1.9 What will your change be?
Now it is over to you to think about the change that you would most like to make a contribution to. There is so much that needs to change, and also so many ways to get involved. What key challenges that you see around you are you passionate about changing? Why do you care about this issue?
To help you think about your change goal – i.e., what you want to happen – and to define it more clearly, we will undertake a ‘visioning’ exercise.
Unit 2 will then help you to focus in on what role you can play to make this change happen.
Activity 1.5: Visioning your change
Take a moment to imagine that you woke up one morning and what you wanted to see changed had happened. You had helped solve the problem you wanted to address.
You can think as far as you need to into the future (because, as we know, real change takes time):
- What would the changed state be like?
- What tangible changes will you see?
- What will the people who have benefitted from the change be doing, be feeling, be saying?
- What unintended consequences might there be?
- Who might be negatively affected by this change, and so potentially still resist it?
In no more than 50 words, write your change goal in the free text box, in the Make Change Happen Plan or in your own notebook.
1.8 Three views on change
