Speakers: Bruce Goldstein, Julia Leventon, Glenn Page, Chris Riedy, Nick Graham Join 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 […]
Speakers: Bryan Jenkins, J. David Tàbara, Diego Galafassi, Jessica Böhme Presentations: Regenerative sustainability and transformative pathways. A relational perspective. J David Tàbara, Diego Galafassi Moving 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, […]
Speaker: Tim Strasser This 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 […]
Speakers: Simon Beaudoin, Christopher Ives, Angela Moriggi, Michael Bernstein, Per Olsson Presentations: Synergies for transformations Simon 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 […]
Speakers: Nithin Kuriakose, Sam Buckton, Julia Bentz, Anita Lazurko, Tani Khara Presentations Navigating Transitions: Exploring Emerging Design Attitudes forPluriverse Nithin Kuriakose Why 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, […]
Speaker: Bruce Goldstein, Jayne Bryant, Marilyn Mehlmann, Debbi Brock Panel discussion of the state of the field of systems education and the opportunities for developing its reach and impact Education for Sustainability Leadership - Supporting and Empowering Agents for Sustainability Transformations Jayne Bryant The global challenges of our time are unprecedented and urgent action for […]
Speaker: Amanda Jiménez-Aceituno, María D. López-Rodríguez Our 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 […]
Speakers: Glenn Page, Mark Cabaj, Kate McKegg, Mutizwa Mukute, Ian Goldman, Michael Quinn Patton, Bruce Goldstein Please 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 […]
Speaker: Johan Schot, Magdalena Schneider, Steve Waddell, Bruce Goldstein Financing 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 […]
Facilitator: Peter Wells
Speaker: Bruce Goldstein, Russ Gaskin, Brendon Johnson, Liz Weaver, Nono Sekhoto, Kerstin Tebbe Panel discussion of the field of network leadership development
Speaker: Etrit Shkreli, Katherine Palmer, Manon Doran This 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 – […]
Speaker: Jim Best We 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 […]
Facilitators: Pål Dobrin, Therese Asplund This 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) […]