Oo Session 8 29.11.05 Day 2 Facilitating Self-Sustaining Change - Part I and Part II Objective To understand how to facilitate self-sustaining change within a system to achieve your goals. ‘re there ways for your efforts to trigger reactions in the wider system that sustain the positive effects in ‘our actions? Participants will lam through some participatory activity, theory and application by use of a case study, how to initiate actions within a systern that will contribute to achieving long term goals 61Session 8: Facilitating Self Sustaining Change Systems Thinking for Transformational Change @ ‘Coppight, 2005-- LEAD inematonal and Bustanadiy atte lead ZS@. Facilitating Self Sustaining Change -- Motivation + Refer to one of the initial goals you specified: + How many people are in your organisation? ‘+ How many people would need to change their behavior in some way in order for you to achieve your goals? + You are a small group of people with a very large challenge at hand. + You need to hamess self sustaining change in the world to achieve your goals? You need to identify what to do when your efforts are not producing the desired results? @ Copmigh, 2005 LENO Iematonal and Sustznsy Insts lead ZS, 62oO The Water Efficiency Case -- Facilitati Self Sustaining Change # Organisations had been working to promote water conservation between 1970 to 1990, with only minor results When these initial efforts to promote water conservation did not work, the organisations focused on three ways to have small results build on themselves. 1. Promoting Positive “Word of Mouth” 2. Saving Money By Conservation 3. Educating Regional Government Water Departments 2 conan. 206-Lerbnianatonaaswnnannnene ead ABZ The Water Efficiency Case -- een Self Sustaining Change 1. Promoting Positive “Word of Mouth” They focused less on selling the idea of water conservation and more on promoting the (even minor) positive results that had been achieved. Over time, there was general awareness of those results. Awareness boosted overall public support for water conservation in the community. Community support lead to additional effort at conservation which produced even more positive results, leading to even greater awareness of those results ... and so on... Notice how things build on themselves in this story] ‘Copyight 2005-~ LEAD Inemationel and Susteinabiy nstie 2 lead 28S. 63