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.
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.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
This moves us beyond a classical and mechanistic search for leverage points to transform systems. Instead, it suggests that we are the leverage points, and that how we show up in every moment matters.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
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.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
We need to place ourselves in the system and influence it at points where the minimal effort and resources will create the largest long term influence - the leverage points.
Donella Meadows • Leverage Points Si Guide Series
Our beliefs about the nature of reality influence our relationships, including our relationship to nature.
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
climate change is at its core