{"title":"Adaptive Humanism","authors":"Francisco Miraval, Herlinda Quintana","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i2.6565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i2.6565","url":null,"abstract":"We believe that while humanity is experiencing a time of transition and transformation, it is “stuck” within limiting narratives. Those narratives prevent individuals and societies from exploring new options and from acting upon those alternatives; that is, from co-creating a future. We propose the concept of Adaptive Humanism, a process of moving from limiting to quantum narratives: a process of conscious (that is, self-aware) and continuous adaptation to a new situation, as well as critical examination of both challenges and opportunities offered by that new environment. We present real-life examples, compiled during interviews conducted by the authors, of limiting narratives, as well as a brief exploration of limiting narratives from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Further, we propose that the theoretical framework and practices of Theory U create a non-judgmental open space to get “unstuck” and to move from limiting to quantum narratives, meaning self-correcting narratives oriented to and emerging from the future.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139205806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Pomeroy, Dayani Centeno, Carolina Da Rosa, Viviana Galdames, Laura Pastorini, Janine Saponara, Mariana Suniata-Miranda
{"title":"Ecosystem Activation in Latin America","authors":"E. Pomeroy, Dayani Centeno, Carolina Da Rosa, Viviana Galdames, Laura Pastorini, Janine Saponara, Mariana Suniata-Miranda","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i2.6951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i2.6951","url":null,"abstract":"In March 2023, one hundred and sixty leaders and change-makers from fourteen countries across Latin America participated in a four-day gathering held by the Presencing Institute called the Ecosystem Leadership Program (ELP) in Latin America. A system of scholarship and support was created to ensure the event was inclusive and representative of the region’s diversity. The program is striking as an example of grassroots action taking place at scale. In this dialogue, six members of the holding team engage in a facilitated conversation about what it takes to weave together multiple dimensions of diversity and push the boundaries of inclusion.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139207437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanded Perspectives on Social Transformation in Brazil","authors":"Michelle Sampaio","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6302","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000This commentary presents a broader perspective on the paper Psychopolitical foresensing for social transformation (PFST): theoretical reflections for action research in Brazil towards the SDGs. It is generally accepted that the current path of capitalism is accelerating the planetary climate crisis and social inequality and is bringing an individual and collective feeling of frustration.Cimini and Homem’s brings in their paper a proposal in tackle this frustration feeling through advancing the theory of change (ToC) concept by creating a framework for an action research project based on awareness-based systems change (ABSC). I highlight three relevant contexts to Brazil to be considered in their action research project: i. Decolonization and good living: concepts in Brazil’s current transformation mindset; ii. Nature-based solutions: the value of socio-biocultural diversity in Brazil; and iii. Practical experience on building a participatory ToC for the Amazon. Cimini and Homem’s proposed journey on PFST aiming to expand on ToCs approach by adding ABSC methodologies using presence-sense-reconnection, seems to be a path to integrate inner and out change with social and cultural transformation. They have a great opportunity, combined with a challenge, to plant a seed in leaders and changemakers in expanding their views of how impact can be generated. They can be bold in the PFST journey by enhancing awareness and actions, going beyond the SDGs, and bringing light to Brazil’s position as a global leader in nature-based solutions to face climate change.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129979256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relational Design","authors":"V. Udoewa, Savannah Gress","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5193","url":null,"abstract":"Participatory design occurs when professional designers do design work with the community members who will use the design. Traditional (colonial) participatory design leaves the choice of methodology in the hands of the professional designer, the leader or facilitator, who often chooses extractivist methods and methodologies, contradicting the very relationality, equity, and participation intended through participatory design. Using such methods in participatory design creates situations in which participating community members conduct extractivist, transactional methods against their own communities. In contrast, Radical Participatory Design decolonizes participatory processes as communities not only equally participate, but also equitably lead the design process, naturally leading to asset-based methodologies. Though Radical Participatory Design is a type of relational design because the design process is done relationally elevating relational knowledge and expertise, we go further to describe an explicit Relational Design.\u0000What would a design process look like if we not only conduct it participatorily, but also replace extractivist, transactional activities with relational ones? Because design involves the production and solicitation of knowledge, we rearticulate knowledge as the presence of healthy relationships. With that understanding we describe Relational Design. We discuss the connection between systems and relationships and why Relational Design is important for positive systems change and impact. We then describe one possible and specific relational methodology that we have used in the space of educational systems: the sustained dialogue framework. Using this framework, we discuss how each phase of a generic design process changes when using a relational methodology like sustained dialogue. As the health of relationships in a system increases, the need or usefulness of positivist methods based on third-person knowing decreases.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127869137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vitality Triangle","authors":"Elizabeth Walsh, J. Abell","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6031","url":null,"abstract":"How can we navigate complex power dynamics in our every-day interactions, while sourcing our collective powers for a just transition to equitable, regenerative economies where we all get to be alive, well, and free? How can we disrupt the politics of trauma and cultivate a politics of flourishing? This article explores how an inner-compass, the “Vitality Triangle,” can help us meet these challenges by living our questions while embodying, embedding, and emplacing three principles of regenerative vitality in living systems: liberty, reciprocity, and integrity.\u0000The Vitality Triangle is not a new theory; it is a heuristic diagram informed by diverse lineages of thought and action that can help us cultivate ecosystem awareness as we navigate from the life-threatening conditions characterizing our current geological epoch to geographies of radical resilience.\u0000The article brings attention to academic and paradigmatic assumptions regarding ontology, sovereignty/power, epistemology, and cartography that have contributed to a downward spiral of degenerative socio-ecological relationships, as depicted by the “Precarity Triangle.” The Vitality Triangle supports shifts in consciousness conducive to an upward spiral of regenerative relationships in dynamic, co-evolving living systems. The Vitality Triangle builds upon and complements Theory U as an awareness-based approach to systems change. It shares core ontological assumptions with Theory U, including an understanding that form follows consciousness, and therefore, shifting from ego-system to ecosystem awareness represents a powerful leverage point for systems change, regenerating vitality across scales in nested living systems – from bodies and the body politic, to the ecosystems of which we are part.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130548905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Seneque, Martin Kalungu-Banda, Aggie Kalungu-Banda, Sharon A. Munyaka
{"title":"Ubuntu","authors":"M. Seneque, Martin Kalungu-Banda, Aggie Kalungu-Banda, Sharon A. Munyaka","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6201","url":null,"abstract":"The In Dialogue piece in this issue, brings together Megan Seneque Aggie Kalungu-Banda, Martin Kalungu-Banda and Sharon Munyaka, to explore how different knowledge systems, including science, can be brought into conversation in an effort to democratize knowledge and support transformative societal change. The vehicle for this exploration is the philosophy and practice of Ubuntu, and how this is being brought to life across the African continent in the context of the Ubuntu.Lab and the Ubuntu Institute. The conversants delve into what it might mean, and what it looks like in practice, to have a distinct (African) identity that lies within the context of local cultural and spiritual traditions and indigenous knowledges, while also actively participating in and contributing to the global community and movement of the Presencing Institute. This exploration reveals both the complexities and the generative potential of weaving different wisdom traditions and knowledge systems, in the interests of creating a future for the continent from which the rest of the world might learn.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130255618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conscious Systemic Leadership","authors":"R. Chowdhury","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5416","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Conscious systemic leadership (CSL) is a theoretical construct that draws from Shiva consciousness. Through major parts of history, theories and narratives have taken an individualistic approach to leadership focusing on the person as a leader. However, systemic leadership (SL) is an emergent phenomenon that draws on synergies and concerted efforts of several people and institutions operating across several places and levels to create a more purposeful and meaningful existence for us. If SL is about shifting the focus from the self to the wider scheme of existence, a consciousness-based approach is necessary. A consciousness-based approach enables us to undergo a mind-shift from the individual to the collective, from short-term to long-term, from rigidity to fluidity, from holding-on to letting-go, and from results-focus to learning-orientation. The philosophy of Shiva is drawn on to understand that consciousness is the substratum of reality, an insight used to build the theoretical construct of CSL. In Shiva consciousness, reality is embodied in our experience of the world through a transcendental and eternal process of fusion and dance of energies between the opposing archetypes of the purusha and prakriti; pure consciousness and the creative force, respectively. Everywhere, in each minute attribute of reality, a “self” is present, which is the universal consciousness of Shiva. CSL demands a set of new thinking and practices to bring this concept to life. With the integration of consciousness, CSL makes a new addition to the field of SL as the first attempt in the literature to draw on perspectives from Hindu philosophy, more specifically the Shiva philosophy.\u0000","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133663315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychopolitical Foresensing for Social Transformation (PFST):","authors":"Fernanda Cimini Salles, Maria Lucia Homem","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5876","url":null,"abstract":"Our goal is to develop a theory of change (ToC) that takes into account processes of psychopolitical wellbeing in order to raise the effectiveness of social transformation. Based on awareness-based system change (ABSC) theories, our model proposes the interconnection between individual and collective wellbeing starting with a cascading effect that occurs when high leaders from profit, nonprofit and government organizations are willing to apply their financial, political and social resources to commit to real change in the direction of SDG and ESG goals. The essay is structured as follows: first, we advance existing approaches of theories of change by introducing ASBC. Second, we propose psychopolitical wellbeing as an approach for bringing social and cultural transformation at scale. Finally, we present the initial parameters of our action research with Brazilian leaders.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115306665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subtractive Awareness","authors":"Hilary M. Bradbury","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.5737","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper is foremost about experiments in embodying a transformative narrative of a self that makes possible mutual collaborative practice with others. The focus is less on what we ought to think or do, but rather on subtracting, letting go, self-identities that are no longer fit for collaborative purpose. We refer to this as subtractive awareness by which we mean becoming aware of obstacles that inhibit creative action with others. In a time when dominant narratives call for endless growth, accumulation and addition, there is perhaps an overlooked value in subtraction practiced in support of collaboration. We align with writers such as Jason Hickel (2020), and practitioners in the degrowth movement to argue that in an era of perpetual expansion, “less is more.”\u0000","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125400960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memory of Ed Schein:","authors":"Otto Scharmer","doi":"10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i1.6272","url":null,"abstract":"Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellow professor of management emeritus at MIT, passed away on January 26, 2023, at the age of 94. Ed had an enormous impact on organizational development (OD), on Theory U, and on my life. Schein wrote dozens of books on social science subjects, including career dynamics, organizational culture, leadership, process consulting, and group dynamics. He is one of the most important founding fathers of organizational development (OD). Ed’s insights on how to engage in any kind of helping relationship made him my most important teacher in terms of how to advise clients and engage with stakeholder groups on how to approach challenges facing their organizations and communities. He is not only a founding father of OD but also of Theory U and we can see the Schein influence on at least three levels: addressing the invisible as well as the visible (the iceberg model of systems thinking), emphasizing psychological safety in the change process and ‘always being helpful’ in the context of organizational change, consulting, and leadership. In this piece I outline the most important principles Ed embodied in his work that have shaped my own. The piece ends with a call for collective action on addressing the challenges facing our planet in Ed’s own words.","PeriodicalId":243406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127033104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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