From lots of little conversations ...

BIG change grows

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;

everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”

Albert Einstein

Behaviour ChangeIndividual

Behaviour ChangeIndividual

Behaviour Change

Transformationof Community

The RSA’s Social Brain Project

The RSA’s Social Brain Project

Brains

BehaviourEnvironments?

Can we go on like this?

?

Undo Plans

Worst Case

People do what they do, often sub-consciously, under the influence of others

“

”Mark Earls

Fail Safe

FailSafe

“Try lots and lots of new things and fail informatively so you can find a skull on a pikestaff somewhere” Clay Shirky

Steve Johnson

Keith Sawyer

Group Genius

Standford University

PlanLessDoMore

Standford University

Improvised

Innovation

Paradox

T E A M S

P R OI S

MI

V TA N AL

OI

?

x Z y

Sir Ken Robinson

x Z y

x = natural aptitudey = personal passion

Z = Being in your element

x Z y

x = natural aptitudey = personal passion

Z = Being in your element

x

z

yF

Prof Csikszentmihalyi

x

z

y

x = skills match challengey = clear goalsz = relaxed state

F

x

z

y

x = skills match challengey = clear goalsz = relaxed state

F = Being in a

F

Flow State

Conversation

Group Flow

T E A M S

P R OI S

MI

V TA N AL

OI

Deep Listening

Prepared vs ‘the plan’

Potential for failure

InnovationFailure

Who do we need to be?

Who do we need to be?as leaders?in community?in conversation?

Who do we need to be?as leaders?in community?in conversation?

Who do we need to be?as leaders?in community?

in conversation?

Whatever the Problem ...Community is the Answer

“”

Conversation is one of the answers

Whatever the Problem ...

Emergence

Never doubt that a small group of

thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world ... indeed it is the only thing that ever has

“

”Margaret Meade

Anthropolgist

Who do we need to be?

Passion but inaction? Taking responsibility for Sustainability

To create the conditions for emergence

Who do we need to be?

Passion but inaction? Taking responsibility for Sustainability

To create the conditions for emergence

ThankyouGeoff Brown

Tangent Consulting

www.tangentconsulting.com.au

The Fine Print and Acknowledgements

Thanks to Hugh McLeod for creating such accessible and wonderful comics - http://www.gapingvoid.com/

Thanks to friend and colleague Simon Kneebone for all of his great cartoons and ideas

Thanks to Mark Earls for writing the book Herd and making the concepts of complexity and behaviour change make sense to me! Mark’s blog is here - http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/

Thanks to Dave Snowden over at Cognitive Edge for the Cynefin Framework and stories about 10 y.o. boys birthday parties on his podcasts. Dave’s blog is here - http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/

Thanks to Viv McWaters for providing me the inspiration to pursue all this stuff AND for her own writings on her blog over here - http://vivmcwaters.com.au/

Thanks to the Applied Improv community of legends - http://appliedimprov.ning.com/

Photo Credits:

•Slides 8, 11, 13, 15, istockphoto.com

•Slide 18 - http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pages/research/r-images.html

•Slide 67 - Berkana Institute Annual Report: www.berkana.org

•Slides 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 43, 44 - Google Images

… and finally thanks to Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen for his design thinking an dteaching.