Illuminate

📣 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸! Register today for “Well-being in Complexity.” Join CoCreative, the Academy for Systems Change and leaders in advancing well-being in systems change, Luzette Jaimes MSc, PCC and Adam Molyneux-Berry, PCC for a 90-minute interactive session. We will learn tools, practices and frameworks to more easily navigate our complex world. Adam and Luzette will lead an exploration of how the stories we have about the world shape how we see and respond to challenges, and how understanding this can help us shift our quality of life for the better. We’ll also work together to understand how the nervous system is wired for safety and threat, and how we can work with it to develop the capacity to manage stress, deal with tough situations, and come back to a state of balance and possibility. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰... ✨ examine wellbeing frameworks ✨ assess your own wellbeing ✨ and look at ways we can enhance our wellbeing, together ...𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘡𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬. 🗓️ October 22, 2024   🕗 9:00-10:30am PT, 12:00-1:30pm ET  🔗 Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gXKqKhtE --------------- The Well-Being for All Webinar Series  A Shared Inquiry into Well-Being in Systems and Ourselves Co-hosted by the Academy for Systems Change and CoCreative #WellBeing #Complexity #Leadership #PersonalGrowth #SystemsChange

“Bridging is the practice of creating the conditions to work across differences in the context of working to shift harmful systems and culture". Our report on the crucial role of "bridgers" in the #SystemsChange space is now available! The report titled, "Inquiry into Bridging from the Edges" is a collaborative project between the Illuminate Network and The Systems Sanctuary. The inquiry uses interviews, peer learning cohorts, and deep dive sessions with social change leaders from the UK, North America, Australia, and South Africa, to explore the challenges, opportunities, and key insights of bridging practices. It highlights how these leaders decenter dominant systems and foster equity and justice. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eYiDJqzu Special thank you to our cohort members: Tanya Birl Torres, Jorge Salazar, Luis Alejandro Tapia, Charlenne Tatenda Muranda (CH), Gabriela Alvarez Castañeda, Terrellyn Fearn, and Tatiana Fraser

There's still time to register for our final webinar of the Equitable Horizons blog series. Join Adler Yang today at 12:30pm (EDT) as he examines how top-down systems change approaches mechanize the new systems they create, marginalizing and harming those who fall into the systems architects' blindspots. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eweUfV4s

How does our dominant mode of education reflect a mechanism that drives the meta- and polycrises? How might we make sense of and navigate the seemingly different and potentially conflicting approaches to addressing these crises? How might we transform the system through our ways of living? 📅 New date for our webinar with Adler Yang, next Thursday August 8 at 12:30pm EDT. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eweUfV4s #systemschange #education #EquitableHorizons

In the final piece of our Equitable Horizons blog series, we discuss the origins of Illuminate and the importance of equity in the organization's focus. Our editorial collective (in charge of choosing and editing the pieces published) as well as the authors share their experiences and perspectives on navigating collective leadership and equity in systems change. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eWtrwPut

How does our dominant mode of education reflect a mechanism that drives the meta- and polycrises? How might we make sense of and navigate the seemingly different and potentially conflicting approaches to addressing these crises? How might we transform the system through our ways of living? 📅 New date for our webinar with Adler Yang, next Thursday August 8 at 12:30pm EDT. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eweUfV4s #systemschange #education #EquitableHorizons

Our webinar scheduled for today has been postponed. We apologize for the inconvenience. New date and time to be announced soon. Stay tuned!

///Without university, Wen used to thrive as a professional. However, entering university dragged her back to the brink of a poverty trap. Raised in a single-parent, low-income family, Wen has always been diligent and considerate. She studied hard enough to enter one of the better high schools in her city and kept getting good grades under high competition and pressure. However, everything changed when her grandfather got into an accident and she left high school to become his caregiver. Leaving school due to family financial difficulties may sound like a recipe for teen pregnancy, drugs, and crime, but the opposite was true for Wen.../// In this essay, I delve into the story of Wen, an economically disadvantaged student who excelled in a self-directed learning environment but struggled when she entered a prestigious university. I contrast two mechanisms in education: Learning by Caring and Allocation Dependence. Wen's success outside traditional schooling demonstrates the potential of Learning by Caring, as her care for others and a meaningful cause facilitated the reciprocal regeneration of learning resources, benefiting her holistic development with equitable autonomy and dignity. However, her return to formal education subjected her to the rigid structure of Allocation Dependence, where she had to fit predetermined resource allocation criteria that amplified her disadvantage, followed by a vicious cycle of insufficient allocated resources due to insufficient performance, which ultimately led to her withdrawal from the university to secure her finances through "quick money." Viewing Wen's story through the lens of complex adaptive systems, I critique the so-called "evidence-based" top-down systems change approaches (e.g., "send poor kids to [good] universities") that mechanize the new systems they create, marginalizing and harming those who fall into the systems architects' blindspots. I advocate for a Critical Realist Agent-Based Approach, which aims to increase every agent's awareness of the rules underlying detrimental emergence and empower them to shift such emergence by changing the rules they live by. I'll be presenting at Illuminate Systems' webinar on 12:30, July 31 (EDT) to discuss the research behind the story (A registration link is provided at the bottom of the essay at the link in the comments), exploring these questions: How is an underlying mechanism that drives the meta- and polycrises manifested through our dominant mode of education? How might we make sense of and navigate the seemingly different and potentially conflicting approaches to addressing these crises? How might we transform the system through our ways of living? I look forward to meeting anyone interested in exploring these questions together :)

Wherever we are in the web of systems, systems leadership and change can emerge by taking action to shift the rules we live by, thereby “being (leading) the change we want to see in the world.” Join Adler Yang on July 31 at 12:30pm EDT as we explore how might we make sense of and navigate the seemingly different and potentially conflicting approaches to addressing the meta- and polycrises driven by the dominant mode of education. Register now: https://lnkd.in/eeHRqT6v

How does our dominant mode of education reflect a mechanism that drives the meta- and polycrises? How might we make sense of and navigate the seemingly different and potentially conflicting approaches to addressing these crises? How might we transform the system through our ways of living? In our latest piece for the Equitable Horizons blog series, Adler Yang, examines these questions through the story of Wen, an economically disadvantaged student who excelled in a self-directed learning environment but struggled when she entered a prestigious university. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eAXD4ZTG #EquitableHorizons #SystemsChange #Education