Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Planet - preview night
Please join us if you can for this special meeting of San Diego Integral featuring a special guest speaker from Europe - Dr. Robin Lincoln Wood.
Please note the change of date and time from our usual meeting.
This evening will be a preview of the the Master Class Dr. Wood is leading on Saturday, April 6th in Encinitas. There will be a $10 charge for this evening (unless you already have a ticket for the Saturday class). The $10 can be applied toward the Saturday class if you decide to go.
The Saturday Master Class Description:
To heal ourselves and heal our planet, each of us needs to become a conscious living systems designer, in our own unique way.
Why We Need A Better Model to Shift Mindsets,Cultures, Behaviours and Systems
We need to help the majority of humankind engage with the challenges and opportunities we face as a species and a biosphere. To do this we must transcend and include the many specialist languages and models we use to do the sensemaking and choicemaking we currently do.
That is the purpose and function of the conscious living systems design model- to introduce those without backgrounds in ecology, transformation, spirituality, complexity, cognitive science and sustainability, to the ways they can engage with these challenges and opportunities without becoming overwhelmed by the detail.
And for those with deep roots in one or more of these knowledge siloes, the CLSD offers a bridging function to see the bigger picture from several different perspectives at once, as a holistic system. We like talking about “holism” as a mantra, but unless you have a truly holistic model then we are not actually thinking or acting holistically.
So, take this opportunity to explore a model which actually models the full complexity of life on earth, while also highlighting practices, methods and tools which make the difference that make a difference.
Conscious living systems design arose out of a frustration with the slowness of the shift from degenerative, exclusive, soulless, monocapitalism, where only money really matters, to a regenerative, inclusive, soulful multicapitalism where people, relationships, nature and lifelong learning drive the agenda. This delay, which is having serious consequences worldwide for our species and all life on earth, is primarily due to the ineffectiveness of current models of transformation.
What is the Conscious Living Systems Design Model?
So, what is conscious living systems design? Unlike existing design approaches ranging from biomimicry through systems thinking and future-backwards, conscious living systems design focuses its lens on the predictable cycle of interactions between mindshifts, cultureshifts, capability shifts and worldshifts. The predictable tendencies in this integral change cycle apply to all living systems, from single-celled amoeba to the global web of living civilizations. They are what scientists call self-similar at all scales, or “fractal”.
With the conscious living systems design model and practices, we are able to cut through the complexity of our world to the nuggets of beautiful simplicity the other side of that complexity. Recurring patterns become obvious when we are able to distinguish between the three key zones which interact to make conscious living systems come alive and thrive: biophysical innovations that heal our ecosystems (or “Biotechno”); to innovations in the fields of bodymind and spirit that heal individuals and organizations (or “psychotechno “); and innovations in the social field that help us heal our communities, cities, nations and planet (or “sociotechno”).
To be continued in the Comments.