Many individuals were uplifted and empowered. But the one thing it didn’t change was the system producing inequality in the first place.

Jack Manning Bancroft is an Indigenous Australian change-maker who built the juggernaut organisation AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience) on the power of hope, trust falls, high fives and “follow your dream!” tropes. It worked. Many individuals were uplifted and empowered. But the one thing it didn’t change was the system producing inequality in the first place. Jack is somebody who can talk his way into any room on the planet, so what happens when a man like this takes a deep dive into complexity science and decides to tackle global power systems in non-linear ways?

Activity: In groups of 5 map your own “stack”. Go back as far as you can. Provide Nation stack as example on the screen- follow these prompts or add you own.