Andrew Gaines – Inspiring Transition

SCAN FOCUS DESIGN and transformative social change

A process called SCAN FOCUS DESIGN is sometimes used for thinking through complex business problems. It is relevant to social change as well. I will give examples from different disciplines to illustrate each of these phases, and then connect the process to...

Introducing a new paradigm for social change

(Melbourne workshop, 17 Sept 2022) Largely unnoticed, but huge, the past 50 years have seen the emergence of disciplines that dramatically improve people’s mental and emotional functioning. This workshop will introduce several of them, and show how you can apply them...

Improving brain functioning and social change

At a garden party in Tel Aviv in the 1950s Moshe Feldenkrais observed a little girl trying to catch a light ball. The adults would gently throw the ball to her, and she would try to catch the ball by throwing her arms wide. This did not work. The ball would hit her in...

Mind-blank: A new climate psychology insight

A few months ago, reflecting on the confrontation between the US/NATO and Russia in Ukraine I concluded that there was a high probability of escalation to an intercontinental nuclear war, which via would mean the horrible unravelling of civilization as we know it....

We may not get out of this alive, but we should try

Like all wars, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is monstrous. To my mind, the lead up to the war is even more monstrous. I’m writing this because I think a highly probable outcome will be nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States. It can’t happen? Desperate...

SCAN FOCUS DESIGN and transformative social change

Introducing a new paradigm for social change

Improving brain functioning and social change

Mind-blank: A new climate psychology insight

We may not get out of this alive, but we should try

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