Summary
Spheres of Systems Change is a model from NPC (New Philanthropy Capital), part of its Systems Practice Toolkit, for tracing how a change travels through a system. It sets out eight spheres “in which change needs to happen for that change to become systemic”: internal, behavioural, relational and organisational at the micro level; collective and infrastructural at the meso; political and cultural at the macro. The levels are adapted from Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of child development.
The model starts with the person initiating change and treats influence as running both ways. NPC’s worked example is a coalition’s policy campaign that stalls because one leader can’t trust his partners.
Rationale
Kin to the micro, meso and macro models Part 2 synthesised into circles of ‘Self’, ‘Community’ and ‘Society’. NPC’s call to “turn the mirror on ourselves” echoes Part 1: “turn the inquiry back on ourselves”.
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