Facilitation
These leaders need more than tools—they need generative spaces to step back, sense what’s emerging, and connect with others doing similar work.
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine reminds us: “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
As Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine reminds us: “Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order.”
Otto Scharmer • Entering
In 2024, I witnessed in many places how creating the right holding spaces—where attention and intention align—unleashes extraordinary energy and agency
Otto Scharmer • Entering
When artful leaders have space and support to connect deeply and are challenged to strategize and work together in new ways, possibilities light up at the intersections. We create conditions for this kind of connection, challenge leaders to strategize in new ways and support the emergent ideas and collaborations that arise.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
I believe that to design for appropriate participation is ultimately to design for human and planetary health.
Daniel Christian Wahl • Emergence and Design
This is the time to creatively, thoughtfully and carefully consider how we design and foster our communities of impact. To be intentional about format, facilitation and how our gatherings can help grow each other, and inform our practices and business.
Dr. Renée Lertzman • Convenings, Cohorts + Communities: Notes on so-called "impact" gatherings
We need to make intentional spaces for people to tell, share, or co-create these stories, spaces that are well facilitated and feel safe and inviting.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion
rachdavis.notion.siteIt is best to regard emergence and design as two sides of the same coin. As participants in these systems we are all co-responsible for what properties will emerge. Both the quality of our being and what we do or don’t do affects the overall health and wellbeing of the complex dynamic systems we participate in.
Daniel Christian Wahl • Emergence and Design
Emergence
The context changes the content.