Progress towards what?

In our age of ecological breakdown, mass migrations, and potentially nuclear war, perhaps it helps to have a positive goal. One way of phrasing such a goal is to evolve a compassionate life-affirming culture. A life-affirming culture will care for people and the rest...

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...