Jeremy Lent – Systems Thinking, part 2 (Deep Transformation podcast) – Alan’s notes
Principles of (self)governing the commons (Elinor Ostrom and David Sloan Wilson)
Rojava, Democractic confederalism (bottom up), Kurdistan Workers Party, northern Syria
Sandra Waddock’s notion of a “transformation catalyst”
Phase transition step ups in collaboration make significant changes
Importance of moving away from attachment to outcomes, and beyond either/or binaries
Value of embodied and intuitive (not just conceptual) intelligence
Connecting with people’s hearts, and evolutionary need for love and community – this is what can really help, rather than trying to get people to adopt different worldviews or to understand systems thinking
Sparking a desire for a life-affirming future – enabling people to let their heart’s be stirred
[Morphogenetic fields and resonance (Rupert Sheldrake) as strange attractors]
Li is a neo-confucian concept. Chi is matter and energy. Li is organizing principles that shape how that matter and energy is connected.
