World café
1) What about the cases inspired you with regard to your own work
• Local partnerships
• Listening
• Local dialogue
• Directive leadership sets parameters, connections, nose for spotting talent
• Look for simple solutions
• Think and act big
• Forgiveness structure
• Built to transition of leadership
• Built models for different lives
• Organizations don´t create movements
• Shared analysis
• Generative
• When is it appropriate/ when not
• Creating content as narrative
• Ways to overcome challenges together
• Knowledge sharing is key to dissemination acceleration
• Inspire – conspire – co spire
• Listening is a good base for training
• It is worth investing the time in developing practices of co- creation: these challenges are
not mine alone
• Extra importance of local partners
• Measurement and impact
• Focus on the value of emergent co-creative process for funders too
• Wider range of ideas + movilizing diversity + minimized complexity = leads to better
solutions
• Empowerment = low decisions made is freeing to share your own thoughts
• Taking quick action because opportunity won´t wait
• See and tell the deeper history the back drop to present initiatives
• Appreciate the transformative possibilities of crisis
• History of actions learning, video documentation learning can surely be our future
strength
• Getting shit done
• The cycle of action, listening and reflection
• Community learning: finding the way through the experience of those with who you work
2) What did we noticed about the challenges that co-created initiatives face?
• Time: is long term process
• Definitions ?
• Impact ?
• Parameters ?
• Developing beyond cynicism
• Ability to see possibilities for larger change
• Developing awareness of potential negative consequences
• How do we get beyond a “fart into thunder”
• Inspiring motivation
• Team building
• Directionality and openness
• Local / gobal dynamic
• Building relationships vs building on relationships
• Who is participating in whose process
• Charity sytle development gets in the way
• Leadership and passion essential to balance with co creation
• Giving people a reason to be there
• Maintaining spirit
• Money as a disruptor (competition and false scarcity)
• Some things have to die so other things can come
• Sophisticated leadership skills needed
• New definition of leadership
• Not everyone wants to play a role
• Getting stakeholders to believe in their power
• Fear of starting
• Lack of confidence in stakeholders
• Money
• Overcoming assumption about lack of co-creative potential
• Changes and leadership and structure over time
• Loosing focus
• Selection process – what / who doesn´t get included
• How do I fuel the fire rather than be it
• Power over vs power with
• Short term world vs longer terms needed
• Parameter standards
• Strong leadership and passion are imperative
• Things fall apart in fully co-creative modalities
• Hard to maintain the spirit, values, processes etc., in the continuity … with expansion? And
deliver results.
• Not to create dogma
3) What is the value of co-creation?
• Need definition
• Non hierarchical
• Empowering people to make decisions the others wouldn´t
• Rotating leads
• Diversity of intelligence and experience leads to better decisions
• Shared understanding
• Shared ownership
• Empowering
• Builds capacity in context
• Solutions emerge that wouldn´t otherwise
• Energy flow
• Confluence
• Creating / magnifying power
• Increase in community during ramp up / ramp down
• Standing naked before the crowd
• Not one on your own
• Power of the collective vs the hero syndrome
• Interactive do- listen -learn –reflect
• Change mindset of those involved
• Non zero sum = win-win-win
• Stakeholders become investors in outcomes and outputs
• More value for everyone
• Feeling of connection and belonging
• Different perspectives and insights for complex contexts
• Build a team through partnership
• Learning from collective self-reflection
• Encouraging voice