Why does the Tenacious Change Approach make a difference? It's (brief) origin story explains.
Origins of the Tenacious Change Approach
It’s Live! Get it Now!
Getting Started with the Tenacious Change Approach is Now Live! In 10 lessons and 6 hours you will be introduced toKey Mindsets,Essential Operating Principles,andCore Tasksof group, organization, community, and system change. Here's what you'll get: 10 lessons, which include 10 streaming videos (20 min max length), each dedicated to a single Key Mindset and introduces …
Networking, Peer Learning, and Inspired Community Change…with Sand and Sun!
Late October in Florida is beautiful! At the 2022 Community Change Experience we'll be right on the beach where you can hang out with colleagues, or the new friends you've just met at the event, to talk about what you are learning together. The 2022 Community Change Experience is a three-day event designed for community engagers, …
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Registration Cost Reduced for Community Change Experience 2022
The 2022 Community Change Experience is a three-day event designed for community engagers, practitioners, and innovators from across North America to come together and share ideas, successes, and failures, and then apply this learning to community change work where they live. The Experience is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer learning with a diverse …
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Continuously Changing Forward
Change is not permanent for two reasons. One is based on resilience, the other on fragility. First, resilient communities and systems are always changing and adapting. It's their nature and that is normal. Second, fragile communities and systems can be so uncomfortable with change that they try to return to their previous state. We saw this in …
Persistent Improvement
If we are going to make improvements in our change efforts, we have to really know the tools we are using to create change, understand how they are supposed to work, honestly assess how well they are actually working, and then identify the adaptations we can make to improve the chances for change. Yep. That's …
Productive Disagreement
It's got to be said: trying to make change can also provoke disagreement, controversy, or even conflict. For this reason, change makers need a bit of courage and some tolerance for disagreement. We only need "a bit" and "some" as we come to realize that disagreement is part of the change process. Disagreement can even …
Better Practices
Whether you're a fan of "best practices" or not, you are going to love the idea of "Better Practices." Really! Why? Because Better Practices are ideas, strategies, and actions that emerge as a result of the Meaningful Participation and co-creation of members of the community (organization, system). The seventh video and lesson in the Getting Started …
Inclusive Decision-making
One of the ways we can assure Meaningful Participation by the Whole Community is to make sure those most affected by the change have a role in decision-making, especially on those decisions that most directly impact them. This is what is meant by the phrase, "it's not about us without us." Inclusive Decision-making focuses on …
Collaborative Leadership & Partnership
Collaborative Leadership and Partnership is a pathway to ensuring Meaningful Participation by the Whole Community. Collaboration and partnership are still necessary even in times when it is easy to be divided. No, wait, ESPECIALLY at times when we are divided. We are always able to do more together than individually...when we put our minds to …