Dance With Systems

“In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly, letting go and dancing with the system”

  • Let go of control

  • Work with the system

  • Encourage personal AND collective growth

What’s a System?

  • Elements

    Who makes up the system?

  • Interconnections

    What relationships and rules govern the system?

  • Purpose

    Why does the system exist?

Sustainability

“No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”

  • A set of tools for understanding what it takes to become a genuinely sustainable society

  • Planning for reality, not perfection

  • Examine the gap between understanding and implementation