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Innovation Collaboration learning community

These are communities of diverse social enterprise actors that are set up to innovate and transform systems. They experiment with doing things differently to bring to life a just, healing, and regenerative future that enables people and the planet to thrive. Key attributes of Innovation Collaboration learning communities are that they: -Emerge around complex challenges and focus on a bold goal. -Engage a variety of diverse actors to experiment with breakthrough ideas and new practices. -Involve bottom-up, top-down, and side-to-side innovation that spans organisational and sectoral boundaries. -Explore equity in social enterprise design, development, policy, practice, and leadership. -Question dominant assumptions and challenge us to see and be differently. -Grow connections. -Focus on learning in action and experimentation. -Learn and practice humility and shared responsibility for the future the Sector wants to see and be. -Learn and practice healing-centred systems change, recognising that individual, intergenerational, collective, historical, and systemic traumas are present in any form of social justice and change work.

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