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.
They are, in effect, committed to shifting a system and creating social change not because they were forced to by a central authority or because they are being paid to but because they believe in the need to shift a system from its current state to a desired state.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
These might trigger a new sense of agency, finding a balance between “doing and not-doing” (Damhof, 2021) through grasping emergence as it happens and taking advantage of changes in the conditions of change (Miller, 2015a).
Jitske Gulmans • Imagining the Impossible: An Act of Radical Hope
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
From the perspective of entanglement, when a [whole/part] of the system changes, the system itself has changed.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
In this article, Wheatley and Frieze suggest that change emerges in human systems out of a spontaneous series of local actions, and these local actions spontaneously link together both organically and purposefully in ways that facilitate the development of integrated networks of relationships that are aligned in the pursuit of mutual interests and ... See more
Two Loop Theory
One of our key roles, as social movements, must be to harness the shocks and direct the slides—all towards achieving the systemic, cultural and psychic shifts we need to navigate the changes with the greatest equity, resilience and ecological restoration possible.