1. From lots of little
conversations ...
BIG change grows

11. “Everything that can be counted does
not necessarily count;
everything that counts cannot
necessarily be counted.”
Albert Einstein

12. Behaviour Change
Individual

13. Behaviour Change
Individual

14. Behaviour Change
Transformation
of Community

16. The RSA’s
Social Brain Project

17. The RSA’s
Social Brain Project
Brains
BehaviourEnvironments
?

19. Can we go on like this?

22. ?

23. Undo Plans

24. Worst Case

26. People do what they do,
often sub-consciously,
under the influence of others
“
”Mark Earls

27. Fail Safe

28. FailSafe

29. “Try lots and lots of new
things and fail
informatively so you can
find a skull on a pikestaff
somewhere”
Clay Shirky

32. Steve Johnson
Keith Sawyer

37. Group Genius

38. Standford University
PlanLess
DoMore

40. Standford University
Improvised

41. Innovation
Paradox
T E A M S
P R O
I S
MI
V TA N A
L
OI

42. ?

45. x Z y
Sir Ken Robinson

46. x Z y
x = natural aptitude
y = personal passion
Z= Being in your element

47. x Z y
x = natural aptitude
y = personal passion
Z= Being in your element

48. x
z
y
F
Prof Csikszentmihalyi

49. x
z
y
x = skills match challenge
y = clear goals
z = relaxed state
F

50. x
z
y
x = skills match challenge
y = clear goals
z = relaxed state
F= Being in a
F
Flow State

51. Conversation

55. Group Flow
T E A M S
P R O
I S
MI
V TA N A
L
OI

57. Deep Listening

59. Prepared
vs ‘the plan’

61. Potential for failure

62. InnovationFailure

63. Who do we need to be?

64. Who do we need to be?
as leaders?
in community?
in conversation?

65. Who do we need to be?
as leaders?
in community?
in conversation?

66. Who do we need to be?
as leaders?
in community?
in conversation?

67. Whatever the Problem ...
Community is the Answer
“
”

68. Conversation
is one of the answers
Whatever the Problem ...

69. Emergence

70. Never doubt that a
small group of
thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the
world ... indeed it is the
only thing that ever has
“
”
Margaret Meade
Anthropolgist

71. Who do we need to be?
Passion but inaction?
Taking responsibility for Sustainability
To create the conditions for emergence

72. Who do we need to be?
Passion but inaction?
Taking responsibility for Sustainability
To create the conditions for emergence

74. Thankyou
Geoff Brown
Tangent Consulting
www.tangentconsulting.com.au

75. The Fine Print and Acknowledgements
Thanks to Hugh McLeod for creating such accessible and wonderful comics - http://www.gapingvoid.com/
Thanks to friend and colleague Simon Kneebone for all of his great cartoons and ideas
Thanks to Mark Earls for writing the book Herd and making the concepts of complexity and behaviour change make sense to me!
Mark’s blog is here - http://herd.typepad.com/herd_the_hidden_truth_abo/
Thanks to Dave Snowden over at Cognitive Edge for the Cynefin Framework and stories about 10 y.o. boys birthday parties on his
podcasts. Dave’s blog is here - http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/
Thanks toViv McWaters for providing me the inspiration to pursue all this stuff AND for her own writings on her blog over here -
http://vivmcwaters.com.au/
Thanks to the Applied Improv community of legends - http://appliedimprov.ning.com/
Photo Credits:
•Slides 8, 11, 13, 15, istockphoto.com
•Slide 18 - http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pages/research/r-images.html
•Slide 67 - Berkana Institute Annual Report: www.berkana.org
•Slides 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 43, 44 - Google Images
… and finally thanks to Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen for his design thinking an dteaching.