Successful implementation of Agenda 2030 depends critically on unleashing the potential of place-based participatory approaches that engage communities and businesses in collaborative implementation. It is of paramount importance not to promote approaches that see each of the 17 goals as another silo and begin to tackle the different goals one by one without paying attention to their interrelationships. Designing a systemic and participatory process to enable an integrative approach to local and regional SDG implementationĪny effective course promoting systemic implementation of the SDGs would have to enable people to think about the goals in a more integrative and systemic way that leverages the potential synergies arising from implementing all the SDGs in a collaboration between local, regional, national and transnational stakeholders, engaging civil society along with public administration and private sector. The flashcards, the handbook, and the training of multipliers are based on this understanding and catalyze place-based collaboration and opportunities for collective intelligence and creativity to emerge. It is a continuous - community focussed journey of learning and adapting together, aiming for appropriate participation and widespread regeneration in the face of dynamic change and intermittent disruptions. There is no arriving at destination sustainability or destination regenerative cultures. If we hope to face the uncertainty that comes with informed awareness of the converging crises and opportunities with wisdom and response-ability, we need to become more systemically literate and adopt a living systems view of life. The fourth idea that centrally influenced my development work was to ensure the training would guide people to a more integrative and systemic way of thinking - about the SDGs and in general. It also lies at the heart of co-creating SDG implementation projects at the local and bioregional scale. I am convinced that living the questions together lies at the heart of the transition towards diverse regenerative cultures everywhere. Questions posed in the right setting with the right diversity of people in the room can invite cross-sectorial multi-stakeholder dialogue so people can work out what works for them and how. It is the conviction that while solutions and answers are useful, a much more effective way to generate lasting change that is adapted to the specific cultural, ecological, economic and social conditions of a particular place is to ask the right questions. The third component of the emerging process was borrowed from a notion that is central to my book ‘ Designing Regenerative Cultures’. What came to mind was the notion of creating an analogue teaching tool and a ‘ SDG Multipliers Handbook’ that together with the experience of participating in a one-day-training would enable people to replicate the ‘ Training of Multipliers’ with their teams, communities, or in schools, universities and town halls. The second Leitmotif I used to detail my own brief for a one day workshop was about how to scale this workshop and its impact on communities and organizations quickly and effectively. Only if we can stimulate these kind of conversations across and within sectors will we inspire widespread participation in projects aimed at promoting the implementation of the SDGs. It would invite dialogue about how the UN’s “Global Goals” could be brought home to individual communities, organizations and businesses in meaningful ways that respected local culture and the uniqueness of local ecosystems. I wanted to create a simple teaching tool that would help catalyze the all-important local scale conversations about the Sustainable Development Goals and how to implement them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. The first thing that came to mind was an inspirational Buckminster Fuller quote: In my role as ‘Head of Design & Innovation’ for Gaia Education, I was asked to develop a new one-day training to promote SDG implementation at the scale of communities, organizations and businesses. Defining my own design brief for a tool and process to spread conversations aimed at locally meaningful SDG implementation In December 2016 - a little over a year after the launch of the United Nations’ ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) and ‘ Agenda 2030’ - Gaia Education launched a day-long workshop format supported by a facilitation tool called the ‘ SDG Implementation Flashcards.’ The ‘ Training of Multipliers’ and the flashcards aim to promote cross-sectorial civic participation in the implementation of the SDGs at local, (bio)regional and sub-national scale. A quick way to co-design projects to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in your community, organization or business
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