Thanks Ernesto, your article resonates deeply with our 'fractal' approach at And Now What - Facilitating Emergence through Whole Systems Design (which includes 'governance').

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I wonder whether you have tried applying a 'collapse-awareness/ acceptance framing' to your approach? I'm pointing to the gap between current reality, emerging systemic conditions (climate chaos, peak resources, increasing pollution, biodiversity and ecosystem extinctions), virtual diaspora of frustrated change agents with no land to play on, people on the land who don't trust the virtual diaspora... all of these dynamics involve 'feedback loops' in the social field which often inhibit moving forward due to lack of trust and relational capability.

In light of all the above, I think we need to more clearly state the 'away from' (as a set of real-and-present common existential harms) not just the 'towards' (as a common-enough virtual ambition). I sense this requires a change in language from (the false-security assumed in?) terms like 'thivability' and 'sustainability', when we already know this is unlikely from where we are. This doesn't diminish the importance of regenerative efforts; however, it will reframe priorities around what still IS (possibly) viable and what IS (probably) NO LONGER viable; and more toward Nora Bateson's 'ready-ness' (which we at And Now What would then extend toward greater informed 'collapse preparedness').

Rewording Peter Block's phrase "Leadership (during collapse) is the willingness to help others see what is no longer safe, to involve ourselves and others in recognising what we must leave behind, how we might avoid and reduce that which harms, especially that produced by us (under previous leadership) before we were aware. It is the willingness to navigate the uncertainty of worlds that no longer support life, while exemplifying how to be authentic enough to become who we need to become"

Your thoughts?

Neil