change

People want to know: How will needed social change come? By creating good-paying sustainable jobs for everyone? Through universal, affordable, high quality health care? Through education? A greener environment?

Myles Horton, the great educator and social theorist, lived and taught by the phrase, “You cannot achieve what you cannot imagine.”

As we travel throughout the Kaiser Permanente regions we always leave with a question still unanswered: What changes someone’s thinking?

Behind that question are a multitude of others:

Let me begin with a lengthy quote from an article on last week’s report by the U.S. Census Bureau that poverty is at its highest rate in half a century. The facts are alarming and tragic.

We can’t change whole systems without changing the hearts and minds of individuals.

And what would be the point of systemic change if it did not come from the hearts and minds of individuals who contribute to and benefit from that system?

All the innovation we need is already here:  how do we put it to best use?

We’ve all heard the term: “death by initiative.”  What does this mean?

Delegates at the 210 UDC are thinking about the legacy of  change they will leave beind.

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