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After being asked by then Secretary of State for Health to chair an independent review, Sir Micharl Marmot’s released his report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives (2010). Marmot argued that reducing health inequalities requires action to reduce socioeconomic and other inequalities, or the other ‘non-medical’ factors that can influence our health and wellbeing, such as social, political and cultural conditions – where we live and work, our education and learning, who we meet and connect with, how we spend our free time.
In his groundbreaking book, Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover a revolutionary approach to learning and leadership. Theory U is a framework for learning, leading, and innovating systems change. It is an awareness-based method for changing systems and blends systems thinking, innovation and leading change from the viewpoint of an evolving human consciousness. Much of our ways of working including our core values, are guided by Scharmer’s Theory U model.
Our programmes are informed by the Five Ways to Wellbeing, enabling people to actively improve their wellbeing by increasing opportunities for people to:
In order to do the true, active listening with communities, to understand the barriers and challenges they are experienced and to work with them to help enact the change they want to see, we are informed by Nancy Kline’s ten components of a Thinking Environment®: Attention, Equality, Ease, Appreciation, Encouragement, Feelings, Information, Difference, Incisive Questions, Place.
Joanna Macy developed The Work That Reconnects in the 1970s to help activists reconnect with what is important and take action to improve the world. The Work That Reconnects is a set of practices and tools which offer key insights into how we can work together to support a shift in our hearts and minds and ignite systemic change. It’s a way of working against the contextual challenges we may find ourselves in, and help us discover our connections to each other, moving through pain, despair and grief into an inspired and collaborative action to effect change.
Deep Democracy is a practical method to start dialogue and discussion where we actively search for the wisdom of the minority. It is a practical and powerful decision-making method for inclusive decision making, where every opinion is heard, acknowledged and counted. This process recognises, acknowledges and includes alternative points of view. Alternative voices are being heard, explored and are part of decision-making. This way of decision-making and group dynamics enables real co-creation and co-production, which is central to the way we work with communities.
