The Social Field is a podcast that showcases stories about what it means to be a social performance practitioner. Designed for people from a range of sectors (mining, oil and gas, renewable energy, forestry, agriculture, protected areas management and more) this will be appeal both to those directly involved in the discipline and to those accountable for teams doing stakeholder engagement, socio-economic development in communities, and social risk and impact management.

This is a teaser for the six new episodes launched as part of season two.

Credits

Presented by: Lisa van Dongen

Co-producers: Mzamo Moloi and Lisa van Dongen

Sound design and engineering: Audiodacious

Special thanks to all contributors.

This episode introduces you to The Social Field season two,defending the value of spaces like this and presenting storytelling as the structuring device for the rest of the season. As part of this episode, we link the focus directly to the work of addressing our most intractable problems associal performance practitioners. We also introduce some of our storytelling gurus who help us understand the strategic value stories can offer to our businesses and our work in sustainability and social change.

Contact:

To learn more about the work Jess Schulschenk is involvedin, follow her on https://www.linkedin.com/in/jess-schulschenk-9627944.You can also find out more about the Embedding Project at https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=embedding%20project&origin=GLOBAL_SEARCH_HEADER&sid=K-.

To learn more about the work Brian Fitzgerald is involvedin, follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfit.You can also find the resources he mentions in his interview at the followingwebsite: https://www.dancing-fox.com.

Credits

Presented by: Lisa van Dongen

Co-producers: Mzamo Moloi and Lisa van Dongen

Sound design and engineering: Audiodacious

Special thanks to all contributors.

Mpinane Mmahlatji, a facilitator of complex multi-stakeholder processes shares her rich experience of how important it is to start our interventions by gaining a deeper appreciation of the system and challenge we are facing. She also suggests we reframe how we plan for transition and exits. Kalnisha Singh adds to this discussion with a reflection on how to understand the moment one finds oneself in. She also challenges us to imagine the future with more ambition. Here the storytelling device of ‘timing’ teaches us how to orientate ourselves and others in the telling of our own stories, how to pace our interventions appropriately for different stakeholder audiences, and how to define our planning horizons in ways that support more meaningful conversations and outcomes.

Contact:

To learn more about the work Mpinane is involved in, follow her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpinane-mmahlatji-formerly-senkhane-7ab6a696.

To learn more about Kalnisha’s work follow her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalnisha-singh or go to KD Strategies website at https://kdstrategies.co.za.

Credits

Presented by: Lisa van Dongen

Co-producers: Mzamo Moloi and Lisa van Dongen

Sound design and engineering: Audiodacious

Special thanks to all contributors.