RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation

Mindset shift crucial for collective impact.

For changemakers we must look deep into our approach and change our mindsets and retool assumptions continuously.

A recent article in Stanford Social Innovation Review "Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact" 

"The widespread momentum around collective impact is exciting. It demonstrates a vital shift for organizations, away from considering their work in isolation and toward seeing their work in the context of a broader system, paving the way for large-scale change. The five conditions, however, are not by themselves sufficient. Achieving collective impact requires the fundamental mindset shifts we have described here—around who is involved, how they work together, and how progress happens. These shifts have significant implications for how practitioners design and implement their work, how funders incentivize and engage with grantees, and how policymakers bring solutions to a large scale. Without these vital mindset shifts, collective impact initiatives are unlikely to make the progress they set out to accomplish."