Change Lab - Metropolitan Planning Council

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Change Lab

Change Lab equips advocates, the public sector, and private entities with the knowledge, skills and tools to affect structural change and institutionalize equity.

  • How can we better understand our roles in systems and do our work differently so that our systems function differently?
  • How can we share decision-making power and co-create solutions with stakeholders?
  • How can we re-design systems to be equitable using creative approaches?

  • Understanding our role in systems: Increasing awareness of how you are part of the systems that you are trying to organize to change and how to shift your role
  • Collaboration: Building relationships and sharing decision-making power to co-create solutions
  • Experimentation: Trying out creative approaches to disrupt systemic issues

A convening with facilitated discussions
and hands-on tools for partners.
     A space for partners to learn from and
     collaborate with each other.
A program for partners to learn, collaborate, and try new ideas through coaching, facilitation, and train-the-trainer support. 

Contact


Collaborators

This initiative is supported by The Chicago Community Trust.

Metropolitan Planning Council 140 S. Dearborn St.
Suite 1400
Chicago, Ill. 60603
312 922 5616 info@metroplanning.org

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