personal recovery and social innovation in new dust bowl times
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Whether the challenge you face came on suddenly or accumulated around you, there is a basic human toolkit that helps create a way forward. Whether you have many resources or few, ou can find strategies for innovation to find solutions to the world's most difficult problems. Paul Komarek's presention is motivational, positive, and forward-thinking, suitable for church groups, prisoner re-entry, mental health and addiction recovery, as well as job hunters or anyone who is stuck, with a path that's not clear.TRANSCRIPT
Personal Recovery and Social Innovation in New Dust Bowl Times
Paul Komarek
www.paulkomarek.us
Twitter @pkomarek
What has happened?
Where is the path?
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire, it’s all over the evening news.Paul Simon
Not where things should be
Good and Bad
There is a road through the storm
Basic Human Toolkit
Planning
Learn about what you’re facing
Find allies to support you
Find resources to work with
Plan short-term and long-term
Follow your plan
Four Questions for RecoveryWhat helps you make the most of your talents?
How can you reduce the areas where you are vulnerable?
How can you improve your ability to cope with stress?
How can you deal with the risk of something going wrong?
www.viame.org
Find your element
Where the things you're good at and the things you love to do come together.
Innovate
IDEO Human Centered Design
Radical Efficiency
1. Make true partnership with users the best choice for everyone.
2. Enable committed, passionate and open-minded leaders to emerge from anywhere.
3. Start with people’s quality of life not the quality of your service.
4. Work with the grain and in the spirit of families, friends and neighbors.
5. Manage risks, don’t just avoid them.
The answer is not within the existing system. The existing system is the problem.
-- Doug Hall
System Leverage Points
12 Numbers. Constants and parameters such as subsidies, taxes, and standards11 Buffers. The sizes of stabilizing stocks relative to their flows10 Stock-and-Flow Structures. Physical systems and their nodes of intersection 9 Delays. The lengths of time relative to the rates of system changes
System Leverage Points
8 Balancing Feedback Loops. The strength of the feedbacks relative to the impacts they are trying to correct 7 Reinforcing Feedback Loops. The strength of the gain of driving loops 6 Information Flows. The structure of who does and does not have access to information 5 Rules. Incentives, punishments, constraints
System Leverage Points
4 Self-Organization. The power to add, change, or evolve system structure 3 Goals. The purpose or function of the system 2 Paradigms. The mindset out of which the system—its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters—arises. 1 Transcending Paradigms
Spread SuccessDe-professionalize it.Make it simple.Make it free or cheap.Make it social.Send it everywhere.
Hip hop is based on a single, brilliant insight: while musical instruments and musical training are expensive and hard to get, recorded music is ubiquitous. So a group of mostly-young, mostly-black, and mostly-New York-based musicians started using music to make music.
Where to start?
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