During the conference over 40 discussion groups were convened in Open Space. These links will take you to the results of those discussions.
Concrete Tools
- Turning project outcomes into reality and identifying next steps
- An audit and compendium of evaluation tools in current practice
- Storytelling as a form of evaluating change behaviour
- What are your tried and true facilitation methods for creating conversation and change?
- Evaluation Toolbox: Let’s talk about it.
- Behaviour change programs, examples of stuff that works and how to build on and learn projects/programs
- Where are the most highly regarded tools & methodologies for change evaluation?
- Can we transfer BC methods between disciplines?
Practice issues in evaluations
- How to reconcile competing values with a shared future
- Building a culture of evaluation
- Our mindset and worldview as we evaluate behaviour change
- Assessing independent contributions of population-based programs and interventions
- Who actually cares about evaluation? Who is it for? Why do they care?
- When not to evaluate.
- Pretending
- How do we get “buy-in” from those that don’t care or are time poor?
- Liminal Space – How to bring it about AND How to evaluate what happens in it?
- How to change behaviour in our “over it” topic?
- Ripple effect & nonlinear snowball + How to tip the tipping point faster
- Prole – sense – respond in practice AKA “The Risk of Success”
- Connecting Diverse Fields to the Practice of Evaluating Behaviour Change
- Where are they now? Evaluating impacts of training programs over time
- How can we move evaluation from a process of measurement to a process of learning?
The wider world of our work
- The role of museums in the climate change debate.
- Can we and how do we engage with and work for disengaged, disadvantaged, and lower socio-economic groups?
- Using the wisdom of indigenous cultures newly arrived communities to inspire BC in mainstream Australia. Who is teaching who?
- Voices from outside “the centre” – hearing the stories of regional and rural change
- Our connection with nature – nature as teacher in behaviour change and evaluation
- First Follower is an underrated form of leadership (the wave theory)