After the plan: how to make it happen?

Duncan (host), Peter Burden

A missed target is pointless; need to be real and achievable.

Targets must be sufficient to solve the problem.

We must look at what is achievable - and up our game if what seems achievable is not enough to solve the problem.

It’s not about ‘giving up’ a lifestyle, but about ‘taking up’ a better lifestyle.

Pure ‘measurement’ based targets don’t work, eg weight watchers.

Banning smoking levered behaviour change. Has brought new mind frame.

We need to be the agents of a new common sense.

We are creatures of habit. Change the habit changes the habit of mind. So ACTION is essential. So projects are key.

Plan must be centred around active projects which engage many people.

Action and project must be part of moving, but we must keep the vision towards a destination.

1. Do something different 2. Join with other complementary people – see Dragon Dreaming 3. Open up to new vision/possibilities/common sense 4. Measure your progress towards your destination and re-evaluate individual and collective action: momentum, tipping point of consiousness and action!! 5. Do something more: virtuous circle building momentum

Strategic actions

  • Action focus
  • Facilitate others
  • Do action - understand benefit - pass it on
  • Get ‘visible projects’
  • But vision must guide building forward movement
  • Overview must keep priorities in view
  • Leadership developed in everyone: the ability to act differently, to take responsibility

PS There needs to be more thinking about evaluation processes once the Plan is embarked upon so that something happens if critical milestones are missed. More thinking about systems to make change happen needs to be built into the EDAP. We must be realistic about how exactly we are to achieve our pathway to the future. We too must do lifecycle analysis. Doing anything nowadays nearly always involves burning fossil fuel.

We have to become good at complexity, to see and foster the creative interdependencies that are a localised system. These interconnections help make a stable ecosystem where a small failure of one part is not catastrophic and is often compensated for by the other parts.

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