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title: "WEBINAR | Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets & Practices"
description: "The team at CoCreative has developed tools, resources, and strategies to purposefully assist people in collectively taking on complex, systemic challenges. Their approach focuses on deepening engagement and building momentum to advance strategy and impact.
In this webinar, Russ, Heather, and Luzette will lead a co-inquiry to deepen our shared understanding of productive failure, why it is important to systems change and the key mindsets that need to be challenged to do so."
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# WEBINAR | Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets & Practices
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In this webinar, the speakers worked together to develop collective knowledge and awareness around having a healthy relationship with failure – and how to realize the benefits of failing productively in their work.
As we move through this era of disruption we are being pushed to take on deeper systemic challenges. As changemakers, how do we embrace failure as an inevitable part of the work of shifting complex systems? And how do we detangle it from feelings of fear that prevent us from taking the deep risks needed to advance real change?
The team at [CoCreative](https://www.wearecocreative.com/home) has developed tools, resources, and strategies to purposefully assist people in collectively taking on complex, systemic challenges. Their approach focuses on deepening engagement and building momentum to advance strategy and impact.
In this webinar, Russ, Heather, and Luzette led a co-inquiry to deepen our shared understanding of productive failure, why it is important to systems change and the key mindsets that need to be challenged to do so.
Speakers: Russ Gaskin, Heather Equinoss, Luzette Jaimes and Sonja Miokovic
### For More Information:
- View slido [here](https://app.sli.do/event/6SYA9Wj5BntwBBRBNzkQVo/live/ideas) and the webinar slide deck [here](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/FAILING%20PRODUCTIVELY%20_WEBINAR_FINAL(1).pdf)
- Read more about tools here[ www.wearecocreative.com/tools](https://www.wearecocreative.com/tools)
- Read Lisa Attygalle’s paper[ Creating a Culture of Engagement](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/paper-creating-culture-community-engagement?hsLang=en-us) which explores the fear we might feel when deeply engaging citizens in community change work
- Check out[ Fail Forward](https://failforward.org/) to develop skills in learning from fear of failure
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