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Theories and concepts

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Theories and concepts can help us to make sense of narratives, stories and discourses and identify practices that might lead to transformation.

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Theories of change

  • November 13, 2014
Last week, I wrote a post criticising the climate change communication strategies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role that theories of change play in shaping climate change communication strategies. A theory of change is essentially an idea about how things change in the world. Do you think political leaders make change happen, or do you think mass movements of people lead change? Do you think change is random, chaotic, or predictable? Do you think it happens through incremental improvement, or abrupt transformation? Everyone answers these questions differently and the combination of these answers makes up an individual’s theory of change.
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Climate change is a super wicked problem

  • May 29, 2013
In 1973, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber wrote a paper in Policy Sciences that introduced the term “wicked” problems. Wicked problems are societal problems that lack simplistic or straightforward planning…
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The futures triangle

  • November 5, 2012
This is the second post in a series sharing my ‘toolbox‘ of processes for facilitating change. This week I would like to share a futures thinking process called the futures…
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Open Space Technology

  • October 25, 2012
This is the first in a series of posts on the personal ‘toolbox‘ of processes I use for facilitating change. First up is Open Space Technology, a method developed by…
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J. Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal, 2012

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