The Adaptive Journey

We invite you to join us on the Adaptive journey. Whether you are just starting out and barely at the idea stage but know you want to make a difference or whether you are a well established organization with a long history and solid team, we are here to support you. Operating in these times is a learning journey for all of us and there are no precedents.

We offer a suite of services that are always customized to your needs and we accompany you on your journey as you build your own adaptive capacity and embark on your own transformative initiatives. Our purpose is to support you at whatever level you need us. If you want hands-on support we are here to accompany you on a learning journey regardless of where you are starting from.

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Incubator Program

As part of our mission to support transformative change and to give back as a social enterprise, we offer a free incubator program for emerging change agents. This is a demanding but extremely rewarding capacity-building experience for passionate change agents early in your operations. It will be completely tailored to your specific situation. It is a 6 months long program consisting of hands-on online workshops and pro bono consulting specific to your issue.

See Call for Applications here. Deadline for 2023 is December, 15 2022.

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Adaptive Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Our approach to monitoring, evaluation and learning is to integrate it as part of an initiative or project from the beginning as opposed to a separate activity only done at the end or at infrequent intervals. An adaptive monitoring and evaluation process keeps you in learning mode and will facilitate your ability to proactively respond to changes on the ground that you otherwise may not have been aware of until too late.

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Collaborative System Mapping

We offer a variety of visual methods and approaches to help change agents co-create a shared understanding of their situation of interest or concern. It is often very useful to diagram how we understand a situation and the process of doing this as a team can create powerful insights. At AdaptivePurpose, we usually use various diagramming and other visual mapping techniques to take teams through a process of discovery, exploration and consensus building as they delve deeply into their own system of interest and explore its dynamics as well as their own paradigms.

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Theory of Change/Theory of Transformation

We support and provide facilitation to help you and your team develop your own systemic theory of change for your initiative. A theory of change can help you articulate and see the big picture of how change is believed to happen. A systemic theory of change is different from traditional linear theories of change in that it recognizes the inherent complexity of most change processes.

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Webinars and Workshops

We offer a variety of both live webinars and workshops as well as a library of resources for your own asynchronous learning and capacity-building. Our goal is to equip you with the best possible approaches, methodologies and tools to carry out your important work. We can also develop customized trainings and workshops for your organization and team.

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