The Shift: System Stabilizers: Islands of Coherence in a Turbulent World - What Holds When Everything Else Breaks?
In a world far from equilibrium, systems driven solely by growth tend toward collapse. Drawing on the insights of Gregory Bateson, Donella Meadows, and Humberto Maturana, this presentation explores how systems can regain stability through balancing feedback loops, the often-overlooked forces that restore coherence.
We will examine how meaningful change arises not only from new strategies or technologies, but from reconnecting lost information, rebuilding relationships, and reinforcing reciprocity. We will also reflect on why change so easily disappears, and how it can be sustained by embedding it in durable patterns, narratives, and culture.
Through practical examples, conversation and interactive exercises, we explore how to recognize and connect “islands of coherence,” and how these small practices are already shaping a larger living pattern.
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EVENT The SHIFT
From Intention to Impact
42 Changemakers join forces to Shape the Systems that Shape us. They share their individual stories and unveil a new system-shifting methodology — Can real-world microshifts unlock macro-level change?
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