Whether the challenge you face came on suddenly or accumulated around you, there is a basic human toolkit that helps create a way forward. Whether you have many resources or few, ou can find strategies for innovation to find solutions to the world's most difficult problems. Paul Komarek's presention is motivational, positive, and forward-thinking, suitable for church groups, prisoner re-entry, mental health and addiction recovery, as well as job hunters or anyone who is stuck, with a path that's not clear.

1. Personal Recovery
and Social Innovation
in New Dust Bowl Times
Paul Komarek
www.paulkomarek.us
Twitter @pkomarek

2. What has happened?

3. Where is the path?

4. Someone could
walk into this
room and say
your life is on
fire, it’s all over
the evening
news.
Paul Simon

5. Not where things should be

6. Good
and Bad

7. There is a road through the storm

8. Basic Human Toolkit

9. Planning

10. Learn about what you’re facing

11. Find allies to support you

12. Find resources to work with

13. Plan short-term and long-term

14. Follow your plan

16. Four Questions for Recovery
What helps you make the most of
your talents?
How can you reduce the areas
where you are vulnerable?
How can you improve your ability
to cope with stress?
How can you deal with the risk of
something going wrong?

17. www.viame.org

18. Find your element
Where the
things
you're
good at
and the
things you
love to do
come
together.

19. Innovate

20. IDEO Human Centered Design

21. Radical Efficiency
1. Make true partnership with users the best
choice for everyone.
2. Enable committed, passionate and open-
minded leaders to emerge from anywhere.
3. Start with people’s quality of life not the
quality of your service.
4. Work with the grain and in the spirit of
families, friends and neighbors.
5. Manage risks, don’t just avoid them.

22. The answer is not within the existing system.
The existing system is the problem.
-- Doug Hall

23. System Leverage Points
12 Numbers. Constants and
parameters such as
subsidies, taxes, and standards
11 Buffers. The sizes of stabilizing
stocks relative to their flows
10 Stock-and-Flow Structures.
Physical systems and their nodes of
intersection
9 Delays. The lengths of time
relative to the rates of system
changes

24. System Leverage Points
8 Balancing Feedback Loops. The
strength of the feedbacks relative
to the impacts they are trying to
correct
7 Reinforcing Feedback Loops.
The strength of the gain of driving
loops
6 Information Flows. The
structure of who does and does
not have access to information
5 Rules.
Incentives, punishments, constrain
ts

25. System Leverage Points
4 Self-Organization. The
power to add, change, or
evolve system structure
3 Goals. The purpose or
function of the system
2 Paradigms. The mindset
out of which the system—its
goals, structure, rules, delays,
parameters—arises.
1 Transcending Paradigms

26. Spread Success
De-professionalize it.
Make it simple.
Make it free or cheap.
Make it social.
Send it everywhere.

27. Hip hop is based on a
single, brilliant insight: while
musical instruments and musical
training are expensive and hard to
get, recorded music is ubiquitous.
So a group of mostly-
young, mostly-black, and mostly-
New York-based musicians started
using music to make music.

28. www.churchbasement.net

29. www.settlementguild.net

30. Where to start?
www.paulkomarek.us
@pkomarek
komarek@humanintervention.net

31. Where to start?
www.paulkomarek.us
@pkomarek
komarek@humanintervention.net
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