Global, whole-system conversations are growing and accelerating the connections between I, We and World
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Alternative Co-creators are appearing regularly in global conversations on systems change, occurring more and more frequently, with a wide variety of entry points. Our close colleague Steve Waddell, Lead Steward of the SDG Transformation Forum – itself a key global convenor of system actors – recently drew our attention to five that have been acclerating during the Covid crisis.
Humanity Rising: Growing out of Ubiquity University, HR links personal development to the skills and training we may need to become system thinkers that can impact. See more below.
Planetary Emergency Group (PEG) Growing out of the Club of Rome and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impactresearch last year. This program focuses more on IGOs, G-20, national governmental action.
ShineFest– conversations in the cultural community during Covid
Imperative21- a business-led, cross-sector coalition working to align incentives and shift culture so capitalism works for the benefit of all stakeholders. Together, and with others, they will support business and finance leaders who are ready to turn bold promises of a new corporate purpose into meaningful action.
Catalyst 2030: Featured before on the DA (ref), this is a powerful gathering of NGOs, social enterprises, intermediaries, funders and other social change innovators, collaborating in this urgent moment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This week they are offering a series of round-tables on systems change that anyone who sees themselves as actors in that sphere, will be welcome to join. Following the session on Feminine Intelligence (ref) in which AUK Co-initiator Indra Adnan explored the ‘feminisation of politics’, Elephanteer Karen Downes (ref) will be leading a round table on gender equality here.
Of all of these, Humanity Rising is probably the most ambitious and accessible for anyone who wants to participate in a global conversation on systems change.
Here founder Jim Garrison describes how the conversation, which began of May 22nd, will keep going until the Covid crisis is over.
For the first time in history, the entire world has been forced to confront the same challenge at the same time.
In every country, people are having the same feelings about their wellbeing, the same anxieties about survival, and the same questions about how they are going to rebuild beyond the pandemic. This is true whether you are an individual, a company, an organization or a country.
Everything has been disrupted and everything needs to change.
This crisis is creating an extraordinary opportunity to build a world that is more resilient to future crises and more aligned with human and ecological renewal.
Humanity Rising represents a movement of people and organizations coming together to take counsel on how to leverage the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity for human renewal and increased resilience to future challenges.
The goal of the Summit is to create an international coalition strong enough to transform conversations that matter into actions that make a difference.
Please join us as we come together to chart our course to new specifications, navigate with sustainable coordinates, and embrace new models that take the wellbeing of our planetary ecology and all communities into account.
The Summit will continue for as long as the pandemic lasts. This is important because world events are changing every day and it is imperative that we interact with events as they unfold. The world will shapeshift many times over the next months. We must be in a position to continue to adapt and evolve as the global situation does.
The essential imperative is that we all come together in dialogue and action to ensure that the world community seizes the opportunity to rebuild beyond the pandemic in more abundant, resilient and sustainable ways, as framed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
