Multisolving: Book Discussion

One Million Neighbours Waterloo Region

In this event, Dr. Elizabeth Sawin will discuss what multisolving is and how people around the world are achieving results by multisolving.

Balsillie School of International Affairs

Join fellow leaders from grassroots, non-profit, and governmental organizations to learn from one another and discuss the “multisolving” approach to addressing complex problems.Presented by One Million Neighbours WR, the WR Food Systems Roundtable, Social Development Centre WR, and Festival of Neighbourhoods, this event is an interactive discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, author of “Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World”.The first 15 registrants will receive a complimentary copy of the book. About Dr. Sawin and MultisolvingFor most of Elizabeth Sawin’s career, she was not a multisolver. Instead, she worked on a single, albeit immensely important problem: climate change. Despite tremendous effort—long hours of teaching, attending conferences, publicizing analysis—at the end of the day, she felt like she was chasing her tail. Unless people began to recognize the multitude of unexpected benefits from ratcheting down emissions, climate change would remain a losing political issue.That experience, along with the guidance of leaders in systems thinking and racial justice, convinced her that the world’s thorniest problems may be easier to tackle together than one by one.That’s multisolving: using a single investment of time or money to solve many problems at the same time. (Reduced fossil fuel use = improvements in climate, health, equity, economics, and more.) While the idea of killing two birds with one stone (or “filling two needs with one deed”) is age-old, and the notion of co-benefits in policy-making has been around for years, Multisolving addresses the current mismatch between complex, deeply intertwined societal issues and our siloed approach to them.In this event,<a href="https://islandpress.org/author/elizabeth-sawin" title="https://islandpress.org/author/elizabeth-sawin" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Dr. Elizabeth Sawin</a> will discuss what multisolving is and how people around the world are achieving results by multisolving. The event will be informal and interactive, with time to reflect on multisolving within our own community and what we are collectively learning in the process of multisolving. Finally, we will look ahead to the questions and opportunities that emerge as the practice of multisolving becomes more common, more powerful, and more needed than ever before. TransportationThe venue is located on the GRT #5 bus route and near the Uptown Waterloo and Willis Way ION stops, as well as the Iron Horse Trail.As a reminder, parking is available in the Erb Lot across the street from the School (marked “E” on the map: https://uptownwaterloobia.com/uptown-parking/). This lot is free for the first two hours, then you may purchase additional time using the Honk Mobile app. The CIGI lot is reserved for employees of the campus buildings. DonationThis is s free event. If you would like to support an organization doing great work to support unhoused neighbours and low-income residents in Waterloo Region, please consider donating to Waterloo Region Community Legal Services: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/waterloo-region-community-legal-services/impact/view/

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