Entertaining a Shift in the Story Field
Entertainment media like soap operas and video games are being used for social change – to shift the embedded stories of our …
The Conversion Of The American Dream
This article is about breaking out of robotic patterns of consumption to re-engage with life and the high adventure of a new economy and …
Heroic transformational energies emerging
For so many of us – perhaps most of us – a peculiar energy resides at the core of our being, an energy that does not accept the world we are given, that does not agree that what we see is all there is, that knows – as the World Social Forum procla…
Pattern Languages: Social DNA for conscious evolution of social systems
More and more I think of my transformational work as a DNA-modifying RNA molecule, tweaking the changes needed for conscious evolution. The dominant social DNA – the society-shaping designs and dynamic patterns that replicate and evolve – are all …
Transforming ourselves, transforming the world?
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…
Seeking leverage for deep transformation
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…
Social Systems and Transformational Change
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…
WikiLeaks designed to impel elite “conspiracies” into collective stupidity?
I found this absolutely fascinating, from the perspectives of collective intelligence and social evolutionary dynamics. — Tom From: Rob Lewis via Rick ingrasci: No matter what your opinion is of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, this is b…
Are we ready to change the Game yet?
Some people say Gandhi was about nonviolence. And he was. But he is significant for something else that I believe is far more important: He changed the game. With no one’s permission, he reconfigured the playing field of colonialism to a higher Ga…
Creating parallel / alternative institutions of higher education
Few existing institutions of higher education have sufficiently integral worldviews or evolutionary capacity to teach the knowledge and competencies urgently needed to co-create a sustainable civilization out of our era of rapidly emerging consequ…