Collective Community Action - Free Workshop

Collective Impact is about uniting an entire community with a single set of goals - mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support.

Large-scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organisations. Many of our most serious and complex social problems can be solved if communities come together around a common agenda to create a collective impact - instead of focusing on independent action as the primary vehicle for social change.

Jazz Grewal (Kaiwhakahaere Kaitohu/Programme Director – Collective Action with Communities) from Collaborative Aotearoa will lead the first part of the session to help build an understanding of the adapted Collective Action with Communities approach. This will focus on partnering with whānau and communities and exploring the mindset shifts needed to make real impactful change. A critical part of Collective Action is elevating the voice and aspirations of whānau and communities through effective community engagement.

In the second part of the session, Alex will provide her own knowledge and experiences of creating enduring impact for whānau and communities through Community Organising. Community organising offers an approach to effective community-led engagement and change in which the people most negatively affected by health and social outcomes are critical partners in determining and achieving ‘what matters to them. For Collective Action efforts, organising offers an equity-led approach to capture community aspirations, issues and solutions while also building community capacity through leadership development, hence creating conditions for sustainable change.