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Living the questions
Notizen zum ersten Kapitel aus dem Buch Designing Regenerative Cultures.
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we face run-away climate change and other finite resource are getting knapper. change is inevitable.
transform everything: economics, education, social systems,energy, food, governance, activism
solutions become problems -> use answers to get to better questions
spark conversations practice + theory change perception
win-win-win collaboration
Our culture is obsessed with quick-fix solutions and immediate answers. “lets get practical and not waste time with theory or philosophy!” Wisdom will help us chart our path into an uncertain and unpredictable future. We need it to respond to multiple converging crises. With wisdom we can see those crisis as a driver for a deeper cultural transformation that is already occurring and challenges us to let go of outdated mental models.
Questions more than answers, are the pathway to collective wisdom
Questions can spark culturally creative conservations that transform how we see ourselves and our relationship to the world.
Questions are more universal over time and in different locations. When asking questions, we stop fighting over who has the best answer and reduce conflicts.
History offers many examples of yesterday’s solutions becoming today’s problems, so perhaps answers are the transient means to help us ask better questions.
Equally, in favouring practice over theory, are we not demonstrating how we have become blind to the fact that any practical action is based on our ideas and beliefs about the world whether we are conscious of them or not? The separation of theory and practice is false; they are not opposites but two sides of the same coin.
In order to enable transformative innovation to unfold its creative potential we need to redesign the financial and economic system at all scales from local to global.
Up-stream changes in our mental models, basic beliefs and assumptions about the nature of reality will affect how, what, and why we design, the needs we perceive, the questions we ask, and hence the solutions or answers we propose.
To move from a zero-sum culture (win-lose) to a non-zero-sum culture (win-win) necessitates widespread collaboration to ensure that nature also wins (win-win-win) and wins first, as she is the provider of the abundance upon which we depend.
Innovating win-win-win, integrative, whole-systems design solutions is about creating shared abundance through collaborative advantage.
Change and transformation is inevitable.
Living the questions more deeply is the cultural guidance system that will help us unleash the power of transformative social and technological innovation in the transition towards regenerative cultures.
Questions are ways to build bridges between these different sectors and between the different disciplines that compartmentalize our knowledge. Questions — and the conversations they spark — can unleash collective intelligence and help us value multiple perspectives.
Simply doing the wrong thing righter will no longer suffice. We need to question basic assumptions, worldviews and value systems, paying attention to what serves humanity and life and what doesn’t.
By living the questions, we will begin to see, think and live differently; and by living differently we can bring forth a different world.
Questions Storming
https://leadingwithquestions.com/leadership/question-storming/ https://www.impulse.de/management/selbstmanagement-erfolg/question-storming-methode/7413737.html