What stimulates change?
I had this hunch that the way we change is through relationships where we feel safe, and that we can only learn anything new because someone we trust is teaching it to us.
Then this friend of mine, Sarah Stein Lubrano, wrote this book called Don’t Talk About Politics, and what she concluded is the only way anyone changes their minds is through their
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Systems-emergence solutions are nonlinear and decentralized; change requires finding places to experiment within subsystems to shake them up and cause ripple effects (Boulton et al., 2015). Systems-emergence work does not attempt to describe the characteristics of a healthy system, but it often does describe the outcomes the system should be able... See more
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Systems emergence
an invitation to step more and more into experience. We cannot change the world through a mental construct. We cannot change the world through words alone
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
In 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
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
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... 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... See more
Just a moment...
Layering, and having a goal of system stewardship
Changemaker funds
mail.google.comthe human heart—and the process of the human heart returning—not a human heart who understands everything and holds all the seeds of wisdom for the new world and the new era inside of it. No, that’s arrogance. But a human heart who is learning again how to be. Because we as individuals, we as human hearts, we as spiritual hearts, we can be like... See more
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
With the systems-emergence model, a general operating grant might be tied to a partner who shares an interest in systemic change, is values-and vision-aligned, and is working in adaptive ways.