Innovation missions, powered by behavioural sciences
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In this 6-week online course you’ll learn about Brink’s approach to using behavioural sciences to make missions happen.
You’ll discover how to build coalitions of people around a shared vision for a better future and turn their ideas into reality.
And you’ll leave with an understanding of how to turn your work into an innovation mission.
- Cohort begins November 1, 2024.
Over the last six years, Brink has brought together changemakers to answer the kind of questions that need more than single solutions and any single group of people.
Questions like...
- How do you create resilience against shocks to our climate and ecosystem?
- How can we improve vaccine uptake in under-immunised and vulnerable communities?
- How can access to medical oxygen in low and middle income countries be accelerated?
Brink’s CoLab model is a tried and tested approach for addressing these questions. Each of our CoLabs has brought people together to make productive progress and foster the kind of collaboration that results in real world, long-term impact.
Now, for the first time, we’ve distilled what we've learned into a six-week course, delivered by the Brink team and some of the partners we've worked with along the way.
Over the six weeks you'll be guided through the essential steps needed to set up and run a successful collaboration around a mission. You’ll learn how to use behavioural science to…
- Collectively imagine a tangible ‘better future’ and learn why thinking backwards is a hack for your brain that leads to more creative problem-solving
- Create a sense of belonging quickly and use approaches to get to richer possibilities through collective wisdom
- Develop tangible, testable ideas that you can use to learn what works and what doesn’t - and how to take care of group morale when things don’t go well (which will invariably happen)
- Use incentives, defaults, biases and other behavioural science wisdom to inspire action, maintain engagement and make progress, fast!
Discover more about this course from Brink's co-founder, Abi Freeman:
About Brink
At Brink we believe that to deliver real-world enduring impact, we have to recognise that those doing the work of innovating are (like every human) messy and irrational people. And if we want to deliver the kind of outcomes we seek for people and the planet, then first we have to explore how people think and respond. Only then can we unlock the kind of behaviours that will get us where we need to be.
Over the last six years Brink has developed an approach to do just this; combining elements of the behavioural sciences with innovation methodologies to put the human dimension front and centre. We call this approach Behavioural Innovation.
Behavioural Innovation is now a central part of governments, world-leading donors, foundations and NGOs around the world, where it has transformed the way people work together; created spaces for learning and experimentation, and moved systems forward through cross-sector collaboration, participatory methods and bold goals.
There's more about how we've applied Behavioural Innovation to some real world challenges, on this page.
Who is the course for?
This is for you if your work includes any or all of:
- Frontline innovation: finding solutions that will work and can be delivered sustainably
- Inclusive design: starting from the needs and voices of the most marginalised first, and bringing lived experience into the room
- Organisational change: helping entrenched bureaucracies with designing their services
- Systems thinking: thinking holistically in the long term, going beyond the day-to-day
- Working with people to make change happen: bringing people together across teams, organisations, sectors, countries or all of the above
All you need to join is:
- The curiosity to engage with the topics
- A commitment of min 2.5 hours each week for 6 weeks for the learning sessions, with plenty more to dive into in more detail if you're captivated
- A pinch of impatient optimism that there’s a better way to make more impact, faster, and the belief that you’re a person who can spark and support that kind of change
What you’ll learn
- The power of backcasting: The tools you need for thinking backwards and how to take people on the journey of working backwards from a vision of a radically better future.
- Taking a systems view and designing for mutual wins by exploring lessons from mediation, conflict resolution and biomimicry.
- Enabling crucial conversation by leveraging collective intelligence, experts, those with lived experiences and being jacked into the voices of everyone that matters.
- Making participation generative: How to go from from ‘the wisdom of the crowd’ to testable hypotheses.
- Knowing ‘When to know in order to do’ and ‘When to do in order to know’: How to design experiments, test assumptions and use what you learn in the real world to generate better hypotheses.
- How to foster psychological safety in your collaborators.
Time & place
⏰ Fridays from 0930 GMT until 1230 GMT
🗓️ Starts: Friday 1st November 2024
🗓️ Ends: Friday 6th December 2024
📍 Place: All online, a Zoom link will be provided
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If you are interested in purchasing four or more course spaces, please contact us directly for personalised discounted rates. You can reach us on [email protected]
To ensure inclusivity, we offer discounted pricing for customers from lower or middle-income countries. Please contact us for further information.
Our instructors
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- Abi is one of Brink's two co-founders and an organisational psychologist. She believes in the power of mindsets, collaboration, lifelong learning and what people and (mindfully designed) technology are capable of, together. For over 20 years she has worked in and around tech startups, government, academia and think tanks exploring how ideas make it out into the world and how best to back and coach the people doing the hard work of innovation. She holds a Masters in Organisational Psychology from UCL, a degree in Economics and is a trained coach and service designer.