the world is very confusing place…

The World is Very Confusing Place…

Courtesy of GBN

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?