Beyond Behaviour Change

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What happens when you swap changing consumer 'behaviour' for changing consumer 'habits' or 'practices'? Anything? Just a linguistic turn? Splitting hairs? This presentation encourages us to think of 'change' in 4 different ways - borrowing from at least 4 different academic disciplines: psychology, behavioural economics, political theory and sociology. It shows how these different disciplines configure change and agency differently. This is important because how we frame the problem will direct or shape any action. So instead of proposing 'what works best' - let's keep our conceptual toolbox open - and find the right tool for the job, whatever we consider that to be.

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Beyond Behaviour Change4th June 2013

Dr SimonBlyth

simon@actant.co

@Simon_Blyth

THINK changing minds

DO changing actions

INDIVIDUAL individual change

SOCIAL social change

THINK changing minds

DO changing actions

INDIVIDUAL individual change

SOCIAL social change

Ways To Change No. 1�

Mindshare Marketing

Knowledge, attitudes, values and beliefs drive the behaviours that consumers choose to adopt.

Our role is to persuade.

Change comes from changing minds.

THINK changing minds

DO changing actions

INDIVIDUAL individual change

SOCIAL social change

Ways to Change No. 2

Nudge

Never mind what people think. Change what they do. Subtle behavioural ‘nudges’ can have a major impact.

Our role is to manage choice.

Change comes from altering the context, at the moment when choices are made.

THINK changing minds

DO changing actions

INDIVIDUAL individual change

SOCIAL social change

Ways to Change No. 3

Public Deliberation

When people come together and talk openly and publicly – they often change what they think and sometimes what they do.

“To achieve a just society we have to be able to reason together about the meaning of the good life, and to create a public culture hospitable to the disagreements that will inevitably rise.”

Michael J Sandel

From consumer as chooser To consumer as citizen

Our role is to create new spaces and methods that will foster and support ‘consumer/citizen’ led enquiry, creativity and movements. It’s also up to us to support requests for action.

Change comes from ‘consumers/citizens’ participating in public life.

THINK changing minds

DO changing actions

INDIVIDUAL individual change

SOCIAL social change

Ways to Change No. 4

Designing Practices

The origins of human conduct are as much in the structures of society, as they are in the agency of individuals. �

Seeing everyday life as a series of practices

commut-ing

breakfast-ing

shower-ing

school run-ning

football-ing

cycl-ing

work-ing

STUFF E.g. Shower pumps & instant unlimited

hot water

STORIES E.g. A private and

personal space

SKILLS E.g. The quick wash

Practices are made of 3 elements

STUFF Innovate the infrastructure E.g. Wakey wakey

plunge pools

STORIES Innovate the discourses & conventions

E.g. Reposition bathing as a ‘quality shared family time’

SKILLS Innovate the

schedules, frameworks & competences

E.g. Twice weekly communal work-based bathing to enhance

employee well-being & team bonding

Ways to resuscitate the practice of twice weekly bathing?

Change comes from changing practices (not from changing people or ‘behaviours’).

Our role is either that of convenor or that of stakeholder - to help create new practices and unmake others.

THINK changing minds

DO changing actions

INDIVIDUAL individual change

SOCIAL social change

Decision Making

Big Complex Issues

Information Provision

Embedded Habits & Routines

Thank you. simon@actant.co

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