Annex 5.1
DAF Effect Data Indicators

This annex displays the list of effect data indicators (or questions used to monitor these indicators, especially during interviews) that I have derived iteratively from research conversations and surveys disseminated in DAF. They are presented here, classified by social learning cycle (see Annex 3.3 for more details).

IMMEDIATE

• Changes in ways of interacting with people within or outside DAF
• Time spent per day or week on DAF platform
• Sense of trust and belonging
• Quality of facilitation and safety of DAF spaces
• Possibility to be open and vulnerable in DAF spaces
• Feeling stimulated and energised
• Former volunteers or participants: statements made on leaving the social learning space or decreasing their engagement

POTENTIAL

• Changes in ways of interacting with people within or outside DAF
• Changes in ways of relating with people with non-DA mindsets
• New friendships and connections
• Finding new useful resources
• Community responses to media attention, criticisms of DA, etc.
• Learning about racism, colonialism, etc.
• More openness to others’ perspectives and life experiences
• Deeper or more critical self-understanding
• Fruitful collaborations and mentoring
• Losing social connections due to DA involvement
• New self-awareness
• New self-organising skills
• More self-confidence

APPLIED

• Improved ability to voice one’s disagreement with status quo
• Changes in one’s professional practice
• Speaking confidently about DA and collapse
• Learning by creating artefacts or other resources
• Putting new learning into action via team collaboration
• Changes in dealing with one’s emotions
• Experimenting with new practices
• Sharing information and practices outside DAF
• Starting new projects or circles

REALISED

• Changes in personal circles with regards to DA/collapse
• Changes in professional practice (own and others’)
• Introducing more people to the forum
• Sharing information about DA/DAF publicly
• Feeling better able to share one’s feelings openly
• Feeling better able to integrate and transform one’s feelings

ENABLING

• Receiving help or mentoring from other DAF participants
• Lack of support or disagreements with network leadership
• Useful rules and agreements in DAF groups
• Helpful or unhelpful technology
• Being helped to find one’s way within or outside DAF
• Finding support from a small group or community of practice

STRATEGIC

• Finding that one’s contributions are valued or understood
• Understanding the wider ecosystem and its stakeholders

ORIENTING

• Experiencing other (non-DA) collapse spaces
• Understanding how and where one fits within DAF
• Making connections with other movements (e.g. Transition Towns)
• Using guides and other resources to find one’s way

TRANSFORMATIVE

• Relating to self, others, or the universe in very new ways
• New awareness of one’s place within the planetary metabolism