Cultivating emergence: introduction

Generating Transformative Change is coming to Europe! I’m stoked!!

And we have an introductory online experience too, Cultivating Emergence. It is stand-alone. Come along in late Feb and March 2023.

Upshift: recalibrating,(re)connecting, transitioning

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Marilyn Hamilton writes about our eve of reconnecting— consolidating and integrating learning, reinventing how we operate.

Insight: for change

Single, double and triple-loop learning to go deeper. This helps us to reframe and reconceptualise, to go deeper and be more effective, around the things we are working on and care about.

Love Life Aliveness

Love Life Aliveness

We know transformation emerges from new ways of thinking and being. However, the how is less clear. Three calls for this: to love, to aliveness, to life. Two practices. One love!

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Insight: for change

Insight: for change

Single, double and triple-loop learning to go deeper. This helps us to reframe and reconceptualise, to go deeper and be more effective, around the things we are working on and care about.

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About transformations

Transformations is about emerging change—our world’s destabilising as some things get exponentially worse, some exponentially better. It can’t last and futures that encompass interlinked pieces—e.g. climate emergency solutions such as women’s access to education for fairness, equity and beneficial carbon drawdown—are what we can create.

If this sounds like a new level of thinking, it is! A paradigm shift, triple-loop change and new business models.

This page started with the Transformations 2019 conference in Chile. On the last day, Friday, 18 October, Santiago exploded. What’s happening in Chile mirrors pain and trauma around the world. 

You’ll see Chile posts cover the events as well as interconnections and what we can do to help catalyse new futures, large system changes, justice and to address emergencies (including climate).

More transformation posts

Inner development: why?

Inner development: why?

We are built to grow. It is our destiny to grow.

Watch Robert Kegan and many associated with the Inner Development Goals outline why this is so important to meet today’s crises.

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Two sunsets: and an aurora

Two sunsets: and an aurora

We’re living in liminal times.

We experience this all around us—the potential to meet our challenges, to grow and evolve culturally. While, at the same time, crises push our edges ever more to extremities.

This post is a space for some grace with all that is!

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Shifting: our focus

Shifting: our focus

By shifting our focus from the ‘level of emissions’ to the ‘rate of warming’ we can have an immeasurably better path than our current climate-crisis trajectory.

By Paul Gilding, Fellow University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

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Tethers: maps and growth

Tethers: maps and growth

Humans, shift. We change to understand the world from new thinking patterns.

Understanding that we shift—and some of the ways we can ease these changes—can help us all.

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Festina Lente

Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally

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“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.

- Festina LentÍvaldi