There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, \u201cMorning, boys. How\u2019s the water?\u201d And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, \u201cWhat the hell is water?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The report suggests that in order to effect change, we must become aware of the \u201cwater\u201d around us: systemic forces and constraints that create and perpetuate the current situation. Basically, we need to know why things are in order to change how they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The document \u2014 produced by FSG, a nonprofit that consults globally on issues relating to social change \u2014 creates a framework in which to begin identifying and becoming aware of the The framework theorizes that there are \u201csix interdependent conditions that typically play significant roles in holding a social or environmental problem in place.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They organize the six conditions in an inverted pyramid with three levels of systems change: explicit, semi-explicit, and implicit, where \u201cimplicit\u201d is the most \u201cfoundational driver\u201d and at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We can position the work of the various organizations and people within this framework. I’ve set up a Miro board to map some of the ideas out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Please browse and add ideas to the board below<\/strong>! Ideas can be work you’ve heard about happening or that you’d like to see happen or anything you think connects. Unfinished thoughts welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Denys Candy, director of the Jandon Center and my advisor for this project, lent me a packet called \u201cThe Water of Systems Change,\u201d indeed, systems change. The “water” comes from a parable from a speech by David Foster Wallace: There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4719,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Inverted](\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ccx400-fa23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1021\/2023\/11\/image.png\")
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