Practical Hope in Powerful Times Social Work Scotland Annual Conference Crieff, 13 June 2019 Graham Leicester @graham_iff

“How to take effective and responsible action in a world we do not understand and cannot control?” International Futures Forum (IFF): 2001

Source: The Guardian, summer 2007

Brid Featherstone

“People change lives not services or programmes or music “People change lives not services or programmes or music. At a societal level a challenging set of questions remain as to how this quality of relationship is conceptualised within policy, is represented and prioritised within funding criteria and structures and is planned for and implemented locally. And how can the quality of a relationship be satisfactorily measured or evaluated – and is this needed?”

Are you in a conceptual emergency? Are you struggling to provide care and compassion in a culture of blame, shame and punishment? Is there anything your profession pretends works but you know really doesn’t (any more)? Do you wonder whether all your colleagues and managers agree with you about what ‘success’ looks like and whose definition to follow if they don’t? Do you sometimes wonder where to draw the line when ‘showing up human’ in a professional context?

We face a real emergency – a world of pressing challenges. And a conceptual emergency – a struggle to make sense of a world of boundless complexity. And an existential emergency – how all of this leaves us feeling at a human level, individually and collectively.

Psychological Literacy Project

“Kitbag is designed to help find deeper connections in life – with ourselves, other people and the world. It contains a set of resources to support and facilitate personal growth, recognising that we all have the capacity for real learning, growth and healing.” www.iffkitbag.com www.iffkitbag.com

Roughly 30% of primary schools in Fife and 5% in the rest of Scotland use Kitbag on a regular basis. Children 1st are using Kitbag for client-facing work (with families) as well as for growing the culture of the organisation and for peer support. Over 500 staff from a wide range of agencies, and in many countries, have taken part in introductory sessions about Kitbag and are using it in their practice.

‘Kitbag Campaign’ backed by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) as part of their own 80:20 campaign promoting relationship based practice with children and their families.

ACEs to Assets - Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture

Transformative Innovation Shifting systems to a new pattern of viability fit for the future rather than just fixing what’s failing in the present. Growing the new in the presence of the old.

Three Horizons Making sense of the landscape of change through three perspectives on the future potential of the present moment Pattern Time

First Horizon: Sustaining Innovation The managerial perspective, keeping things going Pattern Today’s Dominant Pattern: a system losing strategic fit and therefore dominance over time H1 Time

Third Horizon: Transformative Innovation The visionary perspective, aspiring to a better way The Future Pattern: a system in tune with deeper trends that eventually emerges as the new dominant system—perhaps a generation from now Pattern H3 Time

Second Horizon: Disruptive Innovation The entrepreneurial perspective, eager to try new things – sustaining transformative + Pattern Zone of Transition: a system seeking to exploit the opportunities emerging in a changing world H2 Time

Three Horizons: Bringing it Together A transformative innovation system that contains three ways of acting in and seeing the world. Pattern H1 Manager H2 Entrepreneur H3 Visionary Time

Three Horizons Voices and Relationships Shifting from negative mindsets to positive perspectives enables people to work across horizons and facilitate the conditions for transformative change. Negative Mindsets Positive Perspectives H1 H3 H2 H1 H3 H2 Too Risky Ideas Irrelevant Hope Obstructive Support Impractical Inspiration Dinosaur Scale Compromise Ally

A Case Study in Systems Change in Health and Social Care Part One: Conceptual Architecture Part Two: The Story of SHINE Part Three: The Last Mile Part Four: What Works? June 2018

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