Contemplation meets Complexity

What can complexity science and contemplative practice offer change makers?

When you're working for systems change in messy, people-filled environments, three things matter: understanding how complex systems actually behave, developing the inner capacity to sense and participate in what is emerging - and having sound methods and theory. 

Join Alexandra Robinson and Ivo Mensch for a two-hour workshop bringing together anthro-complexity science and contemplative practice. We'll work with how these disciplines complement each other – and what that means practically for your work.

What we'll explore:

Starting from sensing the present rather than planning distant futures. How contemplative practice and complexity science both point beyond the individual as the primary sense-maker. Why coherence sometimes requires disassembling existing patterns rather than fixing them. The difference between trying to predict outcomes versus participating in emergence.

Topics we'll cover:

• Examining assumptions in our theories of change
• Choosing an action-logic suited to different contexts
• Difference and plurality as creative potential for coherence
• Opening possibility spaces through how you perceive and participate
• Practices and methods for sensing what's actually present

This isn't about five-year strategies. It's about reflexivity, inquiry, and noticing how perception itself shapes what becomes possible. When systems no longer serve, the issue often lies in outdated ways of perceiving them – that is where we begin.

Buy your ticket (200 SEK): https://buytickets.at/whatisemerging/1949583