WELCOME CHANGEMAKERS!
This page provides you with some resources to start developing your own toolkit as a changemaker to lead, educate, facilitate, and advocate for social change. The following ChangeMakers Way principles and resources would help you begin creating or expanding your impact. Join the community mailing list for further access, updates, suggestions, or any feedback.
The GIFT of intentional energy in impacting others is CONNECTEDNESS. Whether you like it or not, you are already creating an impact, it’s a question of what kind of impact are you creating with your energy. How do others perceive and receive you? How can you create the impact you desire?
The GIFT of curiosity and openness is AWAKENING AND ALIVENESS. With curiosity and openness we learn, we grow, we evolve. This is the essence of ChangeMaking. How curious are you? Find out with the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory.
Congruence is about awareness of the intentions behind our actions. While similar to integrity, congruence is distinctly different. Integrity is about living according to our values.
The GIFT of excellence every step of the way, doing the best that we can, is SATISFACTION and a sense of PRIDE.
ChangeMakers navigate the unknown with intuitive intelligence. Once evidence is presented, we back ourselves with it and correct our course as needed.
The GIFT of owning your attention is PERSONAL POWER. As a ChangeMaker, we need to be able to own our attention first, before we can lead, direct, and influence others’ attention. Test your attention with the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale.
Flow follows discipline. Mastery brings grace and ease to our actions. This sense of ease, in turn, puts others at ease. Mastery creates gravitas backed by credibility. It inspires confidence instead of resistance. Find out how you can develop personal mastery through systems thinking.
Eco-centric worldview integrates and creates sustainability. Ego-centric worldview fragments, creating conflicts and anxiety. Learn to make ecological choices that enable collective well-being, lightness of being, and deep satisfaction that we are making a positive impact on the world.
LINKS AND RESOURCES
CONNECTEDNESS and well-being
Everything is Connected
Campaign to End Loneliness
New Economics Foundation
Social Connection 101 (Guide)
Social Connectedness: A Framework (Paper)
Transition Network
Using Wellbeing for Public Policy (Paper)
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
tools for social change
Barefoot Guide to Social Change
Beautiful Trouble - Creative Resources for a Just World
CUSP - Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
Essential Guide to Doing Transition
A Guide to Mapping Ecologies of Practice
Tools for Social Change
Swarm Dynamics
Wellbeing Economy Policy Design Guide
Inspiration and narratives
Freedom From the Money Culture
Forest Man - Reforestation of an Island (India)
Short Animations: Hope (2020)
Short Animation: The Wrong Rock
Short Animation: Migrants
Tales to Tell
INDIGENOUS AND ANCESTRAL WISDOM
Ancestral Wisdom and Spiritual Practices for Healing (Caribbean)
Ayurveda Library (Online)
Ayurveda - National Library of Ayurveda Medicine
Babaylan - Powerful Mystical Women (Philippines)
Engaging Indigenous Australians in Environmental Management
Indigenous Knowledge Guidance For Federal Agencies (USA)
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Juliette of the Herbs - Pioneer of Holistic Herbal Medicine
Traditional Knowledge by Down to Earth
Transformative Education on Indigenous Lands
Funding social Change
Climate Action and Sustainability (Mostly UK)
Funds for NGOs
Social Finance for Social Economy (Whitepaper)
Collaboration across artists, environmentalists, academics, mobility justice, sustainability and well-being advocates.
Imagine your future. Get unstuck. Envision new realities. Every ChangeMaker starts with a vision of a better and brighter future. To aspire for something that brings us to our greatest potential requires imagination. It requires us to go beyond the limits of our current realities.