What stimulates change?
Buckminster Fuller says, you don't change things by fi ghting the existing reality, you build something new that makes the existing model obsolete
Samantha Power • The Great Simplification
Transformation can be defined as significant changes in form, structure, or meaning-making. It can also be described as a much deeper process, including “the unleashing of human potential to commit, care, and affect change for a better life.”16
Karen O'Brien • You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World
“Transform yourself to transform the world
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
How do systems change? How can we move towards the just communities we need and want?
The natural process of ecological replacement highlights two mechanisms at work in replacing a dominant the landscape and seems too big to change.
Succession relies in part on incremental change, the slow, steady replacement of that which does not serve ecological f
... See moreIn these urgent times, we need to become the storm that topples the senescent, destructive economies so the new can emerge.
The gap edges, or ecotones, where two ecosystems, the new and the old, meet, are among the most diverse and productive of ecosystems, full of berries and birds.
Robin Wall Kimmerer, the Serviceberry
How is the knowledge that is needed to help keep a thread alive, as this world comes to an end and a new one comes into being—how is that going to stay alive? It’s going to be through what is held within the human being and community. Human beings in relationship with other human beings
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
A Manifesto for Applying Behavioral Science
A manifesto proposing ten actionable strategies for evolving applied behavioral science to address complex societal issues, enhance organizational integration, and encourage ethical practices within the field.
bi.team
More generally, behavioural scientists should move away from thinking about standalone interventions when dealing with complex systems.
A better perspective is to see the overall impact of collections of policies, not just the specific indicators that have been preselected. That points towards system stewardship as a goal, where behavioural scienti... See more
A better perspective is to see the overall impact of collections of policies, not just the specific indicators that have been preselected. That points towards system stewardship as a goal, where behavioural scienti... See more
Just a moment...
Layering, and having a goal of system stewardship