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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….
The Stupid Company or the Myth of Collective Intelligence?
People in organisations will always learn, but the only way learning can influence structures and communications in designed systems is if we hold spaces to re-design and co-design….
On How Society Loves to Predict, but It’s All Invented
It is very easy to get caught in the idea that society can predict things that will happen. Stories we tell in…
Convergence and Contrast in Dialogue Conversations
From photography to music to dance, contrast seems to be a key component of the arts. When this was pointed out to…
Imaginal Cells | The Caterpillar’s Job to Resist the Butterfly
When I told Elisabet Sahtouris that we were having a retreat program called Butterfly Connection in her native Greece in 2009, she wrote back saying “it is interesting that your message downloaded right after I wrote two emails on butterfly metamorphosis.” Good timing!…
Building Trust for a Sustainable Society
A sustainable society relies directly on our ability to re-generate social participation and spaces to create and sustain trust within our communities. Even if natural systems are good metaphors for designed social systems, they might be misleading….
Why #Occupy? – Beyond Political Democracy and Anti-Capitalism
I am really isolated from the urban centres. All I have heard about #Occupy has been from friends and the media. I…