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Bearers of Worlds
The conversation for societal change is the one were worlds meet and re-discover. For those, we don’t teach because people already know, we don’t institutionalise because people are the bearers of worlds, not organisations….
The Stories We Tell
There are also times were a collective point of view ceases to be at service to our society and becomes the opposite, something that locks us in a restricted view….
Bummer, We Can’t Change Society After All
We can only reflect and act on communications that are already part of our system. It’s important to reflect on how dis-empowering…
Social Systems and System Complexity
Social systems hold a paradox — it contains a structure in form of meaning patterns so complexity can be reduced and allow a more reasonable predicability in social interaction. On the other hand, the selection of structures makes the description and re-creation of meaning a more complex task….
Language and System Complexity
Reading about language, dialogue and complex systems used to be paralell readings with some things in common. Today, language and complexity seem…
The Perception of Leadership on Group Relations
Listen to what is happening to you and to others and take action at the time that appears appropriate. If the listening is accurate and the time is precise, it is your action that will inspire the action of others….
On Diversity, Resilience and the Growth of Anxiety
Society can become more resilient from environmental changes if its elements can respond better to its perturbations. The ability to listen to…
Coalitions and Change in our Systems
We also explored the role of listening with attention from within so we can identify the cracks in the system that might lead to change. The cracks would be the people and places where we invest our energy….
More Poetic Communications
In this type of systems, not knowing is the rule. Instead of applying known models and repetitions, the work is to listen for the way things connect differently and name it. Poetic communications is used here in the sense of using language to author the world, of “innovating” by naming the unknown….
Poetic Communications
Poetic communications are not part of the subsystems of society. They do not solve business problems or issues of law; they do not grant you a diploma either. Although they are still bound by the way we communicate, they hold less constraints in the directions they can unfold….