Humans are strongly motivated by two forces: love and money*. When pursuing change and seeking to better things we often look at ways to gain more money as the solution, but what about love? What if we fell in love with our challenge? (*Money can be a proxy for security, safety, and opportunity.) Love as …
Change through design is the fundamental feature of innovation. This page and the innovation toolkit that it’s a part of are one of the ways we seek to share our experience of innovation. Innovation is very natural, but also something we can learn. To provide alternative ways to learn about innovation and change-making we’ve launched …
Among the greatest means to promoting sustained behaviour change is to create healthy (beneficial) habits. The science of behaviour change provides many recommendations for how to form, break, and maintain good habits. While we often believe that beliefs change habits, we often find that behaviours themselves can just as profoundly affect our beliefs. There are …
Two powerful approaches to creating healthy habits are to bundle or stack behaviours together, by design. If we can learn to connect what we do in small ways to other things we can make big changes more easily. For innovators seeking and making change, these two approaches can help break down a big goal into …
The concept of Theory of Change is meant to provide program planners and evaluators with guidance on how to make sense of the mechanisms that guide how something transforms. Theory of Change as a technique is usually visual, participatory and consultative in nature, and is something that is developed alongside the program itself. What is …
