Key points highlighted by Kurt Laitner

The multiplicity of partial worldviews, and the potential competition between them hinder relational dynamics, and make coordination on inferences, observations and actions rather difficult, although coordination is critically called for.

The PLAST will provide the components and the methodology for change agents to become more aware of the dynamics they would like to influence, helping them identify the common logics that underlie their action and enhance mutual understanding and coherence as a whole.

The PLAST as systemic interpretation language is a tool to help them recognize, interpret, express and assess both the old patterns they wish to move away from and the new ones they would wish to adopt as part of a peer learning process.


how can the reality or the possibility of the elephant be brought into each part, so that it is the elephant that materializes as a whole when all piece are described, and not a set of unrelated parts?

such driver may be found in the very existence and generative nature of what brings change agents and communities of practice together.


distributed commons as archetype,

vast and complicated set of arrangements and actions wherein self-directed agents adapt to each other’s arrangements and actions,

It helps probe and understand the impacts of decisions and how systems dynamics affect local functional systems and the system as a whole, providing means for meaning making across silos, clusters of action, centers of transformation.

This shifts the subject from the construction of consensual shared visions, to the observed but undefined workings of nature, so that people with different views can agree on collaboratively re-constructing reality (in the sense of reconstituting its inner workings), rather than constructing it as an abstraction.

discover new possibilities of solutions and possible partners, in automated as well as conscious ways.

Key points highlighted by Simone Cicero:

About change of paradigm / Change of consciousness, and how 'radical one must be':

" It's a micro bootstrapping thing where the most radical in the adjacent possible needs to be leveraged... and then all the boats rise to another level..."