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

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

5. Source: The Guardian, summer 2007

8. Brid Featherstone

9. “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?”

10. 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?

12. 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.

13. Psychological Literacy Project

14. “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.”

15. 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.

16. ‘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.

17. ACEs to Assets - Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture

18. 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.

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

27. 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

30. to join our Transformative Innovation Network
An Invitation…
to join our Transformative Innovation Network

31. Thank you www.iffpraxis.com graham@internationalfuturesforum.com
@graham_iff