The Wayfinder Guide

Phase 1 Building a coalition for change

• Module A: Getting people onboard
  1. 1: Assembling the team
  2. 2: Agreeing on principles for good practice
  3. 3: Developing system literacy and reflexive practice
• Module B: Designing the process
  1. 4: Tailoring the process
  2. 5: Deciding on principles for stakeholder participation
  3. 6: Setting up a system for information management and learning
• Module C: Initial system exploration
  1. 7: Mapping available data and information
  2. 8: Articulating assumptions about how to achieve systemic change
• Evaluation, reflection and sense-making

Phase 2 Creating a shared understanding of system identity

• Module A: Understanding aspirations and sustainability challenges
  1. 9: Broad aspirations
  2. 10: System benefits
  3. 11: Social-ecological dilemmas
  4. 12: Historical development of the system
• Module B: System components and organization
  1. 13: Key system components
  2. 14: Connections and networks
  3. 15: Cross-scale interactions
• Module C: Towards a systems model and a change narrative
  1. 16: Building a conceptual model
  2. 17: Developing your initial Change Narrative
• Evaluation, reflection and sense-making

Phase 3 Exploring system dynamics

• Module A: Understanding social-ecological interactions across scales
  1. 18: Developing simple models of key interactions
  2. 19: Identifying thresholds and traps
  3. 20: Cycles of change linked across scales
• Module B: Exploring option space
  1. 21: Developing locally relevant option space indicators
  2. 22: Analyzing trends in option space over time
• Module C: Looking at alternative future trajectories
  1. 23: Horizon scanning
  2. 24: Developing plausible scenarios
• Evaluation, reflection and sense making

Phase 4 Developing innovative strategies for change

• Module A: Preparing the ground for innovative solutions
  1. 25: Establishing an open and innovative mind-set
  2. 26: Articulating a high-level goal for the Wayfinder process
• Module B: Developing specific actions to address dilemmas and option space
  1. 27: Identify actions that target leverage points
  2. 28: Analyzing agency and opportunity context
  3. 29: Filtering your actions: feasibility & effectiveness
  4. 30: Considering unintended consequences, uncertainty, and option space
• Module C: Turning actions into strategies for change
  1. 31: Strategizing
  2. 32: Packaging and communicating the Action Plan
  3. 33: Reflecting on the new change narrative
• Evaluation, reflection and sense making

Phase 5 Learning your way forward

• Module A: Preparing for learning-by-doing implementation
  1. 34: Establishing a learning culture
  2. 35: Assembling a skilled implementation team
• Module B: Developing a framework for learning, monitoring and evaluation
  1. 36: Creating a framework that enables deep learning
  2. 37: Setting up monitoring and evaluation in a deep learning context
• Module C: Designing implementation
  1. 38: Introducing small-scale pilots
  2. 39: Enabling change at broader scales
  3. 40: Formulating an Implementation Plan
• Evaluation, reflection and sense making