Transforming Collaborative Systems:

Creating New Conversations

The University of Austin at Texas
Health Innovation and Evaluation Team
Chris Allen, Robin Atwood, Jennifer Bloom Greenberg, Liza Hinojosa, Melissa Wilson

November 29, 2018

TEXAS HIV/STD Conference
 Transforming Leadership

Leaders ID problem & intervention Leaders & locals ID shared need

Communication
Leadership supports
&
locals to generate
Training
Successful -Purpose
practices -Desired outcome
adopted -Action plan

Frontlines expected to adopt change Positive practices discovered

Source:
New approaches invented Liz Rykert and Claire Mallette
 We are at a threshold moment…
Rate of Change

We are here

Time
Source: Google X Research and Development Lab (as presented in “Thank You for Being Late,” By Thomas Friedman)
Transforming Systems through Collaboration

Source: Liz Rykert and Claire Mallette, Culture Change in a Complex Environment, Friday, June 3, 2016
https://plexusinstitute.org/plexuscalls-archive-library/plexuscalls-2016/
Tools for Navigating Collaborative Leadership
Openness
1-2-4-All
Three days at Texas HIV/STD Conf…
What makes you feel concerned?
What makes you feel excited?
1) Reflect and write (1-2 min)
2) Pair and share (2 min)
4) Join with another pair…what are the themes? (4 min)
All) Full group debrief (10 min)
Liberating Structures: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/
Curiosity
Both…and…Mindset

▶ Perspective depends on where we are standing.

▶ Cultivating a “both/and” mindset can help us see

things from multiple angles, creating the possibility
for solutions we might not have seen otherwise.
 Wicked Questions:

How is it that we are both

___ and ___ simultaneously?
▶ List pairs of opposites (2 min)
▶ Ex., improve & maintain, priorities & de-stigmatizing, planning & being open
▶ Small groups come up with one Wicked Question each (5 min)
▶ Large group sharing (10 minutes)
▶ Dot voting
Liberating Structures: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/
 Brain Byte:
Creativity
& 100 billion neurons
Reason

The
Embodied Compassion 80 thousand neurons

Brain

100 million neurons

Source: Grant Soosalu and Marvin Oka, Neuroscience and the Three Brains of Leadership, http://www.mbraining.com/mbit-and-leadership
Imagination Rules

1. Imagination happens. Let it.

2. Don’t listen to anyone else. “See the world in

your own unique way.”

3. Write it down. “Gather the ingredients.”

4. Share it. “A mind stretched to a new idea does

not return to its original shape.”

5. Embrace imagination as it is, without judgment.

Imagination fires in a relaxed brain.
Source: Brian Reich, The Imagination Gap
 15% Solutions…

How do we embrace change while

maintaining critical systems?
Being open & curious…and letting your imagination run wild…
 What is your 15 percent?

 Where do you have discretion and freedom to act?

 What can you do without more resources or authority?
Focus: The Domino Effect

▶ https://youtu.be/y97rBdSYbkg
What is your next domino?

What is the one next thing

YOU can do to build momentum and
energy to move you in the direction you
want to go?
Reflection
So
what?
What?

Now what?

What? So what? Now what? Source: Adaptive Action, https://www.hsdinstitute.org/resources/adaptive-action.html

 Evaluation

What stood out to you?

What is one thing you will try?

We appreciate your feedback!

For more information contact Robin D. Atwood: Ratwood@austin.utexas.edu