playbook for change
work in progress
overview
Introduction
With a bit of luck, the playbook will always be a work in progress, a growing collection, discussed and shaped by many. That would make it into an invaluable work.
I make a start with my thoughts and ideas, and I invite you to contribute, both to existing thoughts and with additions.
The playbook for change has a companion: Campaigns for our future with practical ideas for campaigns, which I hope will become a work by many as well.
Both the playbook and Campaigns for our future have accounts on Bluesky, both will make all ideas easily accessible, both encourage contributions and discussions.
Once the playbook has more content, it will be available as e-book. There will be a free pdf and a priced pdf to give the reader the option to support this project.
The playbook for change on Bluesky: @playbookforchange.bsky.social
Campaigns for the future on Bluesky:
@campaign-ideas
Preliminary structure
I gave the playbook a preliminary structure of nine sections. Each section has its own page on this website.
Probably starting on 14 April, I will begin to add content for each points and link them to the respective page.
Basics
- Asking WHY
- Exploring together
- The brain
- Making thinking & rethinking/reshaping popular
- Debates, discourse
- digging deeper, sideways & expanding
- Press pause (including demand time to think)
- Learning/improving imagination
- Rethinking everything
- Science, Socrates & Da Vinci
- Debunk & rethink/replace narratives
- Change the story, shape the world
- Make it happen stories — MiHS
- Alternative realities
- A culture of storytelling
- Humour & ridicule
- Congratulations
- Words, rephrase
- Silence
All change starts with us
- Self-reflection
- Face personal arrogance, condescension, self-righteousness
- Exploring personal defensiveness
- Compassion
- Communication, in the dark, out of the dark
- Healing
- Connections, connecting, overcoming divides
- Mutual support networks
- Laughing
- Hope
Got to All change starts with us >
Playfulness
- Let’s play, get out of the seriousness trap
- Story challenges
- more challenges
- Bets
- Fights for fun
- Distract for the future, making use of cute animal scrolling
- Fun
- Laughing
- QR codes
Online actions
- Intentional fake news — IFNs
- False alarm
- Trend what counts
- Being many voices
- Flood
- Open a conversation
- Empower
- Mood boosts
Art & media tools
- Songs
- Comics
- Graffiti
- Books
- Visual Arts
- Theatre
- Improvisation
- Movies
- Series
- Shorts
- Podcasts
- Documentaries
Make a difference
by
- focusing
- focusing / refocusing
- resisting generalisations
- being precise about truth
Building alternatives (communities/businesses/products/services)
- Villages
- Towns
- Cities
- Tourism
- Transport
- Businesses
- Business networks
- Raw material supply chains
- Internet
- Software
- Operating systems
- Devices
- Services
Go to Building alternatives I >
Building alternatives (coming together)
- people networks
- communities
- political systems
- nations
- trade
Go to Building alternatives II >
More actions
- campaigns
- challenge laws
- boycotts
- rallies
- demonstrations
- writing letters
- calling representatives
- filibuster
The playbook for change on bluesky: @playbookforchange.bsky.social
Charlie Alice Raya, 3 April 2025
