{"data":{"platform":{"allChallenges":[{"__typename":"Platform_Challenge","_schema":{"label":"Learning Theme","pluralLabel":"Learning Themes"},"id":"68caa3657c8c1c302ac897dd","path":"/learning-themes/community-collectives","slug":"community-collectives","name":"Community Collectives","dataSetId":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"text":"Community collectives are networks of local people, groups, and government working toward shared goals. They use collective action to create systemic change often including a common agenda, shared measures, ongoing communication, and backbone support. Community collectives are place-based. They respond to local strengths, needs, and culture. They centre voices often left out. They shift power from top-down control to shared local leadership.\n\n**Why this matters to the ChangeFest Movement**\nCommunity collectives are how this change happens in place. They turn shared purpose into local action. Across time and contexts, the names may differ. It might be called collective impact, or place-based or community-led work. Regardless of what it is called, the core idea is the same. Communities lead together to shape the future they want.\n\n**How this can be actionable**\nCommunities can create a shared vision and clear goals. They can build strong local partnerships across sectors. They can agree on ways to measure progress. They can host open forums to include diverse voices. They can work in networked, agile ways or in a backbone model to support coordination. By working together, they reduce siloes and share resources. This builds trust, innovation, and stronger advocacy.\n\n**Topics and further learning**\nYou can explore different types of strategies to mobilise community collectives across a range of issues. These strategies often include principles from community engagement, collective impact, systems change and community organising."},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1759215235/cfi/banner/community-collectives_thumbnail__Community_Collectives_Thumb_1184x666_zsclgr.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1759215235/cfi/banner/community-collectives_thumbnail__Community_Collectives_Thumb_1184x666_zsclgr.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1759215235/cfi/banner/community-collectives_thumbnail__Community_Collectives_Thumb_1184x666_zsclgr.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1759215235/cfi/banner/community-collectives_thumbnail__Community_Collectives_Thumb_1184x666_zsclgr.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1759215235/cfi/banner/community-collectives_thumbnail__Community_Collectives_Thumb_1184x666_zsclgr.webp"}}}},"keyIssues":[]},{"__typename":"Platform_Challenge","_schema":{"label":"Learning Theme","pluralLabel":"Learning Themes"},"id":"68caa4157c8c1c302ac897e3","path":"/learning-themes/collaborative-governance","slug":"collaborative-governance","name":"Collaborative Governance","dataSetId":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"text":"**Collaborative governance** is how a group organises itself to achieve a shared purpose. It focuses on clear structures, roles, and decision-making processes. It supports community-led and community-informed decisions. It helps people coordinate across organisations and sectors. Collaborative governance also creates a safe “arena” where the wider ecosystem can take part. It builds clarity about representation, accountability, and who is responsible for what. This helps the collaboration act with trust and direction.\n\n**Why this matters to the ChangeFest Movement**\nCollaborative governance creates the structure that holds the work together. It supports shared accountability while respecting different roles. It helps community voice shape decisions. It also allows partners to coordinate across boundaries. This makes the the work in communities stronger, more transparent, and more credible.\n\n**How this can be actionable**\nGroups can agree on simple and clear decision-making processes. They can define roles and name who is accountable to whom. They can create shared forums where community members help guide priorities. They can design ways to coordinate across sectors, such as joint working groups. They can also review how governance is working and adapt it over time.\n\n**Topics and further learning**\nYou can explore participatory governance and cross-sector collaboration for systems change. Learn about accountability frameworks and power sharing. Study community engagement and representation models. These topics help build strong and fair collaborative governance."},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1759388593/cfi/banner/nation-re-building-1_thumbnail__Nation_Re_building_Thumb_1184x666_k62zpr.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1759388593/cfi/banner/nation-re-building-1_thumbnail__Nation_Re_building_Thumb_1184x666_k62zpr.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1759388593/cfi/banner/nation-re-building-1_thumbnail__Nation_Re_building_Thumb_1184x666_k62zpr.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1759388593/cfi/banner/nation-re-building-1_thumbnail__Nation_Re_building_Thumb_1184x666_k62zpr.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1759388593/cfi/banner/nation-re-building-1_thumbnail__Nation_Re_building_Thumb_1184x666_k62zpr.webp"}}}},"keyIssues":[]},{"__typename":"Platform_Challenge","_schema":{"label":"Learning Theme","pluralLabel":"Learning Themes"},"id":"68caa4e87c8c1c302ac897e8","path":"/learning-themes/systemic-learning","slug":"systemic-learning","name":"Systemic Learning","dataSetId":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"text":"**Systemic learning** is how collaborations learn together to achieve a shared purpose. It goes beyond data collection. It values many forms of knowledge, including research, practice, community insight, and First Nations knowledge. It creates the conditions for shared reflection and sense-making across differences. Systemic learning also builds regular rhythms to test assumptions, track progress, and adapt. It helps groups understand the wider system, not just single projects.\n\n**Why this matters to the ChangeFest Movement**\nIn complex work, no one has the full answer. Systemic learning helps the movement stay curious and responsive. It challenges narrow ideas of what counts as “real” evidence. It centres voices often excluded from decision-making. By learning together, the movement can adapt strategy, strengthen impact, and build a shared narrative for change.\n\n**How this can be actionable**\nGroups can create regular learning forums for reflection and dialogue. They can invite diverse stakeholders to share insights and lived experience. They can agree on learning questions and test their assumptions. They can track progress using both stories and data. They can document lessons and share them across the network. This supports ongoing adaptation and stronger collective action.\n\n**Topics and further learning**\nYou can explore developmental evaluation, action research, and systems thinking. Learn about participatory evaluation, reflective practice and First Nations ways of knowing. Study sense-making, adaptive learning cycles, and knowledge translation. These topics strengthen systemic learning in practice."},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1759215382/cfi/banner/community-resources_thumbnail__Community_Resources_Thumb_1184x666_ynz27i.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1759215382/cfi/banner/community-resources_thumbnail__Community_Resources_Thumb_1184x666_ynz27i.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1759215382/cfi/banner/community-resources_thumbnail__Community_Resources_Thumb_1184x666_ynz27i.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1759215382/cfi/banner/community-resources_thumbnail__Community_Resources_Thumb_1184x666_ynz27i.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1759215382/cfi/banner/community-resources_thumbnail__Community_Resources_Thumb_1184x666_ynz27i.webp"}}}},"keyIssues":[]},{"__typename":"Platform_Challenge","_schema":{"label":"Learning Theme","pluralLabel":"Learning Themes"},"id":"68caa5b37c8c1c302ac897ed","path":"/learning-themes/community-led-strategy","slug":"community-led-strategy","name":"Community led strategy","dataSetId":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"text":"A **community-led strategy** shifts power to the people most affected by an issue. It supports the development of shared goals, and the development and implementation of plans to achieve those goals. The strategy will identify and use community strengths and supports the community to work together to build capacity of their community to thrive.  In this model, the community holds power and makes key decisions.\n\n**Why this matters to the ChangeFest movement**\nThis theme is vital to ChangeFest because real systems change starts locally.  ChangeFest centres First Nations voices in local and national decisions . By letting communities lead, efforts become more trusted and fair.  It helps move away from top-down responses toward collective agency. \n\n**How can this be actionable**\nTo take action, you can bring local leaders and community members together to map community assets and determine shared goals.  back local leaders.    Developing a collaborative governance structure with local leaders at the centre, sharing data and co-design of services are all steps that can be taken.  \n\n**Topics and further learning**\nYou can learn more by exploring power-shifting and First Nations leadership  Other useful topics include Asset-Based Community Development and trauma-informed practice . Understanding leverage points in systems is also key to making lasting change "},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1759215443/cfi/banner/tools-capabilities_thumbnail__Tools_Capabilities_Thumb_1184x666_xsckl7.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1759215443/cfi/banner/tools-capabilities_thumbnail__Tools_Capabilities_Thumb_1184x666_xsckl7.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1759215443/cfi/banner/tools-capabilities_thumbnail__Tools_Capabilities_Thumb_1184x666_xsckl7.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1759215443/cfi/banner/tools-capabilities_thumbnail__Tools_Capabilities_Thumb_1184x666_xsckl7.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1759215443/cfi/banner/tools-capabilities_thumbnail__Tools_Capabilities_Thumb_1184x666_xsckl7.webp"}}}},"keyIssues":[]},{"__typename":"Platform_Challenge","_schema":{"label":"Learning Theme","pluralLabel":"Learning Themes"},"id":"68caa6e17c8c1c302ac897f2","path":"/learning-themes/collective-leadership","slug":"collective-leadership","name":"Collective Leadership","dataSetId":null,"openGraph":{"description":{"text":"Collective leadership is the practice of people working together toward a shared purpose. It builds shared responsibility and joint decision-making. People take on clear roles, but power and agency are shared. The group creates the conditions for each person to contribute fully. It also seeks views from across the system, especially from those most affected. Collective leadership is intentional. It asks people to reflect on their role in the system and to stay open to learning and change.\n\n**Why this matters to the ChangeFest Movement**\nNo single person or group can shift a system alone. Collective leadership is critical for helping communities act unity and strength. It builds trust across sectors and communities. It helps people work with power, not ignore it. By sharing purpose and influence, members can authorise each other’s work. This builds credibility and impact. It also helps the communities stay adaptive in complex and changing contexts.\n\n**How this can be actionable**\nCommunities or groups can co-create a clear shared purpose and define roles. They can invite voices from across the system into planning and review. They can name and discuss power openly. They can build space to reflect on tensions, old patterns, and new needs. They can practice perspective shifting and adapt their behaviour. Regular check-ins on “how we are working” can strengthen trust and collaboration.\n\n**Topics and further learning**\nYou can explore systems thinking, power mapping, and adaptive leadership.  Reflect on self–role–system awareness. These topics build the mindset and skills for strong collective leadership."},"image":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/v1759215498/cfi/banner/movement-building_thumbnail__Movement_Building_Thumb_1184x666_uusctu.webp","url2x":null,"thumbnails":{"card":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_480/v1759215498/cfi/banner/movement-building_thumbnail__Movement_Building_Thumb_1184x666_uusctu.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_960/v1759215498/cfi/banner/movement-building_thumbnail__Movement_Building_Thumb_1184x666_uusctu.webp"},"bubble":{"url":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_64/v1759215498/cfi/banner/movement-building_thumbnail__Movement_Building_Thumb_1184x666_uusctu.webp","url2x":"https://res.cloudinary.com/shapeable/image/upload/c_limit,w_128/v1759215498/cfi/banner/movement-building_thumbnail__Movement_Building_Thumb_1184x666_uusctu.webp"}}}},"keyIssues":[]}]}}}