Living Guide to Social Innovation Labs
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  • Introduction
  • Seeing
    • Understanding Complex Problems
      • Challenge Statements
      • Systems Thinking
      • Systems Mapping
      • Leverage Points
      • Wicked Questions
    • Design Research
      • Design Thinking
      • Ethnography
      • Interviews
      • Journey Mapping
      • Service Blueprint
      • Sensemaking
      • Dashboards
    • Systemic Design
    • Identifying and Engaging Key People
      • Stakeholders
      • Stakeholder Mapping
  • Doing
    • Co-Creation
      • Convening
        • Is Convening the Right Tool?
        • Types of Convening
      • Facilitation
      • Collective Impact
      • Ideation
    • Prototyping
      • Prototyping in a Lab Context
      • Testing
      • Types and Modalities
      • Prototyping Approaches
    • Scaling
      • Growth Thresholds
      • Scaling Up, Out, Deep
      • Tactics for Scaling
      • Scaling Strategy
    • Monitoring, Measuring and Communicating Impact
      • Types of Evaluation
      • Logic Models
      • Measures and Metrics
      • Standards of Evidence
      • Evaluating Complexity
      • Communicating Impact
  • Being
    • Innovation Labs and Process
      • Agile Project Management
      • Value Proposition
      • Theory for Change
      • Business Models
    • Resourcing and Team
      • Lab Partners
      • Team Expertise and Skills
      • Wellbeing of Remote Teams
      • Funding
    • Inclusion and Equity Practice
      • Power Structures
      • Innovation for Real Transformation
      • Truth and Reconciliation
      • Recommendations for Inclusive Practice
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  1. Being
  2. Inclusion and Equity Practice

Truth and Reconciliation

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Many of us are uninvited settlers currently occupying the unceded territories of Indigenous peoples. It is important to recognize the historical and ongoing colonization against Indigenous peoples that make it possible for us to be here as settlers. As settlers doing equity work, we have a responsibility to unpack the ways colonization exists in our communities and systems.

To start to understand how to commit to this work, here are resources that you can go over with your lab team, staff and board of directors:

94 Calls to Action, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2015:

Decolonizing Pledge, BC Food Systems Network, 2016:

The 4R’S Youth Movement has many other resources and tools compiled by youth for further reading:

Kairos Blanket Exercise is a participatory history lesson developed in collaboration with Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers and educators for truth, understanding, respect and reconciliation among Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Also, see the article below on the relationship between colonization and social innovation.

Currently, work is being done by and the (WISIR), supported by the McConnell Foundation to decolonize the . See this video for more:

The Turtle Institute
Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience
Social Innovation Lab Guide
Gikendaasowin Storytelling
LogoTRC WebsiteNCTR
LogoWelcome4Rs
LogoHomeKairos Blanket Exercise
LogoDecolonial Innovation: Reclaiming the History of Social InnovationMedium