Agency, which can be thought of as conscious actions, intervenes in systems by disrupting or transforming patterns and relationships.
Agency, which can be thought of as conscious actions, intervenes in systems by disrupting or transforming patterns and relationships.
You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
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We are all entangled in systems that both ensure our survival and destruction. The responsibilities that we place on institutions, such as big oil, big banks, big pharma, etc., does not lie within these institutions but within the linkings between them. "An institution is made of people, each with their own biographies, and it exists within communi... See more
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The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
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How we relate to ourselves, each other, the environment, and the future creates patterns that tend to repeat themselves in a systematic manner, shaping both social and material structures and enabling or constraining the kinds of change we are able to achieve.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
individual change is collective change; we are inherently entangled through shared language, meaning, and values.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
Agency exists as a way of life, a reiterative activity of opening or foreclosing different possibilities of materialization of matter, not as a relation of push and pull aimed at imposing force on a mass. We are entangled with, constituted and transformed by the very processes we aim to transform.