Daniela Papi

Thinking about systems change and social impact education, Cambodia, and motherhood.

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

Well, it's been a few years since I have posted here... I want to introduce Systems. Change. Educators. Unite. a community for those working in systems understanding, change/innovation, or any educators interested in either or both areas to UNITE https://t.co/9EaZZrv3nR

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

Congratulations to the @UCT_news & @BerthaCentre team for winning this year's Map the System competition. High-fives to everyone who participated and learned along the way! @mapthesystem

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@listenlearn_act @YouTube Thank you, Peter! Happy belated Canadian Thanksgiving.

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@sunil_suri I got it partially wrong I think. The most important part is the next question which is "And how is YOUR work going to further THEIR impact." I think systems-led leaders design their work to improve the outcomes of OTHER nodes in the system. Thanks for reaching out!

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@marcventresca @SkollCentre @SkollFoundation @MaryaBesharov @Bagputys @OxfordSBS Thank you for this! Just FYI - Pamela I believe coined Heropreneurship, but it was @jessamynlau from the Peery Foundation and her colleague who coined "Apprenticing with a Problem"

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@GregoryMarksNY Thanks for checking in @GregoryMarksNY. Ugh - it's more than just our gun laws that are broken. Our biases, bullying, turning a blind eye to hate are a part of it. Oh so much is broken. But indeed, allowing civilian assault weapons is the icing on the insanity.

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@Steph_Cutler @miss_magpie_spy @TheAperturepod @TongueFuShow Thank you @Steph_Cutler ! I have been off social media for a month - and I loved coming back to hear this @TheAperturepod podcast.

WOW! Chris Redmond of @TongueFuShow - You are SO TALENTED! That poem is AMAZING! Just - WOW! Thank you! I love it!

[The Aperture @TheAperturepod]

Episode 4 is out. Thanks to @danielapapi & @TongueFuShow for your gift of being our guests. Thanks for all you do within your work to create #SocialChange. This episode is a goodie!
#ThankYouSocialLeader
YouTube: https://t.co/FcgsUnCJWo
The Anchor: https://t.co/bVtxnWli5T

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@PavlinaProteouS Thanks, Pavlina. Glad to hear it is useful.

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh Thanks, Saurabh!

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli I lied. One last thing: some colleagues & I wrote this piece on systems change education & what is missing to shift the "solution-focused" accelerator type education model towards systems change education in case useful https://t.co/XOzGFpSMVj (need to explicitly teach systems)

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli journalism-where they fill an impact gap by sharing knowledge where it's missing or entrepreneurial academic (not necessarily an oxymoron) intentionally filling a research gap to improve outcomes of practitioners. Sorry for long series of replies! Hopefully a bit of use in there!

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli "success" becomes participants finding a path to impact - if that is a next job or internship with an org they think is doing great work in the sector, changing/contributing from within existing efforts, or launching something new which need not be a "venture" - could be activist

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli WAY more students joined in. The ones who knew they didn't want to be "a founder", the ones who knew the problems were really complex and didn't want to pitch an idea without first learning more, the ones who just wanted to learn more about systems or a certain issue. In that way

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli We started @mapthesystem the create a competition which countered the typical business plan comp where you had to pitch "your solution" and instead invited participants to pitch "their understanding of the problem, landscape of current solution, and the impact gaps" & as a result

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli systems-led leadership skills (understanding a system, analyzing what has already beed tried, considering power dynamics, personal reflection, & taking action designed to contribute to impact of OTHER nodes in the system - thereby shifting the systems results even after finished)

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli the key skills which are missing: understanding complexity/systems, an understanding that no one intervention will "solve" a complex problem, "contributing" vs "winning" mindsets, the value of lived experience (like Baljeet's work talks about https://t.co/TDvDLJFISN), and...

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli And the really smart students who also understood complexity being left out of the picture, because they couldn't pitch a 5 min "how my idea who 'win' over your idea and scale to solve the problem" type pitch as they realized it was more complicated than that. We need to teach...

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli I understand jumping into "solving" (that is my tendency by nature) but having taught social entrepreneurship for a number of years I saw so many examples of poor ideas being funded, foreigners being overfunded while local ideas were overlooked simply because of PPT skills/lang..

[Daniela Papi @danielapapi]

@LallSaurabh @SamerAbdelnour @nalanpog @jcmarqz @HarveyKoh @ndidiNwuneli That is why I had written this report and SSIR piece on "Tackling Heropreneurship" https://t.co/C0zVVhYOtE years ago and then helped launch a global challenge (now called Map the System) at Oxford designed to incentivize problem understanding https://t.co/u1D6Xjzrw3 @mapthesystem