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 Facilitators: Maja Kuzmanovic, Nik Gaffney, Vali Lalioti
+This is the last workshop of the first year of [[start|Marine CoLAB]]. Louisa Hooper compared it to standing at the seashore at low tide, with rocks and mud emerging under water, so we can begin to see the peaks, as well as what underlies them. One of the biggest challenges for this workshop and the coming year is how to do less with game-changing effectiveness. It is important to look at the big picture as well well as the practicalities of the months and year(s) to come.
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 ==== Framing ====
-This is the last workshop of the first year of Marine CoLAB. Louisa Hooper compared it to standing at the seashore at low tide, with rocks and mud emerging under water, so we can begin to see the peaks, as well as what underlies them. One of the biggest challenges for this workshop and the coming year is how to do less with game-changing effectiveness. It is important to look at the big picture as well well as the practicalities of the months and year(s) to come.
 Maja Kuzmanovic looked back over the notes of the past year and distilled a few points from previous discussions on the future of Marine CoLAB, that can be used as a starting point or a point of discussion, when looking forward to 2016 and beyond. Marine CoLAB participants are keen to seize opportunities to reframe challenges and refresh whole systems. They do this by being a part of trusted collaborations and networks. After a year of working together, the facilitators added that the participants are very keen to and good at designing and working on projects.
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 Over the course of several workshops, a range of challenges for Marine CoLAB were identified, including systemic change, public engagement, valuing (cultural dimensions) of oceans, perception of marine conservation, transparency of marine industries and plastic pollution of oceans. The facilitators observed an additional challenge: developing a sustainable support network beyond and in-between projects. This is something that began to be addressed in Lisbon and continues in this workshop.
-Finally, before delving into the futures, mission, values and a range of experiments, projects and activities, it might be helpful to remind ourselves of the CGF’s goal for Marine CoLAB: **To communicate the role of the ocean for human wellbeing (particularly connecting natural sciences and economy).**.
+Finally, before delving into the futures, mission, values and a range of experiments, projects and activities, it might be helpful to remind ourselves of the CGF’s goal for Marine CoLAB: **To communicate the role of the ocean for human wellbeing** (particularly connecting natural sciences and economy).
+==== Agenda ====
+In the morning the participants focused om Marine CoLAB as a whole. Beginning with reflecting on **Marine CoLAB so far**: what worked and what needs more work. Grounded in this experience they moved into a visioning process lead by Giles to clarify the overall **Marine CoLAB vision and mission**. At the end of the morning Sue took the group through a beautiful presentation and discussion of the **values based approach**, as a lens that can be used to shape and evaluate projects, experiments and the initiative itself. In the afternoon, the focus was on **Marine CoLAB project incubator**, beginning with a broad mapping of existing and emerging projects by participating organisations which could be relevant to Marine CoLAB facilitated by Aniol. Two following sessions discussed the two projects that emerged from previous workshops: possible directions for GameOn guided by Sandy and a working/planning session for the Plastic Bottles project lead by Heather. At the end of the day we came back to **Marine CoLAB's future in 2016**.
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-====Future of Marine CoLAB====
+=== What worked? ===
+== People ==
+  * Supportive and energising group of people; Imaginative, energetic, energising and funny; Respectful; Genuine and committed people; Passionate, focussed and willing to put in time
+  * Open - want to be doing this; Openness of everyone in embracing something new - nice people
+  * Enthusiasm, engagement and energy of members during LAB meetings
+  * Broad range of skills, expertise and organisation; Balance of skills and knowledge
+  * Good balance of personalities
+  * Willingness to communicate
+  * Good size of group
+  * Good vibes!
+== Time & space to explore ===
+  * Flexibility, freedom
+  * Time spent together without explicit xxx/outcomes
+  * Thinking about issues from different perspectives
+  * Lack of territoriality and competition
+  * Building connections within the group
+  * Time, workshops to explore - facilitation has helped
+  * New dimensions brought in from CGF (e.g. other labs and communities)
+  * Workshops in stimulating environments - allowing us to think outside our daily / OP’s (?)
+== Community building ==
+  * Listening and finding out about different ways we create change
+  * A clearer sense of each other and the interests from our organisations
+  * We are trying to understand each others’ strengths and see how working together could add value
+  * Building a sense of vision and ambition
+  * The team is becoming more confidently creative and innovative - sharing and talking more - developing a TRUSTED network; Trust each other to share ideas, thoughts strengths and weaknesses - no territoriality
+  * Self-organising - members of the team are taking the lead on aspects of work - shared leadership
+  * Individual initiative starts the ball rolling (e.g. Heather - Plastics, Giles - Vision/mission, Sue - Values, Aniol - Incubator…)
+  * Finding a common project (e.g. Plastic pollution) to get our teeth into a specific challenge, that uses existing skills and interests - sum bigger than parts.
+  * Mix of work and social
+  * Developing new networks and relationships; Global -> local networks
+== Support ==
+  * CGF: Hands-on engagement, support and guidance of Louisa and CGF, their agility and responsiveness (e.g. supporting conference attendance(?)
+  * Facilitators: Support + facilitation and advance planning; facilitators help to keep on track; Capturing and documenting of what happened
+  * Connections of the group to 'enablers' (e.g. Oak)
+=== What needs more work? ===
+== Time! ==
+  * Time to deliver our potential of all ideas and projects
+  * Finding enough time to engage outside of project ideas are not core business
+  * More time thinking and developing a framework for evaluation
+  * Retain energy over longer term; retain energy once in project delivery mode
+  * Communication between meetings; time to do things and connect between meetings (though it is happening); Embedding CoLAB work between workshops - last minute flurry of preparation for each one.
+  * Information overload - not always possible to digest what is shared
+== CoLAB ==
+  * Define a sense of direction
+  * Clarity of vision and objectives
+  * Application of value frame to other work
+  * Come back to CGF’s aim valuing the oceans and thinking about strategies to tackle this directly - not getting caught in the "project trap", keeping our ambition at a "game changing" level; Avoiding silos and splits between different threads
+  * Developing ideas/projects on more underlying but important challenges (e.g. transparency)
+  * Identify the best skills and input a Marcolab project can give to specific needs
+  * Bringing in more of an "arts + culture" viewpoint
+  * Articulation of where Marine CoLAB fits with other initiatives
+  * Structure to support without becoming burdensome machine
+  * Need to figure out how to enable effective communication (between individuals, between the CoLAB and the organisations)
+== Communication and stakeholder engagement ==
+  * Clearly communicating what the Marine CoLAB is and does
+  * Connecting beyond the LAB, both with LAB organisations and other orgs.
+  * Promotion of ideas and approaches to wider community
+  * Connecting to other things happening at CGF: other projects and areas of work CGF supports + learning from other work CGF supported
+  * System to enable dissemination of thoughts and approaches and coalesce (?)
+  * (fishermen, mpa’s, pollution)
+  * Ability to integrate others in some aspects, without losing cohesion of the group
+  * Creative communications - communicating complex concepts, training…
+== Connect to organisations ==
+  * Dedicated staff
+  * In-house skills and capacity for four group projects
+  * Us as individuals in CoLAB vs us as organisation; thinking about organisational/institutional buy-in and engagement; using more of the entire skillsets of organisations (e.g. corporate responsibility, 'creative' legal approaches, etc.; connecting beyond individuals to others in our organisations; additional collaborators to deliver projects (buy-in); would like to draw on expertise of colleagues
+  * Understanding how to manage and maximise positive feedback into participating organisations
+=== What can we improve? ===
+Get better at knowing "who we are, where we go and how we do it".
+== Organisational buy-in ==
+  * Engage not just individuals, but whole organisations in Marine CoLAB. This could be accomplished by:
+    * Clarifying the strategic lines of work of Marine CoLAB (3 lines?)
+    * Offering value add (e.g. building effective collaborations)
+    * Try to find a common agenda that all organisations would be interested in
+  * If Marine CoLAB activities can fit into day-to-day agendas of existing work in the participating organisations, more time can be freed to work on them
+  * Think about the structure of the collaboration and how it could overlap with organisational missions, activities and strategies.
+== Sustainability ==
+  * innovation
+  * collaboration
+  * projects
+  * Core funding is likely to be needed for Marine CoLAB as a whole, as some of the organisations are only funded on a project basis, so do not have the capacity to offer people’s time. While it is important to get Marine CoLAB projects funded, the benefit of the collaboration needs the CoLAB as a whole funded as well.
+== Communication ==
+(within organisations, with stakeholders)
+  * Focus outwards
+  * Create a thought piece explaining something like "this is the benefit of 12 months of Marine CoLAB", using the plastics project and other key outcomes as milestones.
+Communicate how it affected ways of working, what effects it had on specific projects, potential long term value for oceans, etc.
+====Future of Marine CoLAB====
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 ====Mission / MIX====
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+( cross reference w. Giles' notes )
+  * network focused on values based solutions to protect & restore the ocean
+  * a collective is a powerful means to address the urgent need for humans to value the oceans & drive change
+  * we aim to achieve a shift in how the  ocean is valued by individuals and society to improve ocean health
+  * recognising existing values, rather than changing or creating 'new' values
+  * we tackle the issues by collaborating, incubating, innovating, catalysing and influencing
+  * s/collection/network
+  * values based -> USP
+  * requires time-frame?
+  * we aim to achieve
+    * organisations all have a theory of change, glue is the values based piece...
+    * as a lab, how do we experiment with strategies?
+    * economic shift? perceptual shifts?
+  * clearer ideas for methods to 'amplify' existing values
+  * behaviour shift as a result of uncovering existing values, finding where values & behaviour are at odds.
+  * something for 2016 -> values based campaigning (chris rose ? also NEF)
 ====Values based approach====
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+There is a need to find a language all Marine CoLAB participants understand, paying attention to jargon. There is a difference between the term "values" and "value", both are part of one whole, but can be understood quite differently. Sue’s session focused on values that connect people and places. What is important in a place? Values are developed through experience and interaction, and form the heartfelt connections between the people and a place, adding to human wellbeing. From these connections "cultural ecosystem services" beyond monetary value can be developed. They include a wider context, create whole ecosystems of interconnected disciplines (e.g. conservation, economy, mythology, wellbeing…) and incorporate different ways of talking and telling stories about a place.  They deliver benefits to human wellbeing and are connected to other ecosystem services.
+In order to uncover deeper values, we need to start with basic connectedness (of people and places, different disciplines, different people. This can form a glue, a common basis and shared understanding.
+  * developing a shared language based around values we can use to communicate within the group
+  * 'values of people' <--> 'value of the oceans'
+  * uncovering existing values, aligning values
+  * issue based theory of change -> value based
+  * bringing various voices, with various values into discussion
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