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.
"Reality is far more fluid, interconnected, and responsive to intention than we might have previously imagined."
allowing the frame of organisation as hero to take hold (or servant, which can in practice be much the same) compounds the reduction in agency already inflicted by conditions like Parkinson’s
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
we need a sustained ethical reflection on the scope, nature, and limits of our engagement with the possible and the consequences this engagement has for ourselves, for others, for society, and for the planet. Being in the position to envision a course of action and its alternatives and to evaluate which possibilities should be acted upon and which
... See moreVlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
Healthy interventions can only be made by free agents within a complex system—agents referred to in chaos theory as “strange attractors.” Could you be a strange attractor within your institution?
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The Systems Work of Social Change: How to Harness Connection, Context, and Power to Cultivate Deep and Enduring Change
amazon.com