Webinar – FLOWER Immersive
This webinar introduces the FLOWER tool adapted in an online version with a focus on equity as a pillar of Multisolving. Viewers will learn: What the FLOWER tool is How to apply FLOWER as a bridge tool between creative ideas and real projects or investments that can solve multiple issues in communities About research at […]
Webinar – The Multisolving Way
This webinar introduces multisolving and the Multisolving Way. People will learn: what multisolving is hear some examples of multisolving see interactions with others whose work involves crossing silos and learn about research at Multisolving Institute on the practices that we see used by effective multisolvers. All are welcome to view and we especially encourage people […]
Webinar – FLOWER: Visualizing Solutions for Equity, Climate, and Health
This interactive webinar introduces FLOWER, which stands for Framework for Long-term, Whole-system, Equity-based Reflection. In the webinar recording Join us to network alongside people with similar interests, learn about FLOWER and the ways it can support your work, and gain insights about the potential multisolving holds to create systems change. We especially encourage people working across multiple silos in communities, […]
Healey-Driscoll Administration Launches Climate Science Advisory Panel; Dr. Sawin named as panelist
Massachusetts Governor Healey and Lieutenant Governor Driscoll launched a Climate Science Advisory Panel through the new Massachusetts Office of Climate Science (OCS). Multisolving Institute Director and Founder Dr. Elizabeth Sawin has been named to serve as a panelist. “The creation of the Climate Science Advisory Panel will be a tremendous resource as we integrate climate […]
Multisolving: Making Systems Whole, Healthy, and Sustainable
Imagine the future we could build if we could effectively work across borders between nations, issue areas, jurisdictions, and departments. We could be much better prepared for the future, especially when it comes to climate change and equity. Multisolving solutions come from achieving meaningful results across sectors. From Malaysia to Canada, we can see that […]
Multisolving for Resilience: RITA Summit Recap
On August, 7th Multisolving Institute Director Beth Sawin joined a panel on Community, Reciprocity, and Sustainability at the Loka Initiative’s Resilience in the Anthropocene [RITA] Summit. She spoke about four principles that can build resilience to environmental shocks in communities. We share her remarks below: I have four principles for building community resilience I’d like to offer […]
Multisolving: How Do You Know It When You See It?
Multisolvers work at all scales and across many sectors. Yet they have four practices in common. Our research team – Susanne “Susi” Moser Research & Consulting and Tina Smith of Anderson Smith Consulting – have been interviewing multisolving leaders across North America. But before they could begin their research, they needed to know how to […]
Disaster Recovery Efforts Can Serve More than One Goal
This opinion piece from Dr. Sawin stems from the devastating July 2023 floods that took place in Vermont. “A multisolving recovery would ensure that every dollar and every hour of investment serves more than one goal,” Sawin said. “It would design for the future that’s coming, not the past we once knew. It would expand […]
Elizabeth Sawin speaks on multisolving in two new podcasts
In two new podcasts, Multisolving Institute Founder and Director Elizabeth Sawin talks multisolving and system thinking. Read below to learn more. Dumbo Feather Elizabeth Sawin: scientist, systems thinker, multi solver “Multisolving is the idea that you can use one investment of time or money or energy to solve more than one problem at one time. So, in […]
Climate Leadership and Multisolving: A Conversation With Katharine Wilkinson of The All We Can Save Project
Join Multisolving Institute Founder and Director Beth Sawin on Thurs., July 28 at 12pm ET for a conversation with Katharine Wilkinson, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the The All We Can Save Project. Grounded in Dr. Wilkinson’s expertise in and vision of a leaderful and feminist climate movement, the conversation will explore the ways in which […]
