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Leading disruption to
improve wellbeing
Marion Blake
CEO, Platform Trust, New Zealand
/PlatformCharitableTrust
@PlatformTrust
Another policy/strategy paper alone will not change the
world or, as Peter Drucker says:
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately
degenerate into hard work.”
New ways of organising
Collaboration, merger
partnership, alliances
Moving from organising
around interest groups to
organising around the
‘emerging whole’.
Shared awareness of
connection/mutual
interest/whole system.
Leading from the Emerging Future: from Ego-system to Ecosystem –
Otto Scharmer Katrin Kaufer
NZ Navigator Building cultural
knowledge understanding the asset
Equally Well Building the network,
using the crowd and using the data
On Track Co-creating a system
A collaboration of people
and organisations taking
action to improve
physical health outcomes
for people who
experience mental
health and
addiction issues
Equally Well
Building the network, using the crowd and using the evidence
The evidence
Tackling the challenge of improving physical health for people who live with
mental health and addiction issues meant engaging the
whole HEALTH system.
Building the network
• Signing the consensus
statement
• Finding and growing the
network
• Who's interested /concerned
/impacted?
• It’s wider than you think…
Hawkes Bay District Health
Board mental health and
addictions services
Southern DHB mental health and
addictions directorate
Wellbeing
Wellington
Level Health
Using the crowd
• Using the crowd for evidence
• Reliable base that keeps growing
• Finding experts in New Zealand
• Academics and researchers love it
when you use their evidence
• Target evidence to interest groups
e.g. Heart Foundation, primary
care
Using, keeping and growing the crowd
Staying connected using social technology
- 250 users
Creating the conversations they want to have
Talking across interests, geography, professions,
hierarchy
Getting feedback
Testing ideas
Sharing cool stuff and woohoo moments
Having a rave
#EquallyWell
The collaborative – the crowd
If people can see their part of the picture, they are happy to be
responsible for that bit.
Having a wide conversation, through multiple lenses, offers more
solutions. Diversity matters!
Good ideas travel fast.
“Many people are spending years living with undetected but
treatable physical health problems needlessly and also some people
are losing their lives because things have been picked up too late”
Equally Well wins
TheMHS award for
innovation and excellence
The TheMHS Awards judging panel said it was impressed by Equally Well because,
despite its minimal budget and relatively short life, it demonstrated that a great
deal of value could be added to the health sector through collaboration around a
common goal.
It said that the number of organisations involved was impressive and the entry
provided excellent examples of organisations creating change.
Find out more about Equally Well on the Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui
website and sign up as a supporter!
http://www.tepou.co.nz/initiatives/equally-well-physical-health/37