In this co-presentation at Franchise for Humanity Stanford University, California on Feb 21st, 2014, Terry Beaubois of Creativity Research Labs, University of Montana, Kennan Salinero of Yamana Science and Technology, and Terry Mandel of BioMedLink illustrate the use of narrative, combined with our Aspirations template, to create collaborations, synchronicity, and breakthroughs in challenges facing the planet and its inhabitants.
Kennan Salinero talks about the use of narrative in telling your story. She describes the experiment they are conducting with Yamana science and Technology and the use of narrative, sharing herself to 'break open the room' at Universities and research centers in the United States... the use of narrative to shift the space.
From the template provided, Terry Beaubois asks participants to delineate:
Aspirations,
Short term partners, and
Long term goals
...to get to the core of 'why you're here' immediately, to be aware of what makes you happy, and to turn that inspiration into your aspirations.
At 6:30 minutes, Terry Mandel of BiomedLink displays the use of the aspirations template to give her narrative on what she is passionate about: effective implementation of health-care technology in developing countries. People are always shocked when Terry tells them $90 billion is spent on medical devices and personal mobile health apps in the developing world...yet 70% of the medical devices purchased don't work in place. One consequence is that 3 billion people have NO ACCESS to health care. There is a disconnect between the intention of the $90billion spent and the desired improvements in health.Terry Mandel's organization, BioMedLink, is about bridging the disconnect between the innovators and the recipients, bringing all of the stakeholders - innovators, health workers, sellers of the devices, and the target recipients, together.From the template:
Aspiration – to systematize serendipity in global health.
Challenges – Where's my team? Where are our funders?
Supports – Franchise for Humanity, others (that are not yet visible)