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SUMMARY:Online Online Opening Session
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Bruce Goldstein\, Julia Leventon\, Glenn Page\, Chris Riedy\, Nick Graham \nJoin us for the opening session of the sixth Transformations conference\, where scholars and practitioners from around the globe gather to exchange ideas and initiatives for fostering sustainable\, regenerative\, and equitable futures. We will hear from our main conference host in Sydney and discover how our global program aligns with the conference theme of “Transformative Partnerships for a Better World”\, as we take a collective moment to reflect on our motivations and intentions for the conference. \nWe will celebrate the Transformations Community’s 10th anniversary\, and we invite you to share what you’re celebrating in your own work. We will share how you can connect with like-minded individuals and take part in the diverse opportunities of this gathering that enhance our capacity to bring about positive transformations. This vibrant community is a hub of innovation and collaboration\, don’t miss it!
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-online-opening-session/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Paradigms and Practices
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Bryan Jenkins\, J. David Tàbara\, Diego Galafassi\, Jessica Böhme \nPresentations: \nRegenerative sustainability and transformative pathways. A relational perspective.\nJ David Tàbara\, Diego Galafassi \nMoving towards net-positive regenerative development pathways requires a cultural shift in the way we think about human agency\, social-ecological systems and the relationships between both. In this talk\, I introduce a relational\, non-exemptionalist\, whole-life systems perspective to explore the possibilities of building the transformative conditions required to achieve a positive tipping point towards global regenerative sustainability. To do so\, first I suggest that current attempts aimed at theorising sustainability transformations would benefit from a perspective that sees humans -and their organisations and societies- as coupled social-ecological systems. Acknowledging that we live in the environment as much as the environment lives inside each of us helps us to see ourselves and the world around us as a continuum of embodied life forms socially mediated by: social norms and institutions (S)\, the consumption of energy and natural resources (E)\, information and knowledge systems (I) and increasing cumulative and depletive global environmental changes (C). Then\, I argue that creating the conditions for the emergence of positive tipping points toward regenerative futures may be possible\, albeit not necessarily likely; and this may occur whenever multiplicative synergies between the restoration and net improvement of social and biophysical capitals are deliberately triggered across multiple scales and domains of agency. \nA relation paradigm to rethink inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene\nJessica Böhme \nTo respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene\, scholars from various disciplines increasingly emphasize that a mere outer transformation is insufficient and that we also need an inner transformation that addresses deep leverage points. Yet\, the open questions are how the inner and outer dimensions relate to each other and how inner transformation might lead to outer transformation. How we attempt to answer these questions is determined by our dominant paradigm. Paradigms define how we understand and shape the world\, and thus\, they define how we conceptualize challenges\, such as inner and outer transformation. Various authors argue that the dominant paradigm\, which is characterized by reductionism\, empiricism\, dualism\, and determinism\, might be a root cause for insufficiently addressing sustainability challenges. As an alternative\, many argue for a relational paradigm\, which understands complex phenomena in terms of constitutive processes and relations. A relational paradigm might offer possibilities to reconceptualize inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene and might shed new light on how to integrate both in sustainability science. Yet\, it’s still being determined how a relational paradigm can contribute to the understanding of inner and outer transformations towards sustainability in the Anthropocene. Therefore\, this oral presentation’s overarching scope is to generate insights into and exploring possibilities of a relational paradigm for inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene. As a conclusion\, inner and outer transformation in the Anthropocene can be reconceptualized as paradigm-ing relationality in the Ecocene. “Paradigm-ing” as an active verb\, reconceptualizes inner and outer transformation into ontologies\, epistemologies\, ethics\, and socialecological realities that are ongoing\, nonhierarchical\, nonlinear\, dynamic\, co-creative processes of intra-action. The Ecocene decenters the human and attends to what we might be able to intra-act and become-with. These insights can offer unexplored perspectives to address sustainability challenges and increase our capacities to respond in novel ways. \nThe Transformation Process as an Adaptive Cycle illustrated by Recovery from Desertification in Shinyanga\nBryan Jenkins \nThe presentation delineates a framework for social-ecological system assessment and transformation based on Holling’s adaptive cycle. It considers assessments of disturbance beyond the biophysical system capacity to recover. The transformation process for recovery is depicted as an adaptive cycle of using human and economic resources (exploitation phase)\, accumulating knowledge as well as social\, cultural and economic capital (accumulation phase)\, formulating new approaches to biophysical system management (disturbance phase)\, and developing new institutional arrangements (reorganisation phase). The transformation process leads to the implementation of management interventions for the biophysical system. Interventions relate to the four phases of the biophysical system adaptive cycle: (1) reducing pressure on the resource (exploitation phase)\, (2) addressing legacy issues (accumulation phase)\, (3) increasing system resilience (disturbance phase)\, and (4) rehabilitating adverse effects (reorganisation phase). In Shinyanga\, Tanzania\, before colonial occupation there were intact Miombo and Acacia woodlands. Woodland clearance to eradicate tsetse fly and expand agriculture led to soil erosion and desertification. Centralised attempts at restoration by colonial government and subsequently the independent government failed to be implemented. When a new centralised programme was established in 1986 the program manager found he needed to work in partnership with local farmers and incorporate traditional knowledge and institutions to be effective. The traditional practice of ngitili enclosures (areas of standing vegetation that remain closed to livestock during the wet season to be used as fodder resources during the dry season) was integrated with modern agroforestry techniques. A nested system of village\, regional and national institutions was created\, and international financial contributions were received. Restoration of woodlands was achieved\, and other ecosystem services increased\, such as wood supply\, bringing economic benefits and improving biodiversity. Sustainability analysis identified disturbance threats to be managed for ongoing sustainability such as population growth\, elite capture of benefits\, and rule compliance by neighbouring villages.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-paradigms-and-practices/
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Measuring collective impacts of community-led sustainability initiatives
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tim Strasser \nThis session will explore together with other practitioners\, evaluators and academics how the distributed and highly diverse movement of community-led sustainability initiatives (that ECOLISE is seeking to steward\, enable\, and catalyse) can tell better stories of the collective impacts they can potentially have and are already making. That is in order to build stronger recognition among mainstream policy\, academia\, and civil society of the role communities have to play in bringing about more desirable\, thriving\, and just futures. But also to mirror back to the movement what impacts they are or could be having and what might be blocking their transformative potential. A review of existing research and impact evaluations will be used as a conversation starter for this session\, in order to explore how to better measure and narrate the existing and potential impacts of community-led initiatives\, and what might be needed to do that.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/measuring-collective-impacts-of-community-led-sustainability-initiatives/
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Simon Beaudoin\, Christopher Ives\, Angela Moriggi\, Michael Bernstein\, Per Olsson\n\nPresentations:\n\nSynergies for transformations\nSimon BeaudoinFifty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE)\, a comprehensive environmental governance architecture is still needed. This article investigates the potential for adapting policies to synergies among socio-ecological issues. Aiming to identify promising avenues for transformative change\, it presents lenses through which adapted governance arrangements across sectors can be crafted. The guiding question of the research asks How can interdependent social and environmental issues be governed synergistically? Seeking to move beyond inconsistencies\, dreadlocks\, fragmentation\, and overlaps in global environmental governance\, it argues in favour of a comprehensive approach to the governance of socio-ecological issues. Through multidisciplinary lenses\, the paper offers pragmatic pathways toward governing synergies among social and ecological spheres and building adapted governance architecture. I first identify key connections stretching across the Earth System and societies. Second\, I identify interdependencies and overlaps between areas where integrated and coordinated governance arrangements could prove beneficial. Third\, building on the notion of synergies\, I propose a framework for their integration. Based on the analysis of international\, national\, and local realities and programs\, I show that synergies can be harnessed under a comprehensive multi-level framework\, within common timeframes\, and lead to concerted actions. This paper brings together the theoretical and empirical insights of the last decades of research in social and natural sciences to develop governance architectures that work ‘beyond silos’. It closes with the investigation of how governing synergies could help achieve collective goals. Ultimately\, it aims to support the work underway to deploy and support solutions to contemporary socio-ecological issues. Keywords: Synergies; Transformations; Governance Architecture; Policy Synergies; Socio-ecological issues; Policy mixes; Policy integration; Multidisciplinarity. \nSustainability in a turbulent future: A horizon scan of necessary leadership capabilities\nChristopher Ives \nIn the context of impending climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse\, future scenarios are often framed as two possible pathways: system ‘breakdown’ where planetary thresholds are transgressed or ‘breakthrough’ where societies are reoriented towards sustainability. However\, growing evidence highlights interactions that may accelerate feedbacks among phenomena such as climate extremes\, crop failure\, energy stress and geopolitical conflict. To date\, there has been scant consideration of the kind of leadership that will be required to guide future action in this context of accelerating ecological\, socio-cultural and political turbulence. This study aimed to address this gap through an interview-based horizon scanning exercise to explore (1) what mental models of the future do environmental practitioners possess? (2) what challenges to leading change may emerge with increasing uncertainty and turbulence? and (3) what skills and competencies may be required to deliver effective change in 2040? While horizon scanning has been widely used to anticipate future trends or events\, this study innovatively applies it to capacities for leading change. 28 members of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) from various professional contexts were interviewed by students from University of Nottingham in March 2023. Thematic coding of transcripts was employed to elicit key insights\, and deliberative discussion amongst students and IEMA staff used to distil core challenges for future sustainability leadership. Results showed that environmental professionals displayed limited awareness of future global systemic complexities and how these may challenge current leadership norms. In many instances there was a disconnection between personal visions of the future and current professional practices. Anticipatory competence for sustainability (c.f. Wiek et al.\, 2011) therefore must be extended to include future practical responses. There is an urgent need to translate insights from global sustainability science to practical leadership. Communities of practice such as IEMA will be vital in this endeavour.\n\nCross-sectoral partnerships & knowledge co-production to activate regenerative place-based mindsets in youth\nAngela Moriggi \nYoung people are key stakeholders in the sustainable transformations of any territory\, and yet often left out of planning and decision-making processes. Youth engagement is crucial not only to voice ideas and desires\, but also to enhance knowledge and skills\, including the capacity to think and act in regenerative ways. This is especially needed in rural areas affected by marginalization\, depopulation\, ecological degradation\, and socio-economic decay\, amongst others issues. Such processes often push young people away from their territories\, in search of “better” opportunities in urban centres. This presentation focuses on a partnership established amongst inter-disciplinary scholars at the University of Padova and a local Foundation (Fondazione Angelini – Centre for Mountain Studies) active in a rural area in the Italian South-Eastern Alps\, within the context of two concurrent (2022-2024) projects: VERVE and RIGENERA MONTAGNA. Both projects aim to enhance young people’s awareness around key sustainability topics\, including biodiversity loss and conservation\, sustainable water management\, place-based regeneration\, rural areas abandonment and rewilding processes\, and the climate crises. We combine scientific and technical knowledge with emotional and embodied approaches\, to elicit participants’ sense of place\, care\, and agency. To do so\, we experiment with innovative creative\, visual\, and experiential methods (also outdoor)\, engaging youth between 16 and 30 years of age. In the presentation\, we focus on a series of Creative Labs that combine the use of Photo-Voice with nature-based experiential and somatic exercises. We introduce the conceptual framework guiding the activities\, which aims to activate “regenerative mindsets”\, understood here as ways of thinking\, beliefs\, and assumptions that value the interconnections between humans and non-humans\, and that inform practices for the well-being and thriving of both. We also provide key insights regarding the process of knowledge co-production undergoing between the actors engaged in the partnership\, highlighting crucial enabling and dis-enabling factors. \nRe-imagining “Societal Readiness” in Research and Innovation Policy for Transformation\nMichael Bernstein \nAn increasing concern of research and innovation (R&I) policy in Europe\, in the context of the twin green and digital transitions\, is to ensure scientific\, technological\, and social innovations do not undermine transformation for sustainability. There has been increasing attention to aligning R&I to similar ends across European R&I policy Framework Programmes. One may observe the success of such efforts over the long-term\, for example\, with gender equality—started in Framework Programme 5\, and now\, several decades later\, an eligibility requirement for all organizations seeking European Research funding in Framework Programme 9 (although still far from fully realized). In Framework Programme 8 (H2020)\, the predominant character of efforts to center societal concerns could be found in the “societal challenges” funding pillar\, as well as a cross-cutting set of concerns: “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). Responsible research and innovation sought to enhance a general regard of and care for future social and environmental impacts of research. As a cross-cutting investment in H2020\, almost 500 million Euro went toward building RRI community\, methods\, and toolkits. Implementation of RRI\, however\, faced numerous challenges\, from being obscure and siloed\, to overly fixated on projects\, rather than research agendas or Framework Programmes themselves. Now in Framework Programme 9\, RRI has been “mainstreamed” (i.e.\, discontinued)\, and there is increasing talk about an initiative related the “societal readiness” of R&I. Challenges with current thinking about societal readiness include: homogenized views of society; linear thinking equating “readiness” with “acceptability”; an under-theorization of how readiness is moderated by various social phenomena (e.g.\, trust\, legitimacy\, etc.); and falling prey to the pitfalls of operationalizing “readiness” in the same manner as RRI without learning from failures. In this presentation\, I invite a reimagining of “societal readiness” in R&I and discuss the potential of this policy idiom for sustainability transformations. \nOlsson\nPer Olsson
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-leadership/
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SUMMARY:Online Panel: Transformative Learning & Knowledge Practices
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Nithin Kuriakose\, Sam Buckton\, Julia Bentz\, Anita Lazurko\, Tani Khara \nPresentations \nNavigating Transitions: Exploring Emerging Design Attitudes forPluriverse\nNithin Kuriakose\n\nWhy do more complex problems arise the more we design? What are the design attitudes for societal transitions? How are they connected? This study explores why we need better design interventions and also evaluates\, differentiates and simplifies the contemporary design attitudes that are shaped across the globe in the last decades that helps in solving complex or wicked problems for a better future. It also tries to find commonalities and differences between Ontological design\, Speculative design\, Pluriversal design and Transition design as approaches and links its connectedness to Pluriversal Thinking. \nThe Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems\nSam Buckton \nSocieties must be transformed from degenerative patterns to those that support the flourishing of life. This will require significant shifts beyond technological and behavioural change and which include changes in systemic structures\, patterns and dynamics and the beliefs\, values and paradigms that underpin them. While interest in regenerative systems is growing\, there is still limited cohered understanding of what constitutes such systems at social-ecological scales. This presentation introduces a new conceptual\, cross-disciplinary and action-oriented framework\, produced through a wide cross-disciplinary literature review and testing ideas with groups of researchers. Emerging from this process are four key insights about what constitutes regenerative social-ecological systems or what would be required within approaches seeking to bring about regenerative dynamics. The framework emphasises that to be regenerative\, a system (e.g. household\, community\, city or region) needs to: (1) support the wellbeing of both itself and the wider system of which it is a part\, such that internal and external wellbeing are mutually reinforcing; (2) foster such dynamics especially between humans and wider ecological systems; (3) embody an ecological worldview in which people and wider nature are considered interconnected and inseparable; and (4) uphold four core qualities of mutualism\, high diversity\, agency for humans and non-humans to act regeneratively\, and continuous reflexivity. The framework can be applied as a lens to help create ambitious and imaginative ideas of what might be desired from successful transformation\, help maintain transformational intent in change initiatives\, and guide the development of transformational forms of evaluation. \nThe making of “Creative Approaches to Climate and Peace Education: An educator’s guide to using storytelling and art“\nJulia Bentz \nEver more complex global issues require new and possibly different competences on the part of the younger generation and demand that teachers\, practitioners\, and lecturers constantly adapt their teaching methods and contents to a changing world. But what kind of approaches help teachers and practitioners to navigate these complexities in a learning setting? How does one engage young people with climate change\, perceived by many as complex\, and at the same time contributing to growing feelings of sadness\, hopelessness\, and anxiety among them? How can we as educators create and nurture a culture of peace in and around us while conflict continues to dominate the news? The idea of an educators’ guidebook using storytelling and art emerged from a creative process at the Summer Conference of the Georg Arnhold Program on Education for Sustainable Peace in August 2021. The event brought together researchers engaged in education for sustainability and peace from contexts. The exchange of knowledge and experience catalyzed several insights\, including the importance of developing more creative resources for climate change and peace education\, especially material integrating the two areas. Storytelling is an emerging tool which can create learning spaces where both storytellers and listeners can engage in deeper learning and where transformative change can happen. The created open-access book addresses the power of stories and art for learning about the global challenges via five themes: Hope and Imagination\, Many Meanings of Peace\, Healing Trauma and Creating Resilience Connection and Community\, and Learning as a Journey. Each of these sections illustrates how stories can support the learning process\, integrates personal stories and provides resources for practical application and further reading. It is meant to be a helpful and hopeful guide for colleagues such as teachers\, practitioners\, and action researchers to address global challenges in their classes and workshops. \nOperationalizing ambiguity in sustainability research: Addressing the elephant in the room\nAnita Lazurko \nScenarios are increasingly popular tools for anticipating and navigating change in sustainability research and practice. However\, scenario practice currently lacks the reflexivity required to a) critically reflect upon how choices made in the design of a scenario process influences scenario outcomes\, and b) enrich these choices to produce scenarios that reflect the dynamics of change in complex social-ecological systems (SES)\, including transformation. This gap presents risks to the salience and legitimacy of scenarios\, especially given the need to anticipate the complex and potentially transformative changes that humanity may experience in the 21st century. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a reflexive framework that 1) characterizes how key boundary judgments (i.e.\, choices that delineate what is included or excluded from a system) involved in a scenario process influence the scope of future potential reflected in scenario outcomes\, and 2) proposes the degree to which this scope of future potential may reflect the dynamics of\, and/or conditions for\, SES change. A process of abductive inquiry in seminal literatures related to scenario practice and sustainability research\, in addition to 72 social-ecological scenario case studies\, produced the final framework (Boundaries of the Future). The framework is comprised of ten boundary judgments under categories of framing (e.g.\, epistemological lens)\, methodology (e.g.\, degree of formalization)\, and characterization (e.g.\, scale). The most expansive choice under each judgment enriches scenarios to consider the potential for transformation. Analysis of the 72 case studies used to develop the framework exhibits a bias away from transformative scenarios under some judgments. In sum\, this study introduces a practical tool and research agenda to demystify and enrich scenario practice in sustainability science\, particularly under increasing to reflexively ‘open up’ scenarios to the novel conditions of transformation.Ambiguity is widely recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless\, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research\, ambiguity is often an ‘elephant in the room’ to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability research by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability challenges and the ways in which research renders certain frames visible or invisible. This risk is relevant to transformation\, which emerges from novel framings that are often marginalized. Critical systems thinking (CST) grew out of the efforts of operational researchers to develop appreciation of both theoretical and practical aspects of ambiguity. Thus\, we adapted key frameworks and lessons from CST literature to establish 1) a holistic conceptualization of ambiguity and 2) recommendations on how to operationalize ambiguity as a valuable (and potentially transformative) means of addressing sustainability challenges. We conceptualize ambiguity as: an emergent feature of the simultaneous and interacting boundary processes associated with being\, knowing\, and intervening in complex systems. This characterization 1) acknowledges the boundary of a researcher’s subjective orientation and its influence on how ambiguity is exposed and mediated (being)\, 2) characterizes knowledge as produced through the process of making boundary judgments\, generating a partial\, contextual\, and provisional frame (knowing)\, and 3) situates a researcher as part of the complexity they seek to interpret\, rendering any boundary process as a form of intervention that reinforces or marginalizes certain frames (intervening). We suggest reflexivity as a crucial capacity for transdisciplinary researchers to navigate persistent ambiguity and play an enabling role in transformation. We draw from CST literature and four case study reflections to offer the novel framework of ‘reflexive boundary critique’ to guide critical reflection on ambiguity\, or the ‘elephant in the room’\, at all stages of the research process. \nThe transformative role of ‘Voluntary Simplicity’ in encouraging meat reduction in urban India\nTani Khara \nToday\, in many parts of urban India\, consumption has moved beyond its utilitarian function of serving essential human needs. Consumption has become a status symbol\, and the pursuit of social classism has encouraged increasing levels of conspicuous consumption. When it comes to food\, meat tends to be viewed as a status symbol. Changing cultural practices have encouraged the emergence of high-end meat shops in India’s major urban centres\, where different meats symbolise status. Meat’s association with status\, novelty and progress is why meat consumption is rapidly increasing which also makes India one of the world’s fastest growing markets in its consumption of meat. Given the environmental and ethical impacts of meat\, encouraging sustainable dietary practices in the world’s most populous country is necessary. This paper explores how ‘Voluntary Simplicity’ (VS) can help encourage sustainable dietary practices in India. VS is where an individual willingly opts to reduce their material consumption. Research\, among mainly Western consumers\, has highlighted that awareness of the socio-environmental impacts of consumption choices has helped encourage practices like minimising food waste\, buying local and ‘buycotting’ preferred goods and companies. While this topic remains underresearched in India\, there is encouraging evidence for the potential for VS given long-standing Brahmin and Gandhian practices of simplicity and the Buddhist concept of ‘ahimsa’ which continue to make vegetarianism a popular dietary choice. On the other hand\, young urban Indians are moving away from perceived traditional values of simplicity and collectivism\, and are increasingly looking for ways to assert their identity and uniqueness. Against this changing urban backdrop\, vegetarianism is also considered utilitarian while non-vegetarian foods represent symbols of modernity and high-class status. This paper will go deeper into opportunities and challenges for VS when it comes to encouraging transformation among contemporary urban Indian eating practices.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/online-panel-transformative-learning-knowledge-practices/
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Systems Education
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruce Goldstein\, Jayne Bryant\, Marilyn Mehlmann\, Debbi Brock\n\n\n\nPanel discussion of the state of the field of systems education and the opportunities for developing its reach and impact \nEducation for Sustainability Leadership – Supporting and Empowering Agents for Sustainability Transformations\nJayne Bryant \nThe global challenges of our time are unprecedented and urgent action for transformation is needed of our systems\, policies\, institutions and our ways of thinking. Education of sustainability leaders is a key leverage points to achieve this and it is our worldviews\, paradigms and ways of being\, doing and thinking that have created our systems and structures and therefore transformative learning and leadership development that addresses this is key. In this relatively new field\, practitioners and educators grapple with what best promotes sustainability leadership development\, and with what competencies\, capacities and transformative outcomes educators should be aiming to develop. How do we best design and operate learning experiences that truly build capacity for leadership for sustainability? As an educator and facilitator of sustainability work for over a decade\, working at the crossroads of education for sustainability leadership; organisational and community change\, lecturing on leadership for sustainability in Australia and currently being Co-Director of the Master’s in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) program in Sweden\, I have rested this PhD thesis firmly within an action-oriented transformations research paradigm in which the only way to understand a system is through a comprehensive attempt to change it. Seven cases of sustainability leadership education are presented in this compilation thesis. Methods include surveys with open questions; workshops; interviews; document analysis; field notes and one case is an ethnography of a bureaucracy undergoing an organisational change program in a local government in Perth\, Western Australia and the learning and policy interventions that supported this change. The aim of this work was to establish an improved understanding of this and to find recommendations for practitioners and educators with ambitions to create systems change for sustainability by building the capacity of people to be sustainability leaders.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-systems-education/
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Thinking about the future with mind and body: combining the Three Horizons method and Theatre of the Oppressed techniques in sustainability transformations research
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno\, María D. López-Rodríguez \nOur session will focus on showing how transdisciplinary processes for imagining sustainable futures can be improved by combining conventional research approaches to knowledge co-creation (e.g.\, mental models and conceptual diagrams) with art-based research methods\, specifically Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. We seek to spark the discussion about the advantages and potential limitations of employing such a combination of methods to engage stakeholders in sustainability transformations. The insights will shed light on how coupling conventional cognitive tools with art-based techniques can help expand conventional epistemologies towards practical\, embodied\, and emotional domains in transdisciplinary and transformations research.
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Transformations Evaluation and Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Glenn Page\, Mark Cabaj\, Kate McKegg\, Mutizwa Mukute\, Ian Goldman\, Michael Quinn Patton\, Bruce Goldstein\n\n\nPlease join six of the global leaders in assessment in evaluation on Tuesday July 11th 14-15:30 CEST online – for an engaging dialogue on the current state of the practice of assessment and evaluation as applied to large scale transformation. Moderators Glenn Page and Michael Quinn Patton will welcome panelists from Africa\, Australasia and the Americas to discuss the pressing need to both evaluate transformation and transform evaluation to do so. The expertise and global/local perspectives on this panel are immense and will be relevant to all practitioners and researchers concerned with adaptive learning in the Anthropocene Polycrisis.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-transformations-evaluation-and-assessment/
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Financing Systemic Transformation:  An emerging field
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Johan Schot\, Magdalena Schneider\, Steve Waddell\, Bruce Goldstein\n\n\nFinancing the transformation needed to respond to today’s polycrisis is grossly inadequate in scale and the processes to connect finance to systemic change work are almost non-existent.  Current approaches to financing – philanthropic\, governmental and private – are largely unaligned with the needs associated with financing transformational solutions. The CoP27 President’s final statement called for “a transformation of the financial system and its structures and processes.”1 In short\, the financing systems themselves require deep systemic change.2 \nIn response to this need\, thought and practice innovators are creating fundamentally new approaches to financing systemic transformation.  Today\, they can be considered an emerging new field of finance and a strategy to fundamentally change the core logics of finance.  They reflect the understanding that transforming a powerful system cannot be done through piecemeal strategies. History demonstrates that such an approach is easily co-opted. Rather\, successful new systems are required that can displace the traditional powerhouses. \nThis panel will provide insight into the development of the field and its distinctive qualities.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-financing-systemic-transformation-an-emerging-field/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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SUMMARY:Conversation Café
DESCRIPTION:Facilitator: Peter Wells
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/conversation-cafe/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T183000
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SUMMARY:State of the Field: Network Leadership Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bruce Goldstein\, Russ Gaskin\, Brendon Johnson\, Liz Weaver\, Nono Sekhoto\, Kerstin Tebbe\n\n\nPanel discussion of the field of network leadership development
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/state-of-the-field-network-leadership-development/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T183000
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Climate conversations workshop: facts\, connection\, hope\, action
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Etrit Shkreli\, Katherine Palmer\, Manon Doran\n\nThis interactive\, thought-provoking\, and action-oriented workshop centers around the question: ‘As individuals\, what can we do about climate change?’ Our goal is to create momentum for collaboration and transform awareness into effective and tangible steps. We will all face challenges\, so let us rediscover our shared humanity – and the realization that we all have within us the wisdom to help each other. Through focused engagement with our peers\, we become aware of patterns and discover solutions that were previously hidden from view. We practice listening and clarifying while asking for and offering help in a respectful and generous space.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/t-practice-workshop-climate-conversations-workshop-facts-connection-hope-action/
LOCATION:Online Room 2
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T193000
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SUMMARY:T-Practice Workshop: Social System Mapping as a Transformative Process
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jim Best\n\nWe live in a world of resilient complex adaptive social systems. Transformation in this realm requires tools of requisite complexity\, a cognitive shift from systems-as-machines to systems-as-organisms\, and a relational shift from ego-networks to eco-networks. Social system mapping is a powerful way to interact with\, and perceive\, systems. It is a community-engaging design practice formulating and visualizing personal and connection questions based on the collective’s theory of change. The dynamically-updated map facilitates collective sense-making\, helping communities to better achieve their purposes and assess change interventions. This workshop dives into the theory\, taps into audience experience\, and demonstrates actual maps.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/social-system-mapping-as-a-transformative-process/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230711T203000
DTSTAMP:20260722T035408
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SUMMARY:Meditation: Compassion for oneself\, others and the world
DESCRIPTION:Facilitators: Pål Dobrin\, Therese Asplund\n\n\nThis session is designed as a meditative practice and sharing of experiences among the online community at the Transformations Conference 2023. Based on the Buddhist tradition of the Four Immeasurables – loving-kindness (friendliness)\, compassion (willing to cease suffering)\, appreciative joy (feeling happy for others)\, and equanimity (calm based on wisdom) (Sujiva\, 2003)\, this meditation session will guide the participants on a journey into the heart. The heart has to have its place\, and be heard. We have ignored it much too often\, notably as current approach to realizing climate and sustainability targets has been predominantly techno-economic informed by rational choice models of decision-making (O’Brien\, 2018). In addition\, feelings of stress\, anxiety and pain is often associated with the threats climate change poses. This meditation guides our focus to the subtle awareness within\, to self-love\, to wishing happiness to others and non-human life forms on Earth. It offers kindness\, humility and feelings of interconnectedness. At the end of the session\, we jointly explore engagement when coming from a place of compassion\, kindness and altruism rather than stress\, anxiety and pain. The presentation is part of a transdisciplinary and collaborative research project between partners Empaticus – an organization with long experience of widom traditions\, contemplative practices and inner transformation and Department of Thematic Studies – unit of Environmental Change\, Center for Climate Policy Research at Linköping University with expertise in the intersection between sustainability transformations\, sense-making\, and communication. In particular\, the project 1) develops a conceptual model for inner transformation processes\, 2) empirically investigates experiences of personal transformative change\, 3) simultaneously engage in partnership for personal sustainability transformations. The presentation is supported by the Swedish Research Council FORMAS under Grant No. 2021 -01254.
URL:https://transformationsconference23.bemodos.com/event/meditation-compassion-for-oneself-others-and-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Room 1
CATEGORIES:Online
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