Intentional Society: A koan on change
We wish to grow into our biggest selves of love and joy and peace and power. We wish to bring about a safe and thriving future for humanity. The place to begin either and both is neither.
Please accept the explanatory words which follow as my meager gift offering towards you today. Picture these ordered lists as arrows travelling around a triangle of I, us, and all.
There's a way in which change starts in self-relationship and flows outward:
- changing our relationship to ourselves
- unlocks deeper relating with others, which
- enables coordination on our collective relationship to the whole system
There's a way in which change comes from systemic structure and flows in the other direction:
- changing the system frame around us
- enables different relationships with others, which
- shifts our relationship to ourselves
The system we can design around ourselves could be called our Intentional Society. The whole system is human society.
Our indirect but most effective entry point is to start by changing our relating:
- intentional reflective relationships with others both
- help us grow our selves, and
- let us shift the system together
Why??? Well... something something flow and ZPD and divided layered brain and HSD complexity etc. Relationship engages our bigger selves. Complexity begets capacity. Smaller systems affect bigger systems. But don't focus on the finger, look to the moon. We can subtly surf the paradoxical entanglement of self, other, and system to expand all three, if we don't get trapped by our egos.
Can you feel the pull of the heavenly beauty above? One first step is to learn more Saturday June 12th, 11:00-11:55am Pacific Daylight Time (2pm Eastern, 6pm UTC)