Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World by Elizabeth Sawin | An Island Press book

#OpenDialogue 10 Dec. Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World

Tuesday, 10 December 2024 - 8:30am

An interactive workshop session and dialogue with Beth Sawin, Multisolving Institute

In times of profound disruption and discontinuity, finding ways to work together across traditional boundaries becomes essential for building resilient futures and navigating current crises. Join us for an interactive dialogue and workshopping session with Dr. Beth Sawin whose groundbreaking book Multisolving invites us to address interconnected challenges through radical collaboration and systemic solutions.
 

What is Multisolving?

Multisolving identifies and implements solutions that address multiple challenges at once – from climate change to health, equity, and biodiversity. This approach recognizes that our greatest challenges are interconnected and require breaking down silos both across and within organizations.

As we face interlinked crises from climate change to social inequity, the need for transformative solutions has never been greater. Multisolving offers a way to work together to address multiple challenges today while also building resilience for the future

Drawing on decades of research and real-world examples, Beth will reflect on how nurturing trusting relationships across silos can promote the emergence of solutions that serve multiple needs and constituencies at once. Beth will provide practical tools for multisolving and showcase the attitudes and approaches that help multisolving flourish and build adaptative capacity for navigating shocks, disruptions and unexpected opportunities.

For anyone working at the intersection of climate, health, equity, and social justice – or seeking hopeful pathways through our current crises – this session offers both inspiration and practical guidance for creating positive change.
 

Format

This will be a highly interactive session designed to share practical tools and approaches that you can apply in your own work. Featuring case discussions, small group work, and opportunities to connect with others working to bridge divides for greater impact, it will aim to explore and share, collectively, how multisolving appraoches are used in different regions and contexts to deal with the interconnected and intersecting challenges of our time.