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The World is Very Confusing Place…
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The (really) big picture
External world changes
Internal world must catch up
Alignment Dislocated
Zinn
Join all the dotsFour linesNo lifting pencilNo retracing steps
Ways to Respond
Retreat to inside the box
Descent into chaos
Emergent new consciousness?
Control
HomogenisationAbstraction
FragmentationAlienation
Participation
Diversity
Inclusion
Fear
Love
Disappointmentand fear
Hopeand play
Participation
Giving & Receiving
ExplorationImaginationParticipationQualitative
Control
Production & Consumption
DataPredictionQuantative
New Insights and Images
Multiple Images
Of the World
Action and
ResultsCreative
Endeavour
Determ
ine
Society’sLoop
Interpretationof Results
IFFLoop
Current Image of
the World
What Kind of PolicyInnovation?
Innovation here?
Innovation here?
Exploit
Explore
Impact/Results
Concepts/Knowledge
Problem –Action
Research –Options
What works?
A Policy CycleStart here
Exploit
Explore
Impact/Results
Concepts/Knowledge
Problem –Action
Research –Options
What works?
An Extended Policy Cycle
How are we thinking
about this?
Start here
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 SchaarScience 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?