Getting moving
This chapter tracks the stages of initiation and development of the LEVERS projects. The nine LEVERS partners followed these processes together.
Our different journeys didn’t unfold at the same pace or even in the same order as this chapter but often skipped around between the sections; you might find the same with yours depending on your context and dependencies between different aspects of your project. Even once projects are established these processes may prove useful to revisit in light of new learnings and changing contexts.
In this stage of work the nine Learning Ventures are setting a course, by expressing their ambition and finding shared goals. It’s not about a preferred course of action, but describing – and interrogating – desired outcomes.
This starting point can be revisited as the process progresses.
In this stage of work the Learning Ventures take a step back to ask: what makes the existing system the way it is? Why is it not better already?
Asking these questions helps identify where in the system we might work to maximise our impact
In this stage of work, building on the ambition and knowledge accrued in the first two stages, we move towards ideas – the mechanisms that might be used to shift the system.
This requires further study, of who this is for and who it might affect.
The nine Learning Ventures are now at varying stages of this firming up and commitment making process, reflecting how different scales of work and organisational contexts require different toolkits even within similar approaches.