New Community Paradigms

This class provides an introduction to the roles of individuals and associations in shaping our collective public life and the civic fabric of our towns, states, and countries. Sometimes this involves coming together to influence governing bodies such as city councils or public agencies; sometimes it focuses on doing the things your community wants but can't or won't get government to do.

This course has been developed by The Omidyar Group and +Acumen to help anyone working on complex problems across any field of social change learn to use a Systems Practice to make sustainable social impact. This course will lead you through each step of understanding a system, analyzing it to find points of leverage, and learning how to adapt in a changing environment.

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Action M and Participant 9 clustered Included in Healthcare Container

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Final Results, Participant Action Footprints, Top Five Actions Included in Healthcare Container

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The actual pathway depicted has not been built or even fully laid out. It does feature though the elements that are seen as being necessary to include or to avoid in being able to reach New Community Paradigms. The destination of New Community Paradigms can be best explained by the wiki and blog of the same name. The journey or exploration was to find means of using systems thinking to scaffold efforts at direct democracy by combining two separate systems approaches, perhaps even two separate mindsets together. This was made possible in part because of my participation in the DD&ST or Dialogue, Deliberation and Systemic Transformation Community. The project and the maps that make it up reflect an end to certain journeying and exploration but not, as of yet, the attainment of a final destination.

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Kumu making of 'What is Resilience?', the Systemigram of Resilience v3.sgm by Stevens Institute of Technology Copyright 2011