CMOCC's Theory of Change
THE COLORADO MEN OF COLOR COLLABORATIVE
EXIST TO CREATE SYSTEM CHANGE THROUGH NETWORKS OF
RADICAL CONTAINERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY
EMPOWERMENT FROM MEN AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
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System Change in Action
System Change in Action
The Water of Systems Change aims to clarify what it means to shift key conditions for systems change. The MODEL offers an “inverted triangle” framework as an actionable model for CMOCC and others interested in creating systems change, particularly those who are working to advance equity.
Top Takeaways
Systems change is about advancing equity by shifting the conditions that hold a problem in place.
To fully embrace systems change, funders should be prepared to see how their own ways of thinking and acting must change as well.
Shifts in system conditions are more likely to be sustained when working at three different levels of change: explicit, semi-explicit, and implicit. (Kania, 2018)
Radical Containers
Radical Containers
As an extension of the systems change model, Kania (2020) developed a concept called radical containers, exploring intentional ways of working together that transform connections, learning, and collective potential among people in systems. This radical container structure was the missing piece from community work.
Kania (2020) locates five distinctive parts above to radical containers: deep relational work; inner and outer change; space for healing; transformed power dynamics; and serendipity and the sacred.
This model seeks transformative change in practice, through more radical and relational ways of working with these five qualities:
Deep relational workspace for healing
Inviting in the sacred
Inner change that leads to outer change
Transforming power dynamics (Milligan et al., 2022).
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