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Technical Considerations

Accelerating Change. Together

Getting to Results with Sustainability Transition Labs

Chad Park and Saralyn Hodgkin

April 24, 2014


Your hosts

Saralyn Hodgkin Director of Collaboration Programs and Evaluation

Chad Park Executive Director


Purpose today

To explore concepts and approaches

underpinning the Sustainability Transition Lab

projects, the activities leading us to impact, and

the individual STL projects themselves


Sustainability Transition Lab

A multi-stakeholder approach to tackling complex social and

environmental challenges that no one party can address on its own.

• Aimed at addressing barriers to sustainability in a system

• Facilitated to involve diverse stakeholders with the will to act

and capacity to influence • Focused on generating tangible breakthrough results

• Co-designed and co-delivered with strategic partners


Sustainability Transition Lab


Wicked problems to wicked opportunities

How do we provide a platform for

sustainability-driven collaboration in which

participants are able to embrace complexity,

and reframe ‘wicked problems’ as ‘wicked

opportunities’?


Sustainability-Driven Collaboration

• Focus on value creation

• Vision as the driving force

• Simplicity without reduction

• Authentic leadership

• Strong process design


A blend of concepts and approaches

• Framework for Strategic Sustainable

Development

• Theory U

• Developmental Evaluation

• Change Labs

• Partnership Brokering

• Collective Impact


Desired Outcomes

Breakthrough results (the splash)

• Changes in public policy or resource flows

• new programs or initiatives

• new standards or partnerships

• game-changing new business models

Ripples:

• Long-term commitment to system-level collaboration

• Sustainability literacy

• Widely held vision of sustainability

• Renewed sense of hope and interconnectedness


Sustainability Transition Lab Process


Activities Leading us to Impact

• Design

• Practice

• Field Building

• Interventions


Design

• Design to transform relationships, insights

and the will to act (being and doing)

• Based on 25 years of building learningful

experiences

• Systems thinking, backcasting,

science-based definition of

sustainability


Practice

• Learning and adapting to what emerges

• Collaborating for a collective impact

• Placing the issue at the centre

• Holding to our hypothesis

• Enabling traits and skills

• STL Tribe


Field Building

• Engaging in the field beyond the projects

• Building a Fieldbook of practice

• Plurality of labs – testing a hypothesis


The Interventions


Learning from STL Projects

• Towards a Gold-standard Benchmark for Sustainable Business (aka FutureFit Business Benchmark) http://futurefitbusiness.org/

• GTA Housing Action Lab • www.naturalstep.ca/gta-housing-action-lab

• Sustainability Literacy • www.naturalstep.ca/sustainability-literacy

http://futurefitbusiness.org/

http://www.naturalstep.ca/gta-housing-action-lab







http://www.naturalstep.ca/sustainability-literacy




When is a Sustainability Transition Lab a good fit for a project/issue?

• Absence of shared vision of success and/or clear policy direction

• Existing initiatives require alignment and amplification for impact

• Difficulty handling trade offs (e.g. social, environmental, economic) in decision-making

• Need for a shared language and mental model

• Desire to drive innovation efforts and design solutions

• Transition framing can help get uncommon collaborators together


Let’s share, learn together, and accelerate the transition to a sustainable society

Learn more and register at: naturalstep.ca/accelerate

Discount code: TNS10

Panelists and speakers will include:

• Peter Senge

• Jenn Heil

• Nick Parker

• And more


The Natural Step Canada 251 Bank Street, 5th Floor

Ottawa, ON, K2P 1X3

(613) 748-3001

Thank You!

naturalstep.ca/sustainability-transition-lab

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