Hit me with your best shot
A country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing
What is our North Star
A sense of belonging and having people you can count on and people who count on you
What is social connectedness
We are always balancing tradeoffs when we do this
What is making a decision or a change
Usually targeted in systems change, because of the belief that people don’t have knowledge or skills to do things differently, but does little to create durable change.
What is practice
It's what matters to people
What is wellbeing
The reason we don't all have equitable access to wellbeing
What is racism and otherings built into our systems
A sense of predictability
What is stability
This is harder than making change
What is sustaining change
According to FFI's systems change definition these are the three things that should be altered or transformed between people and structures
What is how they are linked, function, and influence one another
Everyone and every community has these as well as needs
What are assets
We can't technical assistance our way to the North Star we must spark this
What is a movement
Ability to be true to core identities without danger or shame
What is safety
The part of our wellbeing definition that speaks to tradeoffs
What is in combination and balance
Often the hardest piece to tackle, it's the under-the-surface set of beliefs, feelings, attitudes and patterns of assumptions that show up in “how we do things around here"
What is culture
Power lies in who gets to do this
What is framing an issue
Their vision is to be a city where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing
What is New London
Sense of choice and that we can influence our environment, future and/or relationships.
What is mastery
People need motivation and this for change to last
What is sustainable tradeoffs
In addition to practice, policy and structures and culture these are 3 element that are also key for systems change
What are context and history, mental models, and relationships and power
A subset of social infrastructure, these are low/no barrier to entry and allow people to mix across difference.
What are wellbeing reservoirs
Since our systems are unfair by design, wellbeing can be used as this to reimagine and transform them
What is a design principle
The most important domain of wellbeing
What is all of them
In the wall, trampoline, chute video, this represents the consequences of unsustainable tradeoffs
What is the chute
In addition to asset based and first movers and relationship these are the other three levers of change that don’t get the respect they deserve
What are Framing, Timing and Power
The right ingredients for systems change
What are people, situation/timing, likely so what (momentum and movement building)