8.7 Looking to the future
Your plan to make change happen is hopefully coming together now. Remember that the best plans are those that you come back to, that you share and discuss with others, that you scribble on, tear parts up, re-write if necessary. It’s that ongoing questioning that will help ensure your plans to make change happen remain relevant.
Let us take some time now to look at how you can take your next steps on your journey as a changemaker. What do you commit to?
Activity 8.4: Looking to the future
Spend some time thinking about the questions posed below. Think back over the many activities you have undertaken during this course and draw on your learning and responses.
For instance, think about: your own relationship to power within, power with, power to and power over as a changemaker; think about your strengths and where you need to develop your capacity for change; how you can work collectively with others and with your community; how confident you are in various aspects of being a changemaker; what are your knowledge gaps; how you will build your confidence to plan and deliver change actions and activities; how you will keep learning as you are doing; how you can be agile and responsive to the changes that are happening around you and opportunities and challenges that will arise.
Here is a simple table for you to plan your next steps. Write your ideas in the free text box, in your Make Change Happen Plan or in your notebook
| What I will do next | When I will do it | How I will do it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| To develop and strengthen my individual capacity and skills to influence for change | |||
| To develop and strengthen my approach to working with other people in making change happen | |||
| To strengthen my knowledge and understanding of making change happen | |||
| On my change action |
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8.6 Pulling it all together to make change happen
