Welcome back. In this video, I'll show you how to use deck number 3, actions for transformation. This is the last deck in the toolkit for transformation. Let me show you an example of a card from this deck. Here you see action card number 3, which is designed to help address broken health systems. Establish a COVID-19 death compensation fund. Now, what is this? Family members of those who have succumbed to COVID-19 would receive a monthly government payment similar to the Social Security Survivor's benefit here in the United States, which people receive for three years after the death of their loved ones. The back of each action card includes potential arguments in favor. These are the why points and also arguments against this idea, these are the why not points. Now, here you can see the arguments in favor of this action are reduce medical debt incurred under an unforgiving healthcare system. A grace period for survivors to build new income sources and or attend college. And compensation for acknowledged failure of government to act responsibly in the COVID-19 crisis. And here are some arguments against it. An expansion of the large COVID-19 debt already on government books, and maybe competition with other potentially more equitable safety net programs. There's also a spot on each action card for a bit of prediction making. If this action were taken, then what might happen next? Here, you can use your imagination to try to think of some ripple effects. For example, maybe this would open the door to other kinds of reparation payments for government failures. What about a universal scholarship fund to cover the learning that was lost by young people who gave up their education to help shield and protect older and more at risk members of society? Thinking about what might happen next could give you more arguments in favor, or maybe against the action might make you feel more excited about this idea or maybe more cautious about it. So as you can see, each card and the actions for transformation deck has one big bold idea for trying to heal from the patterns of the past and try to set a new agenda for a more resilient society. These are not meek or mild ideas, they are provocative and challenging. This deck may make you feel uncomfortable sometimes, and hopefully also maybe once or twice exhilarated by the possibility to do something radically different than humanity has ever tried to do before. One quick note, each of the action cards in this deck is tagged and color coded to one of the deeper diseases. So you can quickly scan the deck for actions that are connected to the patterns from the past. And the innovations for the future that you chose to work with in previous rounds of conversation when you played with the previous decks. What does this round of conversation look like? Well, you've looked at the past, you've looked at innovations for the future, now it's time to talk about taking action today. Your goal as a group is to decide which big ideas and bold action can do the most good as we try to recover and reinvent society after COVID-19. Here's how the game play works. First, ask each participant to pick their favorite action card from the deck. Don't deal these cards randomly. Let everyone review the actions and choose their favorite. If you've already played the deck number one or number two, you can encourage everyone to focus on actions that are tagged and color coded to the same deeper disease category as their favorite cards from previous rounds. And don't be afraid to do a web search to learn more about the ideas on these cards, a lot of them are big and complex. And if you've never heard of the idea on a card you're dealt, you could have another kind of a quick Internet scavenger hunt to power up your group's knowledge. Let everybody come back and share what they learned. Next, discussed the chosen cards one at a time. Ask people, what's the most positive thing you think this action could accomplish in the long run? Which of the why and why not arguments are most convincing to you? Can you think of any other arguments in favor or against this action? What might happen next as a ripple effect? And now that you've looked at some examples of transformative actions, are there any other big ideas for new policies, business practices, technology uses, laws or other transformative actions that you would like the group to consider? Add them to the deck and conversation. This step is really important, by the way, there are 21 cards in the deck to give you 21 examples of transformative actions. But there are so many more possibilities out there, including more than 50 additional transformative actions that we talked about in our week two videos as possible healing solutions or strategies for the deeper disease. You may want to go back to those week two videos and pull some solutions and strategies from there. And please just don't feel limited at this point to the cards in the deck. This is an opportunity for you to go out and bring into the conversation, maybe some of the bigger bolder ideas that you've had in the back of your mind or that you've been curious about. And there are facilitation guidelines in the full toolkit for actually working with a group to quickly brainstorm 100 new transformative action ideas so you can build up a much bigger deck together. And by the way, another way to ask people to come up with a new transformative action for the deck is to ask this question. Do you have a favorite innovation for the future card from deck number two? And if so, what would it look like if you could make the signal of change so much bigger? Make it true across a whole city, or an entire nation, or the entire world. What would the most ambitious, the most transformative version of this signal of change of this innovation look like? At this point, you may want to organize into smaller teams or conversation pairs to focus on one action that each person is now most excited about. Or if there's a lot of momentum around one action among the whole group, you can move forward with that one action as a whole group. And now you'll find it helpful to think about who makes this type of transformation possible. Who are the agents of change for this idea? Name as many different kinds of people, businesses, organizations and groups who might be able to make this future more likely. Most importantly, how could you be an agent of change for this idea? Would you be willing to advocate for it online, at school or at work, or in your community? What skills, talents or personal knowledge could you use to be a part of this transformation? It could be simple. Would you like to make a public commitment, maybe on social media, to become an advocate for this policy or this transformative action. Maybe you will become someone who helps share and spread and make more popular this idea, or it could be more hands on. Maybe you'll develop a new project or initiative at your workplace to start monitoring a particular future risk. Or to pilot an innovation or to brainstorm the role that your organization might play in addressing one of these historical patterns from the past. These deeper diseases, like economic inequality or racial injustice. Maybe you can even imagine yourself sometime in the next three to five years doing something big, like starting a new business or a new community service that helps make people's post pandemic lives better. You don't have to know right now exactly what you might do. You could just come up with a very simple sketch of an idea, something you might explain in a few words or a sentence. That's a great place to start. Finally, it's go time. What could you do in five minutes to get this work underway right now? Is there an email you could write? Is there a social media post you could make? Is there a book you could order or a podcast you could download? Is there a community meeting you could RSVP yes for? Or a meeting you could set up and schedule and invite others to? Could you free right for five minutes about an idea for a business or community service you might want to create? Could you doodle or draw something that represents a positive image of the future you'd like to contribute to? So you can put it up on the wall and remind yourself that you want to play an active part in making this future? Your goal here is to make a plan for an easy micro action with zero obstacles in the way. And then, if you can, as a group, spend five minutes, everybody really taking your first action. Go for it now today. Just do it. If everyone in the group has a transformative action, a big pulled idea for the future that they're excited to support and advocate for. And they have a five minute action plan to start showing that support, that's a win. And that's how you play with the actions for transformation deck. And the best thing about this deck is it really starts to put you in a better position to be someone who helps decide what our post pandemic future will really be like. It helps you find that very first button of change that you can press and maybe helps you start to develop a habit of finding ways to move these transformative ideas forward. And again, I encourage you to download the full toolkit, because there are lots of ways to play with this third deck. So download the kit and read the facilitation guidelines. You'll see all the things that you can do with deck number three. One more practical tip, as always. There's an index for this deck at the end of the toolkit. You can see the actions index here. This index lists each card idea and card number, and it's organized by the seven deeper diseases. So you can use this index to jump to a particular card or quickly scan the list for ideas that jump out at you. Now you know how to use deck number three, actions for transformation. Are you ready to try a small practice round of using this tool kit just by yourself? This is going to be your final project for the course. I will see you in the next video to give you all of the instructions. I'm excited. I will see you there. [MUSIC]
