Our Score: Wayfinder 2020 Behind the Scenes No. 1 — Tuning No. 2 — Ensembling No. 3 — Playing No. 4 — Magic Artist-Composers Supporters
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shaping social innovation in urgent times
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Our Wayfinder World 2020 symphony started with our first movement, No. 1 — Tuning, uncovering, hearing and understanding what social innovation is happening now and how it is happening in different local contexts around the world.

The rich stories and new found relationships from the first movement are now our compass.

They guided us into our second movement, No. 2 — Ensembling. In this movement, we learned together to help embolden the actions we saw around the world by ‘ensembling’ globally: trying out different sounds, instruments, methods, approaches and arrangements to play together and to be in relationship with each other and the earth.

What are we learning across different contexts giving rise to desired futures?

This was where the global exchange began. People came together from different contexts to delve deeper into examples and actions, exchanging knowledge, resources, and insights, uncovering lessons from each other, and working out: What is timely now? What is having its time now? What is influencing our future?

To Ensemble

“a group of musicians, actors, or dancers who perform together”

“a group of items viewed as a whole rather than individually.”

 
 
 

The Four ensemble styles of wayfinder 2020

From a quartet to symphony to a flash mob, there are so many ways to come together in relationship to make music. Over the month of October, we introduced four types of ensembles: a mixture of different sizes, open/public and closed sessions conversations. All were spaces for challenging and honest conversations. Each was shaped by the harmony and dissonance that emerged during No. 1 — Tuning.

W used technology to combine and recombine groups to learn and action together, to write a metaphorical score or lyrics together or to improvise their way into moments of magic. We called it facilitated serendipity!

 
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Driving & Guiding Social Innovation

These two types of ensembles were open to the public. They aimed to inspire, to give hope and to invite honest exchange with a wider audience, amplifying and evaluating different and effective ways of innovating for social good happening now. Like onstage panel conversations or thematic breakout groups at gatherings, these ensembles drive and guide the field of social innovation, helping us devise music to practice together in our third movement, No. 3 — Playing.

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Open discussions between people in different parts of the world on big ideas, current actions and urgent agendas as we transition into a new future.

Open Duets might be thought of like a panel discussion at a gathering.

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Curated groups of 20-25 people from around the world who can provide different perspectives on a particular issue, a shared challenge or an interest area.

These sessions keep us centred on social innovation today and should lead to new strategic action in preparation for the third Movement — Playing. Open Ensembles are similar to thematic breakouts discussions at an in-person gathering

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Centring peer learning & relationship building

The two types of closed ensembles were relaxed and intimate spaces for peer learning and relationship building. They were grounded in offers and needs and aimed to build on the sense of possible collaborations or alliances that serendipitously form at an in-person event during private chats, dinners or coffee breaks.

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Closed Duets are between leading innovation doers globally.

At a time when the world is challenging, we’ve been told that connecting peers for private conversations and peer exchange has been extremely valuable. This is the moment in an in-person gathering when you grab someone for a private chat.

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These closed, intimate conversations build on the dine-around concept in the first movement, but move towards action.

We will bring together new combinations of people globally, as people see and hear that they are not alone. Previous dine-round hosts will meet each other and build new relationships. Think of this as the coffee break or lunch conversation at a gathering. We are designing this interaction with a focus on action: where could these conversations lead?

Whilst these conversations were closed, we have shared key insights out here:

 
 
 

PAST ENSEMBLING EVENTS

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Why scaling matters
Dec 11
Why scaling matters

Friday 6th November 2020, 16:00 GMT

In this session, Miquel de Paladella, CEO of UpSocial and Geraldine Cahill, Director of UpSocial Canada will come together to discuss why scaling social innovation is an important topic that needs more attention.

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Change moves at the speed of trust: The value and loss of relationships in today’s global society
Nov 6
Change moves at the speed of trust: The value and loss of relationships in today’s global society

Friday 6th November 2020, 16:00 GMT

In this Open Duet, we are bringing together two global thinkers/doers from Winnipeg, Canada and London, UK — Diane Roussin (Canada) and David Robinson (UK) — to reflect on the different lenses they have taken in their own decades-long work around building meaningful relationships to themselves, their communities and the natural world.

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Imagining culture as a dimension of long-term environmental policy
Nov 5
Imagining culture as a dimension of long-term environmental policy

Thursday 5th November 13:00 - 14:30 GMT (London) / 8:00-9:30 (Bogota)

As part of the #SIXWayfinder, we are holding an open workshop exploring How do we conceive the relationship between 'nature' and 'culture'?

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Making this moment count
Nov 3
Making this moment count

Tuesday 3rd November, 10:00 - 11:30 GMT

Making this moment count: How can we reinforce the efforts of civil society in Asia?

We have heard from players across Asia that, “we are at our brightest moment right now”, with philanthropic, public and private bodies exploring new forms of organising, coordinating resources and influencing agendas for the common good. Is there applicable knowledge to be gained from different local contexts? How can longer-lasting support structures be built so as not to forget the important role that civil society plays or waste this valuable moment?

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The Changing Role of Public Servants: How do we make the unusual more usual? (2)
Oct 30
The Changing Role of Public Servants: How do we make the unusual more usual? (2)

30th October, 12:30 - 14:00 GMT

Many public service innovators are thinking creatively, connecting stakeholders, asking critical questions, seeking out peers outside of their immediate sector or context. But by exchanging questions, ideas and next steps, and learning from other unusual suspects in public service innovation, we can find full energy and commitment for the road ahead.

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The Changing Role of Public Servants: How do we make the unusual more usual? (1)
Oct 29
The Changing Role of Public Servants: How do we make the unusual more usual? (1)

29th October, 12:30 - 14:00 GMT

Many public service innovators are thinking creatively, connecting stakeholders, asking critical questions, seeking out peers outside of their immediate sector or context. But by exchanging questions, ideas and next steps, and learning from other unusual suspects in public service innovation, we can find full energy and commitment for the road ahead.

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Community-led Innovation: Resilient citizen’s action
Oct 29
Community-led Innovation: Resilient citizen’s action

Thursday 29th October, 10:00-11:00 GMT

In this dialogue, we have invited Bosco Ng from WEDO Global to share their initiatives in HK in supporting ethnic minorities and Sanon Wangsrangboon from Locall Thailand to discuss how they support local businesses to survive in this difficult time. How do we harness the collective intelligence of the citizens and continue in the post-pandemic era?

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How to support community innovation through bridging across sectors
Oct 27
How to support community innovation through bridging across sectors

Tuesday 27th October 2020, 10:00 GMT

In this Open Duet, we are bringing together two global thinkers/doers from Malaysia and Greece — Amalia Zepou (Greece) and Hamdan Majeed (Malaysia), to reflect on community innovation through bridging across sectors.

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How do you shape different possible futures for cities?
Oct 21
How do you shape different possible futures for cities?

Wednesday 21st October 2020, 19:00 BST

In this Open Duet, we are bringing together two global thinkers/doers from North and South America — Javier Guillot (Colombia) and Jayne Engle (Canada), to reflect on how we can shape different futures for our cities.

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The ‘how’ matters 2
Oct 21
The ‘how’ matters 2

Wednesday 21 October, 08:00am - 09:30am BST

The How Matters — Challenges in building long-term trust and demonstrating value in the midst of a pandemic.

There is a growing feeling amongst both donors and civil society organisations that the way we measure impact is only seeing “part of the moon.” Despite a general agreement that networks and infrastructure is vital to social innovation, the ‘how’ is harder to explain than the what and the way (and perhaps as a consequence), as one dine-around participant noted, “nobody wants to fund it”.

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