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Our Theory of Change
When a society just becomes technologically too complex for its current meaning-making capacity, the social system faces a bifurcation point at which it either breaks down into chaos or manages a transition into a more complex, emergent new way of self-organising. — Tomas Björkman
How can a society secure its path to such a humongous transition, such a profound change that Björkman refers to?
Classic “theory of change” models, with their beginning and end states, are inadequate when change is continuous and about liberating the life-affirming flows held hostage by outdated socio-economic and cognitive structures. For that, we need a change theory that can account for the complexity of the interdependence in the fractal-like, embedded levels of change and can apply feedback loops linking them. It will also have to support mutual learning across those levels and strengthen the capabilities needed to facilitate enlivenment at all scales.
“If we can grasp enlivenment as a vision, we can begin to train ourselves to see differently and approach political struggles and policy with a new perspective,” says Andreas Weber, a German philosopher and biologist, author of Enlivenment: Towards a Fundamental Shift in the Concepts of Nature, Culture, and Politics.
That new perspective is at the heart of our Enlivenment Theory of Change. It means, for example, that seen through the enlivenment lens, the economy, education, and other social institutions are complex adaptive systems that can be (re-)oriented for making us and our communities feel more alive, creative, and flourishing.
Our Organization
Future HOW is a collaborative research facility and network of people passionate about action research for regenerating social systems, using our homegrown Generative Action Research methodology framework.
We are a social enterprise, incorporated as a Community Interest Company in the UK.
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Spirals of desire for a better life expand outwards and upwards. People around the world dream and work for a better future (and fear a worse).
Slowly, they become visible to each other and their collective inspiration spreads outward. The spirals touch, becoming new social movements and ecosystems. Each path energizes the other, rolling together toward humankind’s Phase Shift into a wiser and flourishing society that works for all …