The World is Very Confusing Place Courtesy of
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The World is Very Confusing Place… Courtesy of GBN
The (really) big picture
External world changes Alignment Dislocated Internal world must catch up
Join all the dots Four lines No lifting pencil No retracing steps Zinn
Ways to Respond
Retreat to inside the box
Descent into chaos
Emergent new consciousness?
Control Production & Consumption Data Prediction Quantative Fear Fragmentation Alienation Homogenisation Abstraction Hope and play Disappointment and fear Participation Giving & Receiving Exploration Imagination Participation Qualitative Participation Love Inclusion Diversity
Innovation here? What Kind of Policy Innovation? Innovation here?
A Policy Cycle Exploit Research – Options Start here Problem – Action Concepts/ Knowledge Impact/ Results What works? Explore
An Extended Policy Cycle Exploit Research – Options Start here Problem – Action Concepts/ Knowledge Impact/ Results How are we thinking about this? What works? Explore
More dots? No. of dots No of possible links No of possible patterns 4 6 64 10 45 3. 5 trillion (9 zeros) 12 64 4. 5 quadrillion (12 zeros)
Co-Creating Our Future The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination. John Schaar Science Advisor President Richard Nixon Foresight Canada
Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency • Design for transition to a new world • Try other worldviews on for size • Give up on the myth of control • Re-perceive the present • Trust subjective experience • Take the long view • Take insightful action • Recognise and support new organisational integrities • Practise social acupuncture • Sustain networks of hope
Why do we always learn about Geology the day after an earthquake Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some Key Questions • • • Assumptions about Health – Adequate? Scale - big enough – small enough governance? Enabling Conditions? How to use other ways of knowing? Leadership to release energy?
