Leading disruption to improve wellbeing Marion Blake CEO

Leading disruption to improve wellbeing Marion Blake CEO, Platform Trust, New Zealand /Platform. Charitable. Trust @Platform. Trust

Another policy/strategy paper alone will not change the world or, as Peter Drucker says: “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ”

New ways of organising Collaboration, merger partnership, alliances Moving from organising around interest groups to organising around the ‘emerging whole’. Shared awareness of connection/mutual interest/whole system. Leading from the Emerging Future: from Ego-system to Ecosystem – Otto Scharmer Katrin Kaufer

NZ Navigator Building cultural knowledge understanding the asset Equally Well Building the network, using the crowd and using the data On Track Co-creating a system

A collaboration of people and organisations taking action to improve physical health outcomes for people who experience mental health and addiction issues

Equally Well Building the network, using the crowd and using the evidence

The evidence

Tackling the challenge of improving physical health for people who live with mental health and addiction issues meant engaging the whole HEALTH system.

Building the network • Signing the consensus statement • Finding and growing the network • Who's interested /concerned /impacted? • It’s wider than you think…

Hawkes Bay District Health Board mental health and addictions services Southern DHB mental health and addictions directorate Wellbeing Wellington Level Health

Using the crowd • Using the crowd for evidence • Reliable base that keeps growing • Finding experts in New Zealand • Academics and researchers love it when you use their evidence • Target evidence to interest groups e. g. Heart Foundation, primary care

Using, keeping and growing the crowd #Equally. Well Staying connected using social technology - 250 users Creating the conversations they want to have Talking across interests, geography, professions, hierarchy Getting feedback Testing ideas Sharing cool stuff and woohoo moments Having a rave

The collaborative – the crowd

If people can see their part of the picture, they are happy to be responsible for that bit. Having a wide conversation, through multiple lenses, offers more solutions. Diversity matters! Good ideas travel fast.

“Many people are spending years living with undetected but treatable physical health problems needlessly and also some people are losing their lives because things have been picked up too late” Equally Well wins The. MHS award for innovation and excellence The. MHS Awards judging panel said it was impressed by Equally Well because, despite its minimal budget and relatively short life, it demonstrated that a great deal of value could be added to the health sector through collaboration around a common goal. It said that the number of organisations involved was impressive and the entry provided excellent examples of organisations creating change.

Find out more about Equally Well on the Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui website and sign up as a supporter! http: //www. tepou. co. nz/initiatives/equally-well-physical-health/37