"To change systems, you have to focus on A system, not THE system. Because if you try to take on THE system, it's just an amorphous blob that you can't figure out how to pick at. But you can get at individual systems one at a time and that at least is a place to start." - Joy Anderson, President and Founder of Criterion Institute
How much influence would we need to be able to change a system? We have to choose to do it, but in what direction? In this second episode of the Power and Systems series, Vicki Saunders continues the conversation with Criterion Institute’s Joy Anderson about the money and power dynamics within the systems that make up this world. Today, they look at:
- How to inspire people in the moment of personal and community crisis to pay attention to bigger systems.
- The ability to see the inequitable patterns in the market systems.
- How gender analysis plays a crucial role to change systems.
- Why market systems rely on trust and therefore hard to shift.
- Prioritizing where there is leverage to change systems.
- How to pick at different systems vs blowing up the whole system.
- The importance of challenging power in relationships.
