Collective Change Lab

| Relationships are the essence and fabric of collective impact. What’s critical for those who facilitate collective impact efforts is to support relationship development in ways that build true empathy and compassion.

Read our latest article The Relational Work of Systems Change in the Stanford Social Innovation Review here: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_relational_work_of_systems_change

Check out our latest article, The Relational Work of Systems Change, published today in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. By calling on our sector to invest our collective energy in more relational and emergent approaches to transforming systems, we are merely naming what many of us already know: the ways we currently collaborate are simply not up to the magnitude of the task given the complexity of the social and environmental problems we are trying to address. To get to more radical outcomes, we need more radical ways of working together. It is both as simple and as hard as that.

Read the article here: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_relational_work_of_systems_change

Interested in sharing your experiences with a growing global community of practitioners experimenting with more relational and emergent approaches to transforming systems? Register for our upcoming webinar here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uduCqqD8uE9Yqq-NeEihzWeUS2Cg_lSsF

Introducing the Systems Storytelling Initiative

This month, we are launching the Systems Storytelling Initiative. We’re focusing on how collectives tell stories of systems change - not just the change that we seek, but the ways we do it together.

Through the course of this project, we aim to identify non-dominant techniques for storytelling that will foster collective meaning-making in more relational and productive ways for collective change.

Read the Feature Article authored by ​Cynthia Rayner, Systems Storytelling Initiative Leader here - https://www.collectivechangelab.org/blog