November 2019

Find the full newsletter here: Updates from Albertan Changemakers (November 2019)

Resources

1. Engaging People with Living / Lived Experience
   Informed by the 10 Lived/Living Experience Advisory Committee, this Tamarack Institute guide offers ideas, stories, resources, and ways to get started for poverty-reduction groups seeking to meaningfully engage people with lived/living experience.
   

2. Valuing Tension to Drive Innovation
   In this blog post, Corey Sullivan from Edmonton's Systemic Design Exchange community of practice (SDX) reflects on what he learned from a recent session about valuing tension, which was facilitated by the InWithForward team. Corey includes links and descriptions of some of the helpful resources and tools shared in the session.
   

3. Indigenous Services at the Calgary Public Library
   The Calgary Public Library has dedicated a team focused on Indigenous engagement, to ensure Library programs and services are designed around community needs. Take a look at their commitment to reconciliation here and find out how they've integrated Indigenous learning into the library.
   

4. Four Calgary Social Enterprises win $25,000 each at the Inaugural What’s Next YYC Awards
   Ten nominees had two minutes each to present and capture the hearts, and votes, of the audience. Here's a recap of what happened at the What's Next YYC event last Thursday. Congratulations to all of the social enterprises recognized at this event.

Opportunities

1. In the Thick of it Program - Thinking about Systems Leadership (Early Bird Applications due Nov. 30)
   Have you been leading a systems change initiative for at least two years? The Systems Sanctuary offers peer-coaching programs designed to support a growing community of pioneers experimenting with solutions to systemic social and environmental problems. Consider applying to join their next cohort. Details here.
   

2. Braiding Stories to Live By: Nurturing the Next Generations of Indigenous Young Women (Dec 4 in Fort McMurray)
   The Vibrant Communities Speaker Series presents a conversation with the Braiding Stories to Live By team. Attend this free evening event to learn about the Indigenous Young Women’s gatherings that have been co-created and piloted in Fort McMurray.
   

3. Leaning Into Disruption: Partnerships and Systems Change (Dec. 4 in Calgary)
   Partnership plays a powerful role in addressing communities most pressing problems. This one day workshop will use interactive learning to explore how to address systems-level change, uncertainty, and complexity through partnerships.
   

4. Prototype for Empathy with the Systemic Design Exchange (Dec. 6 in Edmonton)
   Gain a deep understanding of the theory and application of empathy as a practice in systems change: Join the Systemic Design Exchange (SDX) to explore the concept of empathy in an interactive way.
   

5. Social Summit: From Isolation to Connection (Dec. 9-10 in Sherwood Park)
   Strathcona County Family and Community Services are inviting community practitioners, innovators, and change agents to their conference that holds space to think and learn about loneliness and social isolation: an emerging public health crisis. You'll leave with the tools to take action in your work, community, and life.
   

6. Social Innovation Canada is Hiring! (Apply by Dec. 15)
   Social Innovation Canada is looking for a Program Manager and Program Assistant for the Social R&D Ecosystem Mobilization Initiative. This is part of the Federal Government’s Investment Readiness Program (IRP), which aims to improve shared understanding of the most effective approaches to building the social finance ecosystem and to establish or expand initiatives that address ecosystem gaps.