Much has been said about the Occupy movement’s lack of demands and vision. Some say it will have no impact unless it makes demands and organizes to make sure those demands are met. Others respond that the People should just take charge of their de…
Who participates in “whole system” conversations? Partisans, Stakeholders, Domains and Citizens by Tom Atlee Consciously convened conversations have many functions. Many seek simply to get people talking with each other. Others try to bring togeth…
A longer version of this article with more detailed guidelines and references can be found at http://co-intelligence.org/WD-WiserDecisions.html As a civilization we have tremendous collective power, but we don’t always use it wisely. We can make g…
What is the relationship between transforming ourselves and transforming the world? In my previous essay, I described seven forms of leverage for deep transformation. When I wrote it, I was thinking of social transformation. The seven forms of lev…
I have long been fascinated by efforts to clarify which approaches to change work are most needed and effective. Among my favorite models are: * Donella Meadows’ Twelve Leverage Points to Intervene in a System * Joanna Macy’s Three Dimensions of t…
Transformational change depends primarily on changing social systems. A social system — an economic or political system, for example — is how a society is organized. It is a pervasive and powerful pattern of social arrangements that shapes peopl…
I introduce the issue of compassion needing to evolve to embrace the larger causes of human suffering and degradation of nature in the short article “Does Compassion Need to Evolve” on the Co-Intelligence Institute website at http://co-intelligenc…
Steven Brant’s article “Waiting for Superman” http://huff.to/bsCO4t is ostensibly — and provocatively — about the transformation of education. It promotes “design thinking” (aka “systems thinking”), both for redesigning the educational system an…
In his closing essay for his April 2, 2010 JOURNAL, Bill Moyers references several works on inequality in America. Among these is THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY GREATER EQUALITY MAKES SOCIETIES STRONGER by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, who together h…
There are many diverse approaches to systems thinking and, among them, many systemic approaches to furthering healthy changes in society. Within this category we can include such diverse resources as (just for example): A. Donella Meadows’ Twelve …