Systems view of life š
āWhen a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher orderā
ā Ilya Prigogine
ā Ilya Prigogine
Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
Balance being on the Balcony (seeing the system out there) and the Dancefloor (being the system)
We call it āCake Rocket Childā because the original version, which the below is adapted from, compared the characteristics of three different types of problems (simple, complicated, and complex) with three examples:
baking a cake (simple problem)
sending a rocket to the moon (complicated problem)
raising a child (complex problem)
The Spheres of Systems Change model illustrates different dimensions of change within a system (the spheres) and how changes dynamically interact across those dimensions. It encourages you to be aware of cause and effect relationships within and between each of the spheres, responding and adapting to those changes as you move through them.
X-Curve. Transition model
the truths of postmodernism include constructivism (the world is not just a perception but an interpretation); contextualism (all truths are context-dependent, and contexts are boundless); and integral-aperspectivism (no context is finally privileged, so an integral view should include multiple perspectives; pluralism; multi-culturalism).