Image From Panarchy: a scale-linking perspective of systemic transformation
- The Art of Advocacy Strategy
- Ken Burn’s Jazz Series
- Systems and Constraints: The Concept of Leverage
- On the Relatedness and Nestedness of Constraints
- EXPLORING POSSIBILITY SPACES
Unlike tactical heuristics, Strategic Heuristics aren’t procedures or techniques in the usual sense of that word. Strategic Heuristics are ways of thinking about the context that frames your advocacy initiative. Like tactical heuristics, Strategic Heuristics require practice, but more in the form of reflection, dialogue, debriefing, and similar approaches that try to learn meta-lessons from the planning and results of advocacy action.
The heuristics I’ll explore here include:
- Creating Advocacy Possibility Spaces.
- How apparent Constraints create points of Leverage.
- How the Mindset of Flows produces better advocacy strategies than the Mindset of Things.
- Using Disability Rights as a Strategic Heuristic.
- The Recovery Model as a Framework for Community Change
- Scaffolding
- Symbiogenesis
There are many other strategic heuristics that you will discover through active advocacy action, reflection, dialogue, and so on.
The image in this slide depicts the nested nature of the Adaptive Cycle and the Aging of every CAS. It is worth reading although it is very abstract. Every advocacy effort that we undertake is embedded in systems above and includes systems within. Because of this, we do not make mechanical plans for measurable outcomes but develop and evolve a strategy that teaches us how to move on.
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