La Importancia De Crear Comunidad Para La Innovación Social

Louise Pulford

Director, SIX (Social Innovation Exchange)

The Social Innovation Exchange ( SIX)

SIX has a vision of a world where…

•Social innovators can easily exchange and share:

Ideas that work, across sectors and geographies Talent, capabilities, skills Access to power Money, capital and resources

SIX members feel inspired, connected, and supported

• Know who is doing what already

• Understand how it works• And have the capacity and

skills to do it yourself

SIX connects people around the world to:

Its hard to do social innovation without

community

It’s about doing things together

Co production Co design Co llaboration Co finance Co working Co creation Co munication Co mmunity

It doesn’t work without communities

We need to feel part of a community to learn what

really works

Social innovation is not easy….

"nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.“

President Clinton

Social innovation means everyone needs to think differently

- We need to create new ways to measure what is working and what is not

- We need quicker cycles of learning and feedback- We need new approaches to risk- We need different legal structures, insurance schemes,

policies.- We need to be more honest about what doesn’t work - We need to share our learning more effectively- We need to move from being individuals to being a

collective

We need to know we are not alone

What are the key elements of building a community from SIX’s perspective?

• If at SIX, we want the network to feel like a community which is

1. Inspired

2. Connected

3. Supported

Inspired by other things happening around the world

Passion and creativity

Connected through shared values

•We, the members of SIX:

1.value social impact (rather than ideas)

2.celebrate solutions (more than heroes)

3.engage honestly (more than just inform)

4.inspire through action (not just words)

5.connect as peers (not in a hierarchy)

6.committed to openness (and welcome the unexpected)

Support and trust

“Es posible que el proximo Buddha no tomara la forma de un individuo. El proximo Buddha puede tomar la forma de una comunidad, una comunidad de practica de la compresion y de la bondad, una comunidad practicando una vida consciente, esto puede ser la cosa mas importante que podemos hacer para la supervivencia de la tierra”.

Thich Nhat Hanh - Monje Budista Vietnamita

“It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community – a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist teacher