What are the first steps in reimagining how to discover and power the most promising solutions for prevention? Community and system partners need to be in the room and have real conversations on what proven approaches help them arrive at shared values?

Sharing key struggles and successes of their 25-year journey developing processes that make radical collaboration between community and systems possible and successful, the Burns Institute (BI) will demystify stubborn barriers and clarify how centering community always makes a path forward.

Using BI’s Structural Well-Being Framework, attendees will learn practices that prime them to hold spaces where permission, imagining futures, and belonging exist alongside hard conversations and conflict. That’s where and how current systems can undergo meaningful transformations and new systems are born.