Love, compassion and social change

Theme

Love, compassion and awareness as ways of being, and as sources of social change: the inner side of engaging with complex systems.

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★ marks pieces in Selected writing.

★ Relationships, co-learning and social change (Reflections on my October explorations) (Nov 2024). Reflections from a month of conversations, including on the compassionate, co-reflective approach to social change of the Tamkeen Community Foundation in Morocco.
Combinations: Death-star thinking, meadows, love and constraints (May 2024). Constraints, combinations and emergence, from a complexity course to Nora Bateson’s Combining and The Relationships Project.
Complex social challenges and participatory systemic practices: February-ish explorations (Mar 2024). A month of explorations, including Adam Kahane’s Power and Love and the work of Gregory and Nora Bateson.
Awareness, engagement and emergent learning questions (Apr 2023). Three rules of thumb for being in complexity: systemic awareness, resonance and creative engagement.
★ Awareness, resonance, engagement, reflection (intro) (Mar 2023). My early thinking about working in ways that reflect the living, learning and loving systems I hope to contribute to nurturing.