Mapping System Shifting Networks
a training slide-deck to assist system-shifting initiatives in mapping their networks
offered by June Holley
Scaffolding for System Shifting Networks
Networks come in all shapes and sizes. However, if you want to be a system shifting network you will need to put in place scaffolding so that transformation can emerge…
Collective Impact ~ System Shifting Network Approach
People frequently ask “How do network approaches differ from Collective Impact? Actually, Collective Impact, with a few modifications, can be a system shifting network approach which can increase its long…
System Shifting Networks
Not all networks are the same! If you are interested in transforming systems so that they are good for everyone, then you are probably helping people co-create a System Shifting…
SHIFTING A SYSTEM: The Reimagine Learning network and how to tackle persistent problems
Some problems are simply too big for any one organization. One solution: a network of like-minded leaders working toward a common goal. Reimagine Learning, taking on systemic education issues, offers…
Investing in Systems Change Capacity
Across the board, philanthropy seeks to achieve enduring, system-level change. Many funders have learned that a critical lever for change is shifting the conditions and capacities of the system. Any…
Governance for System Change
The Complexity Spectrum blog describes how clock and cloud (non-system change and system change) approaches require fundamentally different strategies and tactics. The same goes for the mental models and processes we use…
The role and power of re-patterning in systems change
7 everyday patterns to shift systems towards equityMany recent discussions about civic innovation and systems change have focused on big structural changes that need to take place if we are…
Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday
The contextImagesIsn’t it interesting how frequently as human beings we turn to metaphor? Sometimes these images are so embedded in the everyday that we don’t see them for what they…
Stories that Change Systems
This blog was originally published in February 2022 by Rotary Charities of Traverse City.“Stories make, prop up, and bring down systems. Stories shape how we understand the world, our place…