Driving Transformative Collaboration: A Masterclass www.reboot.org Designing Collaborations for Courageous Change Session 1 | April 22
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Section 1 INTRODUCTION
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Welcome! Thank you for joining us.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Talking Today Panthea Lee Chelsey Lepage Founder & Executive Director Associate Director, Programs
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Hi! We’re Reboot. Who We Are: We were founded to tackle structural inequity and injustice. We work primarily work in the global development, good governance, and civic and media innovation spaces. How We Work: We advance our mission in over 40 countries in collaboration with partners — social movements, community groups, civil society, media, companies, governments, and international agencies - helping them drive transformative collaborations for courageous change. Our Perspective: Our thinking and methods are informed by our backgrounds as ethnographers, organizers, facilitators, and designers.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Who You Are
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Systems change requires all of us. Grassroots Artists Activists Researchers Civil Society Companies Governments Journalists Groups Role, as imagine protest unjust assess care for builds produce create policies monitors commonly futures that systems, different communities movements goods and and deliver institutions understood honours each practices, possible to ensure that holds us services that services to and society person’s institutions paths to a critical needs accountable people need serve their for violations dignity better future. are met. to the greater to meet their people of our social good needs contract ...but these archetypal roles are somewhat idealistic, and even increasingly naive.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations But to change systems, we must change ourselves. Grassroots Artists Activists Researchers Civil Society Companies Governments Journalists Groups Role, as Imagine protest unjust assess care for builds produce create policies monitors commonly futures that systems, different communities movements goods and and deliver institutions understood honours each practices, possible to ensure that holds us services that services to and society person’s institutions paths to a critical needs accountable people need serve their for violations dignity better future. are met. to the greater to meet their people of our social good needs contract ... and as it and advocate and help and shape and push for and embeds and do so via and protect and combats must evolve. for these new define paths discourse & needs being them within ethical, against narratives realities. . to dismantling policy sustainably institutions & sustainable corrupting that fuel fear, them. towards them. met. ecosystems. practices. interests. divisiveness, and hate.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Why We’re Here The Need: Tackling systemic challenges require systemic approaches. We need each other’s superpowers and skills AND we also others to hold us to account. The Challenge: Radical collaboration is hard. There’s mistrust, there’s fear, there’s cultural differences, and there’s good ol’ logistics. Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations “But it’s so hard...” - How do we bring the right actors to the table? - How do we overcome mistrust , fear, shame, inertia? - How do we agree on a common vision when we all come from different backgrounds? - How do we move past talk (so! much! talk!) and into action ? - How to we sustain momentum for the long haul ?
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations And yet it’s essential. Grassroots Journalists & Artists Activists Researchers Civil Society Companies Governments Groups Media Role, as Imagine protest unjust assess care for builds produce set & deliver monitors commonly futures that systems, different communities movements goods and policies and institutions understood honours each practices, possible to ensure that holds us services to services to and society person’s institutions paths to a critical needs accountable meet serve their for violations dignity better future. are met. to the greater people’s people of our social good needs contract ... and as it and advocate and help and shape and push for and embeds and do so via and protect and combats must evolve. for these new define paths discourse & needs being them within ethical, against narratives realities. . to dismantling policy sustainably institutions & sustainable corrupting that fuel fear, them. towards them. met. ecosystems. practices. interests. divisiveness, and hate. We need ALL Radical Moral Intellectual Generosity, Power to Production Resources, Ability to these Imaginations Clarity & Rigour Agility, Compel Distribution Scale & Shape Public superpowers Courage Creativity Action Capacity Durability Agendas
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Utopian? Hardly. Systems and structures that enable and sustain injustice, inequality, and oppression were intentionally designed. Futures that honour and protect justice, equality, and liberation can also be designed. But it requires all of us.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations We must overcome personal discomfort & historical barriers to build new muscles & platforms for radical collaboration for responding now & reimagining our future.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Our 3-Part Series Session 1: Why & Who Session 2: How, Pt 1. Session 3: How, Pt 2. Designing Collaborations for Aligning on Priorities Steering Diverse Partners Urgent, Courageous Change When Everything is Important Toward Cohesive Action How to: How to: How to: - Create a compelling - Navigate messy dynamics to - Drive a diverse group rallying cry align on a common agenda towards action - Bring together unlikely - Manage differing interests - Navigate tensions and partners and politics disagreements - Overcome mistrust & - Assess trade-offs and take - Troubleshoot inevitable establish a strong foundation decisions together tensions and challenges that for success arise
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations How We’ll Work Integrated Series This is a 3 part series and each session builds on, and refers to, the last. Standalone Sessions Each session can also stand alone. They include methods & tools that you can use in your work. Continued Conversations At the end of each session we’ll answer questions, but we encourage you to continue the conversation online through social media. Don’t be shy about reaching out.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Group Expectations Be: Online Etiquette: Collaborative: Ask a question Present Mics will be & participate muted! in the polls. See anything inappropriate? Please chat Engage in the Constructive Alyssa. chat with your peers.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 www.reboot.org LAYING A STRONG FOUNDATION THE VIEW FROM HERE
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Collaboration ain’t easy. - Mistrust stemming from historically antagonistic relationships, or stereotypes about what roles we should play. - Shame that we’re not fulfilling the function that we are supposed to. - Fear that we will get found out, and that others will exploit our vulnerabilities. - Inertia feels safer than figuring out how to address the above AND doing so across different cultures, ideologies, motivations, timelines, appetites for risk, success metrics, etc, etc, etc.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations “Most social innovations don’t stem from solving technical challenges — they result from solving relational challenges .” - Adam Kahane (paraphrased, but it’s very smart and he’s very kind so we hope it’s ok)
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Part I: The Work Before the Work
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Where you start matters. - It requires deep thinking and planning about what you want to tackle, and who can help you do it - We can lay the groundwork in advance, to: - Lean in and tackle the messy, human dynamics - Give people a reason to show up
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Start with the problem they experience NOT with the solution you want to build. Help future partners see themselves in your prompt.
Driving Transformative Collaboration: Session 1 Designing Collaborations Frame your rallying cry ← ------------ Starting Point Spectrum ----------- ➝ Problem Space Solution Space
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