tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28180852957177325242024-03-13T23:20:29.332-07:00Minnesota Next System Project CommunityMN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-66943068639065655962017-01-07T11:47:00.000-08:002017-01-07T11:47:11.801-08:00Women's March Minnesota January 21, 2017<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We are moving toward creating next systems. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We are organizing! We are marching!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Join us at the <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.womensmarchmn.com/" target="_blank">Women's March Minnesota</a> </span>on Saturday, January 21, from 10 am to 2pm. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.womensmarchmn.com/more-info" target="_blank">Convene</a></span> at St. Paul Community College and march to the State Capitol. Learn more<a href="http://www.womensmarchmn.com/" target="_blank"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">here</span>.</a> Register on the WMM website to discover more.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Vicki and Nance are traveling to the march by public<a href="http://www.womensmarchmn.com/transportation" target="_blank"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">transportation</span></a>. We are leaving from Linden Hills at about 9:30 am. We will gather at the Dunn Brothers at 43rd and Sheridan, starting at 9:00, or just meet at the bus stop on the corner by about 9:32. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Let's all meet at the march and rally, text Nance (612-437-6338) or Vicki (952-239-6198) to meet up in the SPCC Lot E and walk together. Bring your own banners and signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">After the march, around 2 </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">we will come together to warm up at the </span></span><a href="http://restaurants.applebees.com/mn/minneapolis/615-washington-ave-se.html" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">Applebee's</a><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> 615 Washington Ave SE in the Commons Hotel adjacent to the Greenline East Bank light rail stop (see </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.metrotransit.org/metro-green-line" target="_blank">map</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">). Let the Applebee's staff know you are with the Women’s March Minnesota group when you arrive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Looking forward to moving toward the next system with you in 2017!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In solidarity,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Vicki and Nance</span></div>
MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-8739107146958052132016-11-13T19:19:00.000-08:002016-11-13T19:54:28.204-08:00Coming Together to Create the Next SystemGreetings Next Systems Advocates,<br />
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Now is our time to come together to vision and enact new ways of being and building the Next Systems in America. What is the vision you have for the world? What does your heart want to create? What possibility do you hold in hope for the future of our country and our children and our planetary home?<br />
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During the month of November, the MN Next System Project Community is out in the field, that is our lives. We are trying out brave new ideas in small ways that will make a difference in moving us toward the next system of healthier communities. This note is a reminder to all who are in our community of practice to reach out to your partners and team up. Make connections, create a prototypes, come together for what's next. Reach out. We need each other to advance courageous next system ideas more than ever now. <br />
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The National Next System Project recommitted itself to action with this message yesterday... <a href="http://www.thenextsystem.org/dark-times-call-brighter-new-visions-world-want-see/?mc_cid=bf3c05f13d&mc_eid=0fde3c2e09" target="_blank">Dark times call for brighter new visions of the world we want to see. </a><br />
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"<span style="color: #484646; font-family: , sans-serif;">We hereby pledge to re-dedicate ourselves to the vital work of system change in this country. We look forward to working with the many others who understand that the systemic crisis we now face goes far deeper – and is upon us much sooner – than many had previously understood. Dark times call for brighter new visions of the world we want to see –</span><span style="color: #484646; font-family: , sans-serif;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #484646; font-family: aktiv-grotesk-std, sans-serif;">and will build together</em><span style="color: #484646; font-family: , sans-serif;">." </span><span style="color: #484646; font-family: , sans-serif; text-align: right;">—The Next System Project</span><br />
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What's Next for US?<br />
Our MIT U.Lab coaching circle continues to meet at Lani's on Monday nights from 6:30-8:30. Read Otto Scharmer's Huffington Post article on the blind spot that created Trump's election<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/on-the-making-of-trumpthe-blind-spot-that-created_us_58264d03e4b02b1f5257a1ca" target="_blank"> here</a>.<br />
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On December 15, we will meet at the School of Nursing in the Rahr Conference room at 9-11 am for the final live U.Lab session with our cohort. We're going to grab lunch around 11:30 and then we've been invited to spend the afternoon of December 15 in the <a href="https://www.nursing.umn.edu/outreach/professional-development/planting-seeds-innovation-workshop" target="_blank">Planting Seeds of Innovation </a>workshop. Learn more <a href="https://www.nursing.umn.edu/outreach/professional-development/planting-seeds-innovation-workshop" target="_blank">here</a>. If you are interested in attending our lunch and / or the Planting Seeds of Innovation workshop contact Vicki at vicki@vickioday.com to reserve your place.<br />
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In Solidarity and Courage,<br />
Vicki<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">The MN Next System Project Community has been doing research to discover health innovation needs. For the past five months, we've been asking people on the UMN campus and in our TC community to define health and a healthy community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">On October 27th, we will reconvene to synthesize the data collected in our <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8QeKzTGc6n_NUF4ak8wR2VCcW8/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ABC process,</span></a> at the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Tk-EGJiNzXQkk1YW5Lb1NYTlE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Minnesota State Fair</span></a>, and during the<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8QeKzTGc6n_UVp3N2R4N3NmWnc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">25/10 harvest</span> </a>at the September 19th Teach-in. These healthy community needs assessment findings and the current conditions of our community's health inform us as we co-evolve our next step toward healthy community innovation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Based on our listening and learnings, we’ll </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">create “next system” ideas for “Another World is Possible” pilots.</span></span></div>
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MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-82990859519703000572016-09-26T14:14:00.005-07:002016-09-27T00:44:33.770-07:00Reflections on the September 19, 2016 Next System Project Teach-in<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On<b> </b>Monday, September 19, 2016, nearly 50 people attended a <a href="http://thenextsystem.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Next System Project</span></a> teach-in, <i>Moving Toward the Next System of Healthy Communities</i>. The event took place on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota campus in the Coffman Memorial Union, Whole Music Club. It was the second community and campus teach-in held on the UMN Twin Cities campus this year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The <a href="https://www.nursing.umn.edu/centers/katharine-j-densford-international-center-nursing-leadership"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership</span></a> sponsored the event, advancing the MN Next System Project Community program. The program is an ongoing partnership between the University of Minnesota and the community for crowd sourced research, action learning, and capacity building for leaders of next system innovations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The MN Next System Project Community’s call to action is to </span><b style="color: #9b1427; letter-spacing: 0px;">Connect. Contribute. Create the Next System.</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Teach-in participants were an intergenerational group of concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds including; academics, students, activists, futurists, systems thinkers, government agencies, NGOs, and entrepreneurs connecting to contribute ideas for boldly discovering and creating healthy communities of the future. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A cross-sector panel of whole systems designers were present to inspire and evoke Wisdom from the entire group. Thought provokers included;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"> <a href="http://design.umn.edu/about/news/from_dean_fisher/"><span style="color: #382b00; letter-spacing: 0px;">Thomas Fisher</span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - UMN Metropolitan Design Center Director, Frank Maletz - MD and <a href="http://communitiesofthefuture.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Communities of the Future Leadership</span></a> (COTF), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-nolan-2831b621?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=pigG&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CentityType%3AentityHistoryName%2CclickedEntityId%3Amynetwork_75137283%2Cidx%3A0"><span style="color: #382b00; letter-spacing: 0px;">Timothy Nolan</span></a> - Sustainable Industrial Development, MN PCA,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"> <a href="http://www.nursing.umn.edu/bio/faculty-staff/daniel-pesut"><span style="color: #382b00; letter-spacing: 0px;">Daniel Pesut </span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> - Densford Center Director, UMN School of Nursing, <a href="https://www.nursing.umn.edu/bio/faculty-staff/teddie-potter"><span style="color: #382b00; letter-spacing: 0px;">Teddie Potter</span></a> - Clinical Associate Professor, UMN School of Nursing, and <a href="http://democracycollaborative.org/content/david-zuckerman"><span style="color: #382b00; letter-spacing: 0px;">David Zuckerman</span></a> - Manager for Healthcare Engagement of the <a href="http://democracycollaborative.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Democracy Collaborative</span></a>. The event was coordinated and co-facilitated by <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickioday/">Vicki O'Day</a>, MN Next System Project Community Coordinator</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our findings point to symptoms proven by perpetuating trends of social/economic, environmental, and spiritual divides prevalent in the institutions that preside over the lives we live, here in the Unites States. Minnesotan voices join co-chairs of the national Next System Project, Gar Alperovitz (historian and economist) and Gus Speth (environmentalist and economist) in advancing innovative thinking and practical approaches to introduce just systemic change within our spheres of influence.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Symptoms identified reach beyond health systems into economic, political, educational, and social constructs. These systems are ripe for transformative change. We are in an evolutionary process moving from exclusion to inclusion, from unilateral to multilateral, from the few to the many. There’s a cry among us to find balance, punctuated with peace, connectedness, and commitments to engage generative, resilient systems that sustain life and create greater well-being for people and planet in an emerging 21st Century. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On September 19th, crowd sourcing data collection tools framed our community based learning.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Interactive dialogues were shaped by an online poll and <a href="http://www.liberatingstructures.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Liberating Structures</span></a> 25/10 Crowd Source. Review the top 10 BOLD ideas sourced for generating next systems of healthy communities <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8QeKzTGc6n_UVp3N2R4N3NmWnc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Evidence will be compiled with Densford Center Next System Dialogues held throughout the Summer. In June and July, Donald Gault, led the community through the ABC’s of Communication process to identify <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8QeKzTGc6n_NUF4ak8wR2VCcW8/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">what is health</a>?<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8QeKzTGc6n_Y2ZQckFGYWdRZ3M" target="_blank"> </a>The MN Next System Project Community also conducted a community survey in the UofM Central Building, on August 31st, at the Minnesota State Fair. Watch the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Tk-EGJiNzXQkk1YW5Lb1NYTlE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">MN State Fair video</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>What’s Next? </b>The MN Next System Project Community formed to bring awareness to our need to start talking about and innovating next system alternatives. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We encourage you to </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Connect. Contribute. Create the Next Systems</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #271202; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">D</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">evelop leadership capacities, explore learning tools, contribute resources, open doors, create partnership opportunities that enhance our collective skills and abilities for creating next systems that serve healthy communities of the future.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are a variety of ways for you to stay informed, get involved, and join us…</span></div>
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<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>September 15 - December 15</b> - MIT U.Lab Leading from the Emerging Future. For those interested in a deeper dive into building capacities for leading systems change from the inside out. Thursday mornings in session place based hub (October 6, October 27, and December 15) and Monday evening coaching circles 6:30-8:30. Contact Vicki at <a href="mailto:vicki@vickioday.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">vicki@vickioday.com</span></a> with inquiries.</span></li>
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MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-40733039164921342262016-09-01T11:39:00.003-07:002016-09-03T08:16:33.728-07:00Next System Project Teach-In <div style="color: #9b1427; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;">
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MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-87139772789335645842016-09-01T11:27:00.001-07:002016-09-03T08:17:34.829-07:00 Connect and Contribute to the MIT U.Lab: Transforming Business, Society, and Self series.<div style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The MN Next System Project Community is participating in the u.lab as a <a href="https://www.presencing.com/engage/hubs"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">place based hub</span></a> for action learning and emerging leadership. We connect with MIT to leverage the knowledge, frameworks, methods, and tools around an issue that matters to us and is ripe for change. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lean into the emerging future. Join us on this journey through the u.lab.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #9b1427; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Connect. Contribute.</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="color: #9b1427; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Create the Next System.</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Learn more and register for the U.Lab 1.x course, Leading from the Emerging Future <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/u-lab-leading-emerging-future-mitx-15-671-1x#.V74N5_5nd6k.email"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">here </span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Prerequisite: Awareness-Based Systems Change a 90 minute introduction access <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/awareness-based-systems-change-u-lab-how-mitx-15-671-0x"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">here</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our journey begins on September 8, 2016. This is an eight week commitment. In week six we will create a “next system” prototype. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Register with <a href="https://www.edx.org/course/u-lab-leading-emerging-future-mitx-15-671-1x#.V74N5_5nd6k.email"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">edX</span></a> and contact Vicki @ <a href="mailto:vicki@vickioday.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">vicki@vickioday.com</span></a> for information about the joining the MN Next System Project Community u.lab hub and 1.x cohort.</span><br />
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MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-68290372472626339462016-08-18T12:16:00.002-07:002016-09-02T06:50:47.000-07:00August 31 - Find Us at the Minnesota State Fair!<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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We're headed to the Minnesota State Fair to discover more about the next system of health from our community.</div>
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<a href="https://guidebook.com/guide/73982/event/14249800/" target="_blank">Find</a> The MN Next System Project Community <a href="https://guidebook.com/guide/73982/event/14249800/" target="_blank">exhibit</a> on August 31 from 4:30 - 6:30 at the <a href="https://guidebook.com/guide/73982/poi/5924147/?pcat=331046" target="_blank">U of M Central</a> building.</div>
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;"></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The MN Next System Project Community and the School of Nursing collaborate to ask fair goers to imagine the future by asking, What is health? What does healthy community mean to you? This exhibit pilots data gathering and needs assessment from a wider community sampling. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collections will result in a short video, representing the voice of community to understand “next system” health innovations needed to support and nourish healthy communities of the future. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The video will be shown to the next system thinkers who gather during the September, 19th Next System Project Teach-in, sponsored by the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership, at The Coffman Memorial Union, Whole Music Club from 4:30 - 8pm. Look for details and register <a href="http://mnnextsystemproject.blogspot.com/p/minnesota-next-system-project-teach-in.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-8658663967043123482016-08-13T10:54:00.001-07:002016-08-20T15:02:36.276-07:00Plexus Healthcare Call - How Can We Make Positive Change In Our Communities?<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It has been a long, hot summer marked by disheartening political campaigns, protest marches and senseless killings. It feels like our systems are breaking down. And some are thinking positively about what systems will come next. <a href="http://thenextsystem.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">http://thenextsystem.org</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Vicki O’Day, MA, </b>is a connector, an educator, and a futurist. She is a social entrepreneur who values learning with people how to imagine, design, and create resilient futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. Vicki is a collaborative consultant for change with twenty years experience in financial services, community organizing, and leadership for creating “next system” innovations.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As Minnesota Next System Project Community coordinator, Vicki partners with the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing to bring The Next System Project conversation to the campus and her community. She coordinates Next System Project Teach-ins, the Minnesota Next System Community of Practice, and Next System Dialogs hosted by the Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing and Leadership. This community of practice is creating healthy communities using systems thinking, complexity science, action research and agency</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Vicki is an active volunteer in her community, including leadership roles in Communities of the Future, Northland Sustainable Solutions, and the Future First Women’s Congress. She is a lifetime learner, a mother and grandmother, a lover of nature and life. She is deeply committed to being an advocate for future generations. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>David Zuckerman, MS, BA, </b>joined The Democracy Collaborative team in 2012 and serves as Manager for Healthcare Engagement for the organization’s Anchor Institution Initiative. Zuckerman is the author of <i>Hospitals Building Healthier Communities: Embracing the Anchor Mission </i>and a contributor to <i>Can Hospitals Heal America's Communities: "All in for Mission</i>” <i>is the Emerging Model for Impact.</i> His work focuses on inclusive and equitable economic development strategies that build wealth in low-income communities, with specific attention on how hospitals and health systems can deploy the business side of their institutions to support community health improvement and strengthen their local economies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">We at ReThink Health believe strongly that leaders need to be bold in their thinking and courageous in their actions if they aim to truly <em>transform</em> the health system. At issue is not a scarcity of dollars, but the lack of an innovative vision, aligned around a system-wide strategy.<br /><br />In our study published in this month’s <a href="http://rethinkhealth.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f6e1cb12425746ee26e91c48&id=8232874fe4&e=4c13e43bfa" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">Health Affairs</a>, ReThink Health illustrates that select, combined investments in both population and clinical level initiatives, along with affordable long-term financing strategies, have the potential to dramatically reduce costs, improve health, increase productivity, and expand health equity over the next 25 years.<br /><br />In other words, health transformation is possible.<br /><br />Learn more at <a href="http://www.rethinkhealth.org/the-rethinkers-blog/by-how-much-do-costs-need-to-be-reduced-to-leverage-true-health-transformation/" target="_blank">ReThink Health</a> blog.<br /><br />News article from <a href="http://www.rethinkhealth.org/" target="_blank">ReThink Health</a> reposted August 9, 2016.</span></td></tr>
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MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-29674422721955078392016-07-26T16:47:00.000-07:002016-08-05T09:17:37.988-07:00Hello and Welcome to the MN Next System Project Community!<br />
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Keep in touch by signing up to follow us by email.MN Next System Project Communityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616093822724490103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2818085295717732524.post-73032874061769472402016-07-25T14:34:00.003-07:002016-07-27T16:52:25.400-07:00What's Next? August 3 Densford Center Next System Dilogue<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0A20A-EwNuCTXSRXQoUPp6jpVK59-m8ttMEDeAHrmHrgqEW5w7bCFc3B0pjvhhym2M_MM9uobLWGy_KxzzYT3kvbtRtP9YkOR-3yIF4AAUb0ZVIa9bvhZ3DUwCGt-4VWstTstO2pe4U/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-06-06+at+18.47.44.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0A20A-EwNuCTXSRXQoUPp6jpVK59-m8ttMEDeAHrmHrgqEW5w7bCFc3B0pjvhhym2M_MM9uobLWGy_KxzzYT3kvbtRtP9YkOR-3yIF4AAUb0ZVIa9bvhZ3DUwCGt-4VWstTstO2pe4U/s200/Screen+Shot+2016-06-06+at+18.47.44.png" width="196" /></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">On August 3, we advance our investigation into next systems of health thinking by exploring a community-wide approach developed in Ramsey County for prevention of family violence. Donald Gault, former Healthy Communities Section Manager for Saint Paul-Ramsey County Public Health will lead us through the ABC’s of Communication. This is a continuation of the process we stated in community on June 29th. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The ABC’s of Communication is used for generating a marketing a message in community. Donald calls it Marketing 101. Eighteen of us entered the ABC process with the intent of developing an initial joint vision and action statement to guide the efforts of the Minnesota Next System Project Community.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The MN Next System Project Community directed its focus toward answering two questions intended to help us get clear and concise about what we are here to do together.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Donald Gault led us through the process using several iterations. We worked as a whole group to start then moved into two groups to drill into the ABC process, completing the evening by sharing notes from each group. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">During the first round we turned our focus to applying the ABC Process to the What is Health? question. Two whole group rounds generated a list of words from the community in response to our focus question. From there the list was narrowed to nine key words including:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We then broke into two Action Teams to apply the nine words and others to the ABC formula. At the end of our time, many more creative inspirations continued emerging from us. We felt pressed to wrap up and share team notes with the entire group. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Uninjured<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Give, receive love<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The ability to do, to be</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Breathing<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Intraconnected<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Total Being</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">We believe health is a balance punctuated with happiness, connectedness, peace, joy, and energy that drives actualization, resilience and the ability to flourish/thrive.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Be with each other, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Intention, All voices, Hear stories</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After the Densford Center Next System Dialogue we received notes from several participants who continued to massage the words we collected into the ABC formula. Their submission are included below.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">HEALTH is … the actualization of purpose: to be happy, to</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Verses Bertrand Russell’s depiction of dying - "...all used-up and thrown on the scrap pile of life.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Submitted by Craig Alciati </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I normally sleep pretty soundly, not for very long, but soundly.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyways, I woke up and felt I should work on the ABC thing some more. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Health is at the heart it</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our Health is precious </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Get Busy</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Submitted by Oriana Beaudet</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A few quotes that bubbled up during our evening:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We believe that health is a </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">balance</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> punctuated with </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">happiness, connectedness</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">, peace, joy and energy that drives </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">activation, resilience</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">, and the ability to flourish and thrive.” ~Melissa Horning</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Be with each other” ~ Pam Glenn </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Health is an extension of the </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">interconnected</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> world. Humans are delicately </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">balance</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">d beings with immeasurable </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">resilience</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">. With the ability to thrive through expressions of </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">joy</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">, </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">happiness</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> and </span><span style="background-color: #fffb01; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">actualization</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">, in peace with ourselves, each other and the world around us.” ~ Oriana Beaudet </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“HumanKind – Be Both” ~Glenn Kuschke (note: this is a known bumper sticker)</span></div>
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