WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?We create impactful immersive containers to elicit engagement and action from audience.

RIPPLES! STORYA little boy was dawdling along the ocean, as he toyed with his favorite cup in his hand. He told his mother, “Mom, I want to collect the entire ocean in my cup”. The mother encouraged him to persevere at his desire. Even after much effort, the boy could only collect so much water in his cup. The boy was on the brink of losing hope; the mother held out his cup and threw it in the ocean. She told her son, “If the ocean cannot come to you, then you can go to the ocean”.

ABOUT USWe design change through narratives (entertainment education), flipped mindsets (positive deviance), and tweaking how people interact (liberating structures). We are for-purpose storytellers creating impactful immersive containers to elicit engagement and action from audience. Our mission is to partner with organizations to generate and produce innovative and evidence based communication & change mechanisms that enable communities to grow from the inside-out!

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We, The Change Designers, were born on December 21, 2016. It began with questions and curiosity and some inspiration from the science of complexity and design thinking.We design change (not the other way around), believing that change is not linear, but a cyclical process that requires adaptation, facilitation, and tweaking at macro & micro level.It is not what we do, but how we do it that makes us different! We use narrative based approaches to address complexities!

Anu and Pallavi, want to create RIPPLES! of change all around us!

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SMALL THINGS MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCEThe Launch of The Change DesignersThe Change Designers launched themselves on December 21, 2016 with ‘Small things make a Big Difference’, an exclusive workshop on Communication for Social Change, facilitated by Dr. Arvind Singhal, Ph.D., Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor, Department of Communication, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.The Change designers have a longtime association with Dr. Arvind Singhal. Anu was Dr. Arvind Singhal’s M.A. Communication student at The University of Texas at El Paso, 2012-2014 and has worked in collaboration on many projects with Dr. Singhal since.

Anu SachdevAnu earned two masters’ degrees from the University of Delhi and University of Texas in communication for social change strategies.She specializes in entertainment- education, positive deviance, liberating structures, and complexity-inspired change management.

Pallavi JainPallavi earned her dual masters’ degrees in communication from London School of Economics and University of Southern California.She specializes in communication management, entertainment-education and effective social campaign and mobilization.

Dr. Arvind Singhal facilitating a ‘Fishbowl’, Liberating Structure, with Anu & Pallavi at the inaugural launch workshop of The Change Designers on December 21, 2016.

A huge shout out to Social Justice Initiative, The University of Texas, El Paso, for supporting The Change Designers and entering into a collaborative partnership. Explore the SJI WORLD HERE.

A three-hour interactive workshop was designed using innovative design change mechanisms, liberating structures, allowed participants to engage in powerful conversations, share stories of social change and fathom the importance of creating ripples of change within systems without changing the system. The takeaway of the workshop was how small tweaks; initiatives, efforts and changes can create a big difference. This power of creating change lies inside all of us, making us all THE CHANGE DESIGNERS.

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Change Designers, Anu & Pallavi, celebrating the launch of The Change Designers at the inaugural workshop.

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A BIG Thank You to all the well wishers for the launchof The Change Designers

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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?We create impactful immersive containers to elicit engagement and action from audience.

DESIGNING CHANGEEk Zindagi Aisi Bhi, A Life We Aspire For- A radio drama series promoting good air quality in Uttar Pradesh

A six-episode entertainment-education radio drama series designed with the objective to promote solutions and mobilize people to action to improve air quality in Uttar Pradesh (UP), heart of India’s northern belt. The show is broadcast on 18 All India Radio stations, India’s national public broadcasting system across UP and Uttarakhand; four community radio stations including one at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. This radio show is a part of the 100% UP campaign designed and implemented by The Change Designers, facilitated by PCI Media Impact, New York and funded by Purpose Campaigns, New York to make UP, India’s most polluted state, 100% clean.

LISTEN TOEK ZINDAGI AISI BHI

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Inspired students at The Bal Bhartiya School, Varanasi, demanding a 100% Clean Uttar Pradesh.

Anu conducting a group discussion with women in Varanasi during formative research for the radio dramas in Uttar Pradesh

for 100% Clean UP Campaign.

Anu, in the field, conducting a group discussion with women in Varanasi during formative research for the radio dramas in

Uttar Pradesh for 100% Clean UP Campaign.

The Change Designers working with school students in Varanasi to involve them in improving air quality.

12 EPISODE SERIES FOR PROMOTION OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TIMOR-LESTE

In the aim to build women entrepreneurship in the world’s second newest nation, Timor-Leste, a creative story development exercise on it’s way! With national organization, Ba Futuru (For the Future), we are building capacity of the in country staff of the organization to develop entertaining storylines to include educational messages for promotion of women entrepreneurship in the country. A 12-episode series is under development for USAID’s Avansa Agricultura Program.

POSITIVE DEVIANCE AND WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN INDIA

A unique and pioneering Positive Deviance inquiry to find successful women entrepreneurs in India that have overcome complex odds is underway with India’s leading Microfinance Institute, CASHPOR in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The project is being carried out in close collaboration with the Social Justice Initiative, The University of Texas at El Paso.

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Pallavi in discussion with a group of women in Uttar Pradesh in her quest to find Positive Deviant women entrepreneurs.

PHOTO GALLERY

The torchbearers of the country unleash their vison of a clean India by displaying their creativity on paper.

Discovering new learning tools: Anu with teachers, staff and principal after a liberating structures workshop to flip classroom

interactions at Bal Bhartiya School, Varanasi.

The Change Designers with Dr. Arvind Singhal and the faculty members of Lady Irwin College.

A group of women in Varanasi walk back home with heaps of rewoo to carr out their omestic acti ities

Inspired students at The Bal Bhartiya School, Varanasi, demanding a 100% Clean Uttar Pradesh.

Dr. Arvind Singhal in action at the inaugural launch workshop of The Change Designers on December 21, 2016.

The ‘Whistle Blowers’, the on ground team of the 100% UP Project in Varanasi celebrating the joy of becoming ‘Change Designers’.

Anu with a group of motivated students at The Bal Bhartiya School, Varanasi, committing to make India clean and pollution free.

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