What is the impact of Niklas Luhmann in this work?
I read Luhmann's Ecological Communication following my inquiry on the importance of building trust for a sustainable society . Searching the Web I had the impression that his work would rely on applying the biological concept of autopoiesis to ...
Why do we love to predict as a society?
Society Loves to Predict, but it is All Invented It is very easy to get caught in the idea that society can predict things that will happen. Stories we tell in our society serve as a predictive tool, a meaningful construct for our minds. Predictio...
What is the connection between Diversity and a more Resilient Society?
Society can become more resilient from environmental changes if its elements can respond better to its perturbations. The ability to listen to those changes increase if there is a more diverse group of listeners and more active subsystems in socie...
What is exercise Leadership in Group Relations?
Back in April I had the chance to attend the most known conference on group relations - it was a 2-week residential training hosted by the Tavistock Institute and this week they released the brochure for the Leicester Brochure 2013 [pdf] . The te...
Why there is NO changing society after all?
We can only reflect and act on communications that are already part of our system. It’s important to reflect on how dis-empowering that is. There is absolutely nothing I can do to change a system I’m already part of. Period. As I’ve been exploring...
How do we Change our Social Systems?
How do we change our Systems? Explorations went around both changes perceived to come from outside and inside the systems we are in. We have heard stories about changes in the system coming from stronger environmental changes or constraints that i...
Why Use a Conversational Focus for Change?
Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction. - Bakhtin Our capacity to produce alone or even to accumulat...
What is the connection between Authority, Power and Experience?
When we have authority on a topic, we have more power to influence and act in the context were it applies. I've learned that authority is not related to "being an author", but rather with growing, making it grown. And also that 'to have power' or ...