| Unleashing Human Agency Issue1 #133310 Many are calling for change but don't know where, how to start. People need to be able to access and understand possibilities, be inspired enough to intent action, feel empowered enough to carry it out, and enabled enough to be the change they want to see, individually and collectively... |
We are sensing the emergence of a greater WE. --> elaborate
Transformation needs triggers at several levels with some form of scaffolding... one level leading to and reinforcing the other.
- Inspire - First is the realization that something needs to be done. This realization -call it also awareness or consciousness- is spreading, can be inspired further to reach critical mass but is not enough to lead to actual transformation.
- Empower - Second is the formation of an intention. Transformation needs a conviction that something can be done, and that each of us can have an impact. It needs some resolve. This is unleashing and channeling human agency, the willpower to go one step further, with more or less involvement. But here again, intention alone does not lead anywhere.
- Enable - Last and critical to the outcome is the partaking in the transformation, by being or doing. That's the ultimate trigger, making the first steps, starting the transformation, entering a transition stage. And this needs to be enabled.
This constitutes a three step process of transition: inspiring, empowering and enabling change, transformation, metamorphosis, evolution, however you may call it, the seeding at the various stages of a fruition process, that can be undertaken from the specific place each of us or our organizations and communities hold in the greater whole, with an awareness of our location and role and impact within this whole and beyond.
Configuring oneself for transformation
Our system of systems is made of parts that we could consider as coexisting in a milieu, an environment that is not just a container with properties greater than the sum of the parts, but that has a substance, a density, a richness. Something exists "in between" the parts, from which the parts get some "nutrients". Many metaphors can be used, call it a field of possibilities and potentiality, intersubjective space, a collection of intangibles that would precipitate serendipity, attraction, connection, exchange, osmosis… and finally lead to a metamorphosis.
The Living We would strive to increase the richness of this field, this "in between" that would inspire, empower and enable people and organizations to "configure themselves" for transformation. Think of an operating ecosystem and API that would help form and channel realization, intentions, possibilities and transform them into outcomes and achievements by bootstrapping human agency and collective capability one step at the time in an exploratory and visible learning process. |
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