SOCIAL INNOVATION LEARNING RELAY #2: EXPERIMENTATION Do you want to connect with other motivated social change agents experimenting with innovative solutions, share experiences and support each other with practical recommendations? Join us this March in Zagreb for our second Social Learning Relay, designed to boost the collaborative efforts of your team and strengthen your social impact initiatives!
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What? maintain motivation and enthousiasm along the way? And how do you resolve tensions in relations when working with diverse personalities, skills and expectations?
No matter how good your ideas for social change are on paper, putting them into practice requires another set skills and competencies. Direct experimentation helps further shape your ideas for change, but questions remain such as how do you keep your team empowered to pursue their creative efforts? How do you
Being able to deal with the challenges that arise during experimentation processes, turns out to be crucial for the development and sustainability of the innovation you wish to achieve. This spring, we offer you an innovative learning opportunity focussed on the topic of experimentation and precisely some of the challenges mentioned above.
What’s new? Our Social Innovation Relay’s
around experimentation process-
combine a full day thematic work-
es. We will provide a fertile ground
shop with an online peer-to-peer
for you to boost your knowledge
learning relay (‘the act of passing
in this area of social innovation
something along’). You bring in
and learn from and with the other
a learning question that has to
participants.
do with struggles and dilemma’s
For who? The workshop and relay are
formed on ¨first come, first serve
aimed at social innovation prac-
basis˝.
titioners, members of initiatives and networks for social change, those “agents of social change”, working in multidisciplinary teams on developing sustainable impact and others having experience in participating and/or facilitating experimental processes (e.g. co-creation, design thinking...). Keep in mind that number of places is limited to 25 so the relay is policy
Format and programme The relay will start with a kick-off
The relay period consists of 4-5
workshop on the 15th of March.
rounds of one week, in which
The workshop will combine infor-
each group provides input to the
mative & inspiring lectures, with
learning question of one of the
worksessions in which you will
participants in their group. At the
practice with a number of tools.
end of the relay period each per-
During the workshop you will get
son has given help to all her/ his
to know the other participants,
group mates. In the same period
deepen your learning question
we will also ask you to organise
and form smaller groups before
a ripple effect activity during the
embarking on the online learning
two month period of the relay. This
relay.
could for instance be co-organ-
ising a webinar on an emerging
participatory tools to your initia-
learning need in collaboration with
tive, or another type of interven-
SIC partners, applying one of the
tion.
ONLINE INTRO & WELCOME
KICK OFF WORKSHOP
RELAY ROUND 1
RELAY ROUND 2
RELAY ROUND 3
ONLINE MEETUP
RELAY ROUND 4
ONLINE CLOSURE
6th April
9th - 15th April
to be decided
ASSIGNMENT ACTIVITY 7th March
15th March
19th - 25th March
26th March 1st April
2nd - 8th April
Learning outcomes We promise a different type of
a personal level and with other
learning. Moving from reactive
social innovation networks and
learning that many face during the
initiatives;
development of Social Innovation,
Empower and support each
towards reflective and reflexive
other;
learning. Zooming out with a sys-
Gain practical solutions and
tems thinking lens and zooming
recommendations on challenges
in: deepening the learning capaci-
associated with experimentation;
ty of yourself and your initiative.
Improve your ability to adapt to existing and future challenges;
The Social Innovation Learning
Apply newly acquired knowl-
Relay will help you to:
edge & tools in a peer-to-peer learning environment.
Establish new connections at
What do you bring in? Motivation & curiosity to be part
activity during the two month peri-
of an experimental learning format
od of the relay
Communication: share experi-
Time investment: 2 hours a week
ence, knowledge and network
during 4-5 relay rounds.
Participation: in workshop, the relay & final skype session Action: organise a ripple effect
Apply
If you would like to take part in the
motivation to join. We will make a
relay, we kindly request you to ap-
selection of (max 25) participants
ply via the online application form
based on these applications, with
You will be asked to provide a
the aim to create a diverse and
learning question that you want to
inspiring learning environment in
bring in during the relay, what you
which participants can comple-
have to offer in terms of experi-
ment each others experience and
ence & area of expertise, and your
knowledge.
What we will provide We will provide theoretical framing
form of facilitating knowledge
and content during the kick-off
input.
workshop and a fertile ground to spark continued interactions and
The workshop will be facilitated by
knowledge exchange.
Mirna Karzen & Stella Kalac from Social Innovation Lab, Croatia.
We will also provide:
They will bring in their enthusiasm
An online platform to showcase
for creating inspiring learning en-
your initiative and learning pro-
vironments and their expertise in
cess;
the field of participatory approach-
Access to people in networks of
es, facilitating teams and orga-
SIC partners;
nizations in SI development and
Support during the relay in the
capacity building for social impact.
A series of relays The Social Learning Relay on
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Transformative Impact is part of a series of three (separate) Relays,
Relay 2 - Experimentation: kick-
each with a different thematic
off workshop 15th of March 2018
focus, location, and group of par-
in Zagreb, Croatia
ticipants. Relay 3 – Funding: kick-off Relay 1 - Impact: kick-off work-
workshop September 2018 to be
shop 15th of November 2017 in
determined.
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