. Paying attention to how we work is as important as what we work on 🌊
Lots of great stuff in this piece that speaks to how the mindset and framings make a difference to what is possible and resonates with my own experience & patterns starting to hear from elsewhere. angelafell1.wixsite.com/website/post/h… Thanks for articulating @angelafell HT @DavidTWarner
Pulling out some highlight quotes:
“The local and national response frames people as the helper or the helped. The images used, reinforce the narrative of helplessness and vulnerability.” #civilsocietyfutures@NewCitProj
“Every large institution has a policy or a statement in place that goes something like this. ‘We want people to do more for themselves & each other’. The Covid_19 response has felt like it’s been created in a separate world-It encourages dependency rather than inderdependency.“
Hosted a webinar today with Joy & Sophia @forum4thefutre today...exploring the future trajectories from now and the underlying system dynamics at play. A contribution to making sense of this immense change we’re all experiencing happening right now. #systemchange
Kinda weird to know +200 were joining from around the world but not able to see their faces...
(Photo props from @kiajiehui's connections)
But here's the jist of what we shared -
…COVID-19 has caused a major, unprecedented, global discontinuity. And it is affecting everything, at all levels of the system - particularly of interest is that the deepest levels are being affected - the assumptions, mindsets, values and feelings.
Brexit became part of our lexicon, seemingly quickly - what is the equivalent for now, that has a longer term narrative in mind? Not reinforcing or turbo charging capitalism as we’ve known it.
How do we to start seeding the words/phrases now?
The reset, rebirth, reform, reemerge…..something else?