Lecture at University of Melbourne – Compassionate Systems Change in Education
For the past decade, The Center for Systems Awareness has worked towards compassionate systems change – primarily in the field of education – with thousands of people from all over the world.
Most “systems change” efforts fail to produce the aspired change, often because of a lack of attention to the inner workings of human beings, including how we need to change our ways of showing up, of thinking and feeling in order for the systems we inhabit (and persistently reenact) to change.
The MIT Systems Awareness Lab study these processes as “living systems change” – in the hope that “re-enlivening” the structures of institutions and society will allow us to more consistently see outcomes of human and planetary flourishing. This is the team’s response to the poly-crisis of our time.
In this presentation, Dr Boëll explores the multiple ways in which collaborative structures and transdisciplinary designs may bring people into community and work towards a different trajectory for our future together.
Mette Boëll, Peter Senge and their colleagues at MIT have been leading significant systems change in education, building capabilities to address the systemic challenges facing our education systems across the globe. They have worked with large education systems, as well as individual schools and leaders in both the global north and south, providing unique insights of what is needed to enable flourishing in education.
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