IFRC Learn to Change Innovation Summit Doha 6

IFRC Learn to Change Innovation Summit Doha, 6 October 2019

Levels of Listening 1: Downloading From Habits of Judgement Listening 2: Factual From Outside Noticing Differences Listening 3: Empathic From Within Emotional Connection Listening 4: Generative From the Whole Listening to Whole System Reconfirming Old Opinions Open Mind Disconfirming (New) Data Open Heart Seeing through Another Person’s Eyes Open Will Connecting to an Emerging Future : Seeing the System’s Present & Future Potential

William O’Brien, former CEO of the Hanover Insurance Company

1. What is the context we are operating in? How is it changing? What is ending? What is emerging?

2. How is this affecting our work? What changes do we see we need to go through individually and collectively?

3. What is our learning edge? What do we need to learn to successfully navigate these changes? What learning practices are we experimenting with?

Dialogue Walk - in groups of 2 or 3 Take turns to respond to the following questions: • What brought me here professionally and personally? (your personal/professional journey, 2 -3 defining moments, choices people that shaped your life) • What is brewing in my work and life right now? What is it my personal “quest”, the key things I am currently pursuing? Observe your listening. Each person takes 10 minutes to share. Make sure each one of you has a chance to share. Be back at…

IFRC Learn to Change Phase 1

count Total participants IFRC Volunteers Youth Branch staff or volunteers Reference centres Number of NS & Ref centers Average participant/NS L 2 C - who are we? 264 56 37 31 24 5 90 2. 3 percent 100% 21% 14% 12% 9% 2%

Learn to Change Outcomes for Phase 1 Pilot – Sept – Dec 2019 1. An initial framework and toolkit – co-created with first cohort - to support organizational learning for ongoing development by entire RC/RC system from 2020 2. A diverse, motivated and mobilized cohort of leaders across the system that model the capabilities of learning leaders, & become key champions for the 2020 expansion of Learn to Change

Methodology Using Theory U, a methodology developed by MIT Professor Otto Scharmer to guide teams through the practices of learning organizations and systems innovation UNCOVER COMMON INTENT STOP and LISTEN to OTHERS OBSERVE, OBSERVE CONNECT with DIVERSE PEOPLE & PLACES to SENSE the SYSTEM from the WHOLE INSTITUTIONALIZE THE NEW IN PRACTICES by LINKING MICRO, MESO, MACRO CHANGE PROTOTYPE THE NEW in LIVING EXAMPLES, To EXPLORE the FUTURE by DOING CONNECT TO THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION & POTENTIAL