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Systems-Learning

A shared journey of collecting and weaving together our stories and patterns that teach us how our system currently works and how we can create conditions for learning and adapting.

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  • Great people doing great work will still struggle if we don’t collectively have the tools, practices, and mindsets to effectively engage patterns and unlock change.

  • Building capability to:

    ‘See’ the systems and align around systemic principles that guide action.

    Create the conditions for learning and adapting, to improve impact over time.

  • The ECAS Network, including Team Conveners and All Network Meeting participants

    Engaging Inquiry

    NEW: The Systems Cartographer Team - an advisory group to provide critical perspective and thought partnership through the process

  • Q1 + Q2 2023

    Step I: Name key forces for exploration (Completed)

    Step II: Understand causes and effects (Completed)

    Step III: Find patterns and build loops (Completed)

    Step IV: Build a provisional map of our interconnected stories (In progress*)

  • Q3 + Q4 2023

    Step V: Share the map, refine it; See the energy & assets present

    Step VI: Identify key “levers” of change potential

    Step VII: Bridge coaching to support application

  • Project Brief; A Collective Learning Journey

    ECAS Systems Journey - Slides

    Systems Map

    Leverage Map

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What we heard; Key levers to strengthen the Early Childhood System
Extended Team, Leverage Workshop
What we heard; Key levers to strengthen the Early Childhood System
Extended Team, Leverage Workshop

Participants in the leverage workshop worked to identify areas of opportunity within the map, and lifted up the potential offered by four interconnected opportunities.

Extended Team, Leverage Workshop
Catch up on a summary of efforts over the summer and fall
Extended Team, Leverage Workshop
Catch up on a summary of efforts over the summer and fall
Extended Team, Leverage Workshop

A great deal has happened since our last blog post; Extended Team, Socializing Meetings, Leverage Workshops… Here is an overview.

Extended Team, Leverage Workshop
What happens next and your role in the process
Gain Clarity, Process, Finding patterns, Building loops
What happens next and your role in the process
Gain Clarity, Process, Finding patterns, Building loops

With the knowledge and experience you have provided from the beginning of this journey until now, we are working to carefully weave together the important stories and patterns that teach us how our systems currently works.

Gain Clarity, Process, Finding patterns, Building loops
Share, deepen and connect at the Spring ANM
Gain Clarity, Process, All Network Meeting (ANM)
Share, deepen and connect at the Spring ANM
Gain Clarity, Process, All Network Meeting (ANM)

After three months of listening to the network, seeing patterns take shape, and building draft loops, we were able to bring 46 causal feedback loops to the Spring ANM in April 2023. 

Gain Clarity, Process, All Network Meeting (ANM)
Seeing patterns, and telling stories
Gain Clarity, Causal loops, Finding patterns, Building loops, Findings
Seeing patterns, and telling stories
Gain Clarity, Causal loops, Finding patterns, Building loops, Findings

During our small group discussions, participants uncovered a range of causes and effects around important helping or hindering forces present in the system.

Gain Clarity, Causal loops, Finding patterns, Building loops, Findings
Mahalo to the 32 participants of our online talk story sessions
Process, Gain Clarity, Understanding cause and effect
Mahalo to the 32 participants of our online talk story sessions
Process, Gain Clarity, Understanding cause and effect

Throughout the first three months of this year, we came together in small groups for talk story sessions around each of the 8 themes. What an amazing journey it has been!

Process, Gain Clarity, Understanding cause and effect
Major themes of system behavior
Enablers and Inhibitors, Themes, Findings, Gain Clarity, Key Forces
Major themes of system behavior
Enablers and Inhibitors, Themes, Findings, Gain Clarity, Key Forces

At the All Network Meeting in November 2022 we asked ourselves: “What is enabling and inhibiting quality outcomes for Hawai`i’s youngest keiki?” 

Enablers and Inhibitors, Themes, Findings, Gain Clarity, Key Forces
Setting off on a journey
Enablers and Inhibitors, All Network Meeting (ANM), Process, Gain Clarity
Setting off on a journey
Enablers and Inhibitors, All Network Meeting (ANM), Process, Gain Clarity

As we begin our 10th year as a collective impact, systems-change effort, we are in an important moment to come together and deeply understand what we are seeing and experiencing across …

Enablers and Inhibitors, All Network Meeting (ANM), Process, Gain Clarity