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Can we integrate Systems Thinking for social transformation?

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 …

Strategic synergy between individual and collective

I just got off a conference call workshop in which the facilitator repeatedly maintained that “it all starts with the individual”, in the sense that an individual has to do their own developmental and “get your life together” work in order to be i…

An Evolutionary Spiritual Activist Perspective

The blog entry below is a specific application of the principle of using crises to facilitate the life-affirming evolution of civilization. This perspective is part of a larger spiritual activist narrative described in another piece I sent to my l…

Fixing financial systems and transforming economic systems

A month ago a colleague sent me the New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07cohanWEB.html “The Economy Is Still at the Brink” by Sandy B. Lewis and William D. Cohan with a note saying it was one of the best articles he h…