What stimulates change?

When we celebrate our victories, we increase our sense of agency and our incentive to do more. When we feel empowered and impactful, we can be more effective in making a world of greater justice.

there are two basic kinds of work we may to do serve it, and each of the two has an inner and an outer expression. The first is to dismantle the structures, habits, beliefs, and powers of the old story (I call it the Story of Separation). The second is to grow the structures of the new story, the Story of Interbeing.

With the systems-emergence model, a general operating grant might be tied to a partner who shares an interest in systemic change, is values-and vision-aligned, and is working in adaptive ways.

Systems-emergence solutions are nonlinear and decentralized; change requires finding places to experiment within subsystems to shake them up and cause ripple effects (Boulton et al., 2015). Systems-emergence work does not attempt to describe the characteristics of a healthy system, but it often does describe the outcomes the system should be able t... See more

More generally, behavioural scientists should move away from thinking about standalone interventions when dealing with complex systems.

A better perspective is to see the overall impact of collections of policies, not just the specific indicators that have been preselected. That points towards system stewardship as a goal, where behavioural scienti... See more