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The Inner Work of System Leadership
By John Kania, Radha Ruparell, Peter Senge,...
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An Impossible Alignment
By Laura Peña Zanatta São Paulo, Brazil...
From Fragmentation to Integration: Rethinking Leadership for a New Economic Era
On October 17, the Garrison Institute’s...
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Mapping the Field of Conscious Change
The Conscious Change Collective provides a new social systems map of organizations applying contemplative practice for social transformation as well as a community working toward transforming consciousness.
Inner Work Drives Outer Transformation
The Garrison Institute’s Spirituality & Social Change Program seeks to make visible, learn from, and catalyze a generative field at the intersection of contemplative practice, spirituality, and social change.
The Ecological Turn
Bridging Wisdom from Contemplative Traditions...
Integrating Inner & Outer Systems Change
We cannot solve complex sustainability issues using the approaches we’ve employed in the past. We need different approaches – and different mindsets – than those we’ve drawn on thus far.
These approaches and mindsets emerge from looking inward at the same time as we make outer change – from reflecting deeply on what’s here now as we grapple with complex and persistent predicaments like climate change and nature loss, social justice, trauma, and exploitative economic systems.
Islands of Coherence
““When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Quote by Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist. From March 15 to 17, 2023, a group of about 80 leaders gathered at the Garrison Institute for a Pathways to Planetary Health Symposium focused on the commons. Systems change was a recurrent theme at this meeting. One participant mentioned Ilya Prigogine’s quote above about “islands of coherence” as a way to think about shifting social systems.
Watch now—Pathways to Planetary Health: Joanna Macy
On January 14, 2021, Garrison Institute...
In Search of Societal Altruism
We live in a time of great uncertainty, with...
Lead by Example: Cultivating Wellness in the Workplace
A workplace flourishes when its leaders...
How Children Thrive: Prioritizing What Matters Most
Excerpted from HOW CHILDREN THRIVE: The...