What is change? (Part 2: Well-being, well-doing, and integrity)
Think of change more like a stew. It requires many different ingredients interacting with and blending together to bring out the right taste and texture.
Genius
Genius is within us all, a core element of each human and even humanity itself. Genius is not what separates exceptional individuals from the rest. Genius is the capacity that unites us.
What is change? (Part 1: Impermanence, emergence, and growth)
Change agents seek to bring about profound transformation within themselves, others, human systems, and humanity itself. We seek to catalyze the emergence of new, wiser, more conscious ways of being, thinking, and doing.
Creativity
Unlike any other creature known to us, we are architects, artists, inventors, poets, visionaries.
Change agent archetypes
Change is an ecosystem that relies on many disparate, often contrasting or even competing, actors each doing what they do best, each being who they really are, each balancing and complementing the other.
Meaning
Nearly every human today yearns for Meaning in their life. We are constantly either searching for or protecting some sense of significance to our existence.
Water to a fish
Since those first days on the savannas, abstractions have become so pervasive and fundamental to the human experience that they might appear as water does to a fish.
What is a change agent (or changemaker, change leader, etc.)?
To become a change agent is to discover and unleash your own unique gifts and role in service to the greater good.
Abstractions
With abstract thinking, we create and consider things that exist outside of our senses – ideas like “justice” or “happiness” or the color “purple.”
Signs and symbols
Symbolic thinking is the ability to create and use symbols that represent real-life concepts. We draw a stick figure to represent a human. We draw a map in the dirt to represent the terrain. As children, we use a stick to “make believe” a sword.