ABSTRACT
Stakeholders who manage multi-stakeholder collaborations in a spirit of leading transformative change collectively create the best possible conditions for transformative change to happen. Yet, difficulties will inevitably occur, because complex change processes for SDG implementation cannot be controlled; they can be stewarded in the sense that stakeholders learn to understand which conditions enhance the aliveness of collaboration ecosystems. This, what is in this chapter explored as systems aliveness, refers to the ability of collaborating stakeholders to stay in constructive interaction patterns and move in the desired direction together. The Collective Leadership Compass as a navigating tool and the Dialogic Change Model as a process methodology enhance the capacity of actors to diagnose and improve such interaction patterns collaborative change. This chapter elaborates in more detail how the achievement of results is linked to the capacity of people for dialogue. It supports the various levels of skills building in stewarding collaborations between multiple stakeholders with concrete tools and examples. With focus on the role of dialogic process facilitators as stewards of collaboration ecosystems it shows how specific facilitation approaches enhance the six dimensions of the Compass and make the crucial steps of the Dialogic Change Model work
