Impact breakfasts — Beacon Strategies

Past breakfast: Friday, 22nd March

Navigating Social Impact and Sustainability: Co-design Strategies for Empowering Communities and Driving Change

With Eleni Kalantidou

Join us and Eleni Kalantidou in our upcoming co-design impact breakfast this March!

What you'll learn:

- Bringing together existing community capacity: co-designing with communities to address social exclusion, unemployment, unsustainability, and limited opportunities for the future.

- Non-linear processes of working with lived experience: discussing how different phases of a programme/initiative/process require varied strategies to engage with communities and participants.

- The impact of embedding new learnings in different programme/initiative/process iterations: exploring the challenge of capturing the organic co-design that occurs during and after the implementation of a new phase.

- Turning social value into sustainability: sharing personal experiences from programmes/services/designs with high social value that have endured, thrived, and ceased.

About the speakers

Dr Eleni Kalantidou

Dr Eleni Kalantidou is a design psychologist, strategist, researcher and educator. Her research activities are focused on sustainable and social design, design strategy, social impact and social innovation. Dr Kalantidou's research projects investigate alternative models of behavioural change and community transitions within conditions of climate change.

Her research work on repair, circular economy practices, community resilience and adaptation, has been published in journals and books and supported by grants and consultancies.

In terms of Dr. Kalantidou's practical work, she has collaborated as a researcher and consultant with a number of international, national and local NGOs, Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council. She recently co-edited and co-authored the book Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46862-9

This session is suitable for everyone and is a part of a series of co-design related presentations.

What are impact breakfasts?

Impact breakfasts are a vision for a more impactful social purpose sector by learning together to create more effective programs and services in Brisbane.

We define social purpose sectors as any organisation that aims or has the aim to create a better world.

The idea is that if we collaborate by combining our knowledge and support with one another, we can see improvements in the social purpose sectors in Brisbane.

Time for networking

30 min presentations

Breakfast always provided

FAQ

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Due to the highly collaborative and network-building nature of the events, presentations will not be recorded.
The aim is to collaborate and talk about what we learn during the presentation. It is meant to spark conversation and unlock difficulties we might be experiencing ourselves in our line of work.
Yes! Because 'social purpose' sectors are so broad, impact breakfasts are suited to a wide range of people. Regardless of what sector you are working in you will likely learn something new, or meet someone interesting.
No, all impact presentations will be free! So, bring a friend or a colleague.
You will have 30 minutes to mingle, grab some food and drink before the presentation . The presentation then runs for 30 minutes. After each presentation, you will have 30 minutes to talk to the presenter, discuss the presentation, meet with other attendees, or just leave! It is entirely up to you how you use your time.
The space is for you to learn and grow and help others, in a way that suits you.
This is not a Beacon Strategies event per se. While Beacon will act as host to the events, we want impact breakfasts to become its own entity and develop with the help of the community that forms from it.
The continuity and community aspect of impact breakfasts is what makes it stand out.
As far as we know (we’re pretty sure at least), there isn’t a place for sector professionals to regularly meet up and experience casual learning opportunities, while also getting to meet new people or catch up with others.
After a lot of feedback over the years about commutes and family commitments, we decided to host these as a breakfast event so that they were open to everyone before the work day.

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