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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Speakers: Ioan Fazey, Petr Jehlicka, Bruce Goldstein East European households’ resource-use practices: Learning from the epistemic periphery Petr Jehlicka
Speaker: Sam Wearne, Ella Hubbard, Krisztina Jónás, Maria Wilke Our research project has generated insights into how bioreigoining is emerging. It sheds light on a range of topics that we […]
Speaker: Franziska Marfurt, Sibylle Studer What is the role of research in sustainability transformations? Who acts as supporter, critical friend, integrator, midwife, … evidence provider? We believe that transformations gain […]
Speakers: Esther Turnhout (University of Twente), Josephine Chambers (Utrecht University) Many commentators lament the lack of action in response to evidence of environmental crises, making reference to a broken science-policy […]
Speakers: Fern Wickson, Julia Leventon Transformative change is currently receiving much attention from science, practice and science-policy interfaces. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change 6th assessment (released 2022) refers to […]
Speakers: Felix Beyers, Carolin Fraude, Valerie Voggenreiter How can we confront and deal with fears while strengthening trust in the UN Climate Policy? Together with several partner organizations, the TranS-Mind […]
Speaker: Lisa Grocott, Mia Perry, Sharifa Abdulla, Reagan Kandole, Alison Colwell-Matsuura This panel will open up a dialogic and practical space for considering the affordances of creative methods when it […]
Speaker: Blane Harvey, Ying-Syuan (Elaine) Huang, Bruce Goldstein, Nick Graham The community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working on global climate and sustainability challenges are faced with two competing challenges: […]
Speaker: Meredith Lewis ‘Throw away the light, the definitions, and say, what you see, in the dark.‘ —Wallace Stevens We have all been jolted out of time and psychosocial space […]
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Leaders of transformation organizations will explore: What are transformations initiatives, and how do they differ from other social change initiatives? What have we learned about how to design and structure […]
Speakers: Violeta Cabello, Sarah Velten, Eugenia Castellazzi, Sierra Deutsch, Viola Hakkarainen, Sara Zaman, Jakub Macha Presentations: Shifting values, knowledge systems and agency in education, institutes and policy Viola Hakkarainen, Sara Zaman, Eugenia Castellazzi From academics, policy makers, to […]
Speakers: Sofia Maniatakou, Nathalie Sänger, Jorge Martín Motta, Simone Sandholz, Laura Arévalos Presentations: Exploring the roles and capacities of large-scale actor coalitions for sustainability transformations Sofia Maniatakou Several transnational corporations, investors and philanthropic organizations […]
Speakers: Julia Leventon, Zuzana Harmackova, Silja Zimmermann, Jan Christian Polanía Giese, Bruce Goldstein Panelists will describe their collaborative mapping processes, engage in dialogue about the similarities and differences in design, […]
Speaker: Viola Hakkarainen, Joel Onyango, Gladys Kivati, Nora Ndege Viola Hakkarainen will introduce the concept of engaging with diverse ways of knowing for sustainability transformations, and Joel Onyango, Gladys Kivati, […]
Speaker: Jonathan Langdon, Blane Harvey, Maha Husain, Sangeeta Singh, Sheena Cameron, Tahnee Prior, Erika Xananine Calvillo Ramirez, Daniel Valdovinos Stories move people. Discussing transformations means moving people to transform; it […]
Speakers: Pål Dobrin, Therese Asplund, Kira Cooper, Anne Taufen, Lakin Anderson Presentations: How can we cultivate individual wellbeing to support inner transformations? A wisdom tradition’s approach to personal sustainability transformations […]
Speakers: Florence Reed, Hedda Reich, Rita Golstein-Galperin, Maayan Agmon, Issabella Orlando Presentations Working Together to Create a Just and Sustainable World Through Transformative Farming Training that Nourishes Communities and the Earth Florence Reed Climate […]
Speakers: Gilbert Michaud, Flurina Schneider, Kajsa-Stina Benulic, Niko Schäpke Presentations Operationalizing Demand for Renewable Energy Projects in Laggard States Gilbert MichaudAs part of the unfolding energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables, […]
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Speakers: Valerie Voggenreiter, Felix Beyers, Fanny Langner What does it take for a sustainable society? What is missing to rethink our future? Silence holds self-love, connection to one another and […]
Speaker: Marcelle Holdaway Today’s postnormal times marked by ‘complexity, contradictions and chaos’ require wisdom to heal ourselves and the planet. There has long been various theories and practices applied to […]
Speaker: Otto Scharmer Join us for a keynote session with Otto Scharmer, renowned author and expert in the field of transformative change. In his presentation, "Co-Sensing and Co-Creating the […]
Speaker: Katy Roelich, Zuzana Harmackova Public sector decision making for sustainability transformations Katy RoelichThere is an emerging focus on how sustainability transformations might come about (Hajer et al., 2015; Willis, […]
Speakers: Zoë Deskin, Blane Harvey, Clara Mosso, Morgane Batkai, Julius Rathgens Presentations: Critical Food Systems Education in University Student-run Food Initiatives: Learning Dynamics, Outcomes, and Opportunities for Food Systems Transformation Zoë Deskin, Blane Harvey […]
Speaker: Katie Ross, Betty O'Neill, Jane Slattery Many scholars, cultures, and spiritual leaders attribute the outwardly disparate challenges of our time to the seemingly ubiquitous and unconscious logic of separation. […]
Speaker: Curtis Ogden Everything is energy. Energy systems science uses the ancient observation that all living systems are “flow-networks” - organisms and super-organisms whose existence arises from and depends on […]
Speakers: Jan Peter Glock, Felix Beyers Street experiments are an innovative way to transform urban transport systems. However, the evaluation of such experiments often lacks the capacity to display the […]
Speaker: Johann-Justus Wachs, Luea Ritter Purpose-driven organizations find themselves in contexts of wicked complexity, which entail significant ‘uncertainty, dynamism, pressures from multiple sources in different directions’ (Waddock et al., 2021, […]
Speaker: Seona Candy In July 2021, the European Commission launched the ‘Fit for 55’ climate policy package, designed to bring EU policies up to speed to achieve a 55% reduction […]
Speakers: Flávia Guerra, Thieu Besselink, Ethan Gordon, Johanna Couvée, Bouchra Lamsyeh Presentations: How to assess and define enabling mindsets for sustainability transformations? Insights from the Transformative Urban Coalitions project Flávia […]
Speakers: Victoria Shaw, Paloma Bernal Hernández This session will test the Pentagonal Map, an introductory Miro tool that features in the Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab: https://tipresourcelab.net/ The tool provides […]
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Speakers: Luea Ritter, Allyson Quinlan, Anna Kovasna Resilience Assessment as Transformative Practice: Working across knowledge paradigms, scales and geographies to nurture local resilience and transformative capacity Anna Kovasna, Luea Ritter, Allyson QuinlanA […]
The panel continues our consideration on how transformations practitioners design, manage, and facilitate transformations initiatives, with a focus on highly engaged evaluation practices. Adam Hejnowicz will begin by exploring how […]
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Speakers: Felix Beyers, Florian Markscheffel, Taiwo Isaac Olatunji, Marianne Grace Araneta, Irmelin Gram-Hanssen Presentations Political Challenges of a Textile Transformation Felix Beyers Collaborative governance is a promising approach to address […]
Transformative educators and process facilitators reflect on their experience engaging in transformative leadership development and discuss how to cultivate and support effective and inclusive leadership of transformations initiatives. Table discussion […]
Speakers: Justus Wachs, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir Presencing Stories - Sensing into deeper forms of organizational collaboration Justus Wachs, Uri Yitzchak Noy Meir Many organizations tackle systemic crises while remaining "under-resourced, […]
Speakers: Federico Robledo, Thieu Besselink, Lindsay K. Campbell, Stefan Partelow Presentations Co-production of knowledge to facilitate access to climate information: the case of Argentina My Climate Risk Hub Federico Robledo […]
Speaker: Luea Ritter, Nancy Zamierowski, Johann-Justus Wachs We offer systems sensing (Ritter & Zamierowski, 2021) as a practice to foster transformative leadership culture and partnership across sectors and places. Systems […]
Speakers: Luciano Villalba, Ailén Acosta, Velázquez Diego, Marcelo Stipcich, Simone Sandholz, Nathalie Sänger, Patrick Sanady, Tania Vachon, Christina Eisenbarth Presentations: Transformative innovation for climate adaptation in vulnerable neighbourhoods of Argentina […]
Speaker: David Pendle Otto Scharmer (2023) observes activating collective capacities towards systemic sustainability, is a primary deficit in many attempts at complex systemic transformations. Scharmer advocates awareness based systems change. […]
Speakers: Bobby Fishkin, Saskia Verraes, Mark Smith How do we know what we hope for is possible? How do we build a community that can work backward from the most inspirational examples […]
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 […]
Speaker: Filia Garivaldis, Annette Bos Aha learning moments, or Eureka moments, are defined as moments of sudden understanding, when learners begin to see connections that they were previously oblivious to […]
Speakers: Diana Lopez and Arwen Bailey, Fern Wickson, Carlos Álvarez Pereira CGIAR Community of Practice on Gender-Transformative Research Methodologies: Combining Feminist Approaches with CoP Praxis to Foster Transformation Diana Erika […]
Speaker: Anaïs Sägesser, Naveen Shamsudhin Societal transformation is a complex process that involves personal transformation, social equity, and systemic change. Central to this process is the recognition and acceptance of […]
Speakers: António Ferreira, Jonathan Morris, Ine Dorresteijn, Tadeáš Žďárský Presentations: Children’s right to the city: Challenging technological, institutional and mental infrastructures António Ferreira It is widely accepted today that societies […]
Speakers: Daniel Peter, Sherman Farhad, Mirjam Schleiffer, Marta Nieto-Romero, Marta Varanda Presentations: Disruptive agency dynamics in urban sustainability transformations – A conceptual approach for studying insider-outsider relations in urban mobility […]
Speaker: Anna Schwachula, Tatjana Reiber Redirecting pathways towards sustainable development requires substantive transformations throughout our societies. To find solutions for complex sustainability challenges, actors of different social groups and sectors […]
Speaker: Sabrina Schork We know from former research that we need to develop self-effective individuals and self-organized groups that think and act sustainably as well as digital. The need to […]
Speaker: Lauren Lambert Ecological empathy can help to build human-nature (re) connection by enhancing relational values in sustainability practice. In this session I will present a step by step practice […]
Speaker: Guido Caniglia, Rebecca Freeth, Marina Knickel Contributing to transformative processes of change towards sustainability is an admirable but daunting aspiration. These processes require embracing transformative change at multiple levels […]
Speakers: Genta Konci, Mariana Zafeirakopoulos, Glory Dee Romo Presentations Promoting paradigm shifts towards a climate-resilient world: Lessons from evaluations of the Green Climate Fund Genta Konci Most multilateral development agencies […]
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Speaker: Curtis Ogden, Karen Spiller This session will entail a closer look at Food Solutions New England (FSNE), a 12 year old network advancing a more just, sustainable, resilient and […]
Our objective is to collectively explore what environments can foster commitment, heart-centered connections to humans and non-humans, and trust, which together are defined as a “transformative relationality”. Building on insights […]
Speakers: Marco Billi, Christina Zurbriggen, Roxana Bórquez, Anahí Urquiza, Silvana Juri Presentations: Discussing structural, systemic and enabling approaches to socio-environmental transformations: Stimulating an interdisciplinary and plural debate within the […]
During this final session of the conference, attendees will reflect on their experience and consider how we can develop as a field, and how the Transformations Community can enhance our […]
Speakers: Susanne Moser; Bruce Goldstein Closing Session: Join your community for an invigorating closing session that focuses on turning inspiration into action! Hear from sensemakers cross the 300 sessions as […]