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The Yeast Strategy

What are we trying to achieve?

1. To love our neighbours (Matthew 22:39)2. To prepare the way for the Kingdom3. To demonstrate the presence of the Kingdom

Engaging in Social Transformation

Why is it difficult?

• ‘Christophobia’• Competition from

other ideologies• Knowing where it is

possible to make a difference

The Yeast Strategy

• Ideas go viral• Work below the radar• Focus at the organisational level

What is Relational Thinking?

Relational Thinking is a social philosophy based on Judaeo-Christian values which seeks just and close relationships for community harmony and personal wellbeing. (Seek the ‘shalom’ and prosperity of the city Jeremiah 29:7)

What is Relational Thinking?New categories and new language

Note link to:• Directness• Continuity• Multiplexity• Parity• Commonality

Wider context of the yeast strategy

Challenges Facing Europe

• Ideological• Demographic • Economic• Political• Technologies

The Ideological Challenge: How we see life

• Financial lens• Environmental lens• Individual lens

Demographic Challenges

Lithuania Romania Italy Germany Switzerland Self-sustaining population

Number of children per adult woman (TFR)

Self-liquidating nations

Family instability

Demographic Challenges

Growing wealth and income differentials Economic Challenges

Economic Challenges

UK France Portugal Italy Spain Greece0%

18%23%

54%58%

Levels of Youth Unemployment (Ages 16-24)Source: Eurostat

Debt as percentage of GDP

Economic ChallengesDebt as Percentage of Tax Revenue

France

Germany

Greece

0% 80% 160% 240% 320% 400% 480% 560%

Source: IMF, Eurostat

Financial Stability

Economic Challenges

ExxonMobil Shell Walmart Stores

Austria Denmark Greece0

500 $491 B$478 B $476 B

$415 B

$331 B

$242 B

Revenue of corporations and GDP of countries in Billions of US$

IMF, 2014

Economic ChallengesSize of multinationals

Election turnout % in the 2014 European elections Political ChallengesDisengaged voters

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Election turnout % in the 2014 European elections

Political ChallengesIdentity Politics

Technological Challenges

The changing world of work

Technological ChallengesIndividualistic (de)vices

Key Elements of the Yeast Strategy

Transform:• People’s thinking• The Church• Organisations

Transform people’s thinking

• Perspective (e.g. Fall --> Rupture)• Language (e.g. Rights, Development, Consent)• Priorities (e.g. Work-Life Balance)• Forgiveness (e.g. in Families)

Transform the Church

• Priorities• Training• Practice

Transform Organisations

• Schools• Companies• Finance• Hospitals• NGOs

Schools

• New Goals• Curriculum• R parents/school• R between pupils• R teacher/pupil• R skills assessment

Schools

• New Goals• Curriculum• R parents/school• R between pupils• R teacher/pupil• R skills assessment

The individual

What does it mean to graduate?

Place of Pupils?

We worry a good deal about this…

…and education that looks like this

There is a greater worry…

Questioning the system

• How do we arrive at our values?• How do we refresh our values in a world that

is structured in such way that it erodes or demolishes such values?

• How do the systems we create, alter from the systems we criticise?

Schools

• New Goals• Curriculum• R parents/school• R teacher/pupil• R between pupils• R skills assessment

Parents

True parental engagement happens on two levels:

• with the school and• with the child in the home.

Parents

Schools

Teachers

Schools

Students

• Positive peer to peer relationships impact on a student’s academic and non-academic performance in secondary education.

Students

Positive peer interaction correlates well with:1. student motivation;2. student engagement;3. and academic outcomes.

Students• to better understand and

promote positive relationships within the class, year group and in the school community more broadly;

• to encourage fellow pupils to treat each other with greater respect.

Teachers and Students

What students tells us…

“The relationships amongst each other in this class depend entirely on who’s taking the lesson…If the teacher is good – we tend to get on”

We’re better together….

Transform Companies

From shareholders to stakeholders

Company

Suppliers

Customers

Community

Shareholders

Transform Companies

Figure 1. The capital supply chain for equity in listed companies

Transform Companies

No absentee landlords

Transform Finance

• Use of capital to build relationships• New organisations to promote local

investment• Involvement of savers/investors• Wider home ownership (spreads wealth)• Shared equity to avoid mortgage debt

Financial initiatives by ChristiansPast & Present

• Building Societies• Housing Associations• Credit Unions• Jubilee 2000 • Allia• RISER (Relational Investment for a Shared Equity Residence)

• Family Associations

Transform Healthcare

• Health for self or relationships• Better relationships between key groups

• Clinicians/managers• Doctors/nurses• Doctors/patients• Hospitals/communities

• Illness prevention

Transform NGOs tackling poverty

• Redefine poverty• Measure and manage key relationships e.g.–NGO/welfare recipients–Donors/NGOs–NGO/NGO

• Assess R outcomes (e.g. micro-credit)

A Relational Society

What would it look like?• Public commitment to develop healthier

relationships• Strong family commitment, low marriage

breakdown, time spent with children• Business sector characterised by SMEs funded locally• Schools and universities with relational goals,

structures etc.• A health system that recognises the link between

spiritual, relational and physical health• National assessments of relational well-being

The Role of EEA

• To help churches understand that Christianity is all about relationships

• To encourage churches to consider the Relational agenda for church life

• To provide training in Relational Thinking for church and national leaders

• To support Christians seeking to bring Relational values into organisations

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