We have treated organisations as mechanisms and people as components, regarding their intelligence as located in documents, processes and upper management. ~ We need to recognise that organisations are living systems and fluid ecologies of intelligence from bottom to top. ~ This requires a balance of people-oriented and material-oriented perspectives. ~ Their functionality can only be addressed through the creation of flow and dynamic relationship.
Organisations are more than structures, functional blocks and fixed connectors. Companies, social service providers or government administration alike, are all formed of people, actions, information flows, mindsets, contexts and shared beliefs. ~ The intelligence by which such entities function is present throughout, at all levels, in people and systemics. ~ Previous mindsets may have been solidified in processes New thinking begins with people, but structures must flex for it to sustain.
Meshworks
What can you achieve when you connect everything to everything else, flexibly, fluidly, where functionally required, and only for as long as is necessary?
Systems need to be adaptive to internal shifts and external pressures. Whether you are dealing with companies, cities, public service organisations, all operate best when able to continually adapt to change.
Meshworking / Living Systems Design is a fluid and multi-layered way to connect elements in a system.
Agility and responsiveness are built in so that elements are dynamically flexible, and ongoing change is part of the design.
What Value Does This Deliver?
In an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world, rapid response is essential. Many have tried “hunkering down” and working harder, putting themselves further away from adaptability.
For many, fresh mindsets and a new model are now urgent. It is essential to set the organisation free. Training your leaders is important, but not enough.
Meshed and Relational models offer the next stage, integrating people and structures in flexible ways to release more of the organisation's intelligence.
We have the expertise. Help is available.
For you, this may feel like a leap into the unknown.
For us, the tools for living systems design are known, familiar and proven.
It is well-known that many shamanistic cultures experience direct connections with the spirits of plants and animals. Assuming that you don’t regard that as illusion or projection, you might ask - what is that for us and for today’s world?
There are “modern shamans” – people who work with that realm of connection. In fact there are many – horse whisperers, plant spirit medicine practitioners for example. There are well-known examples of people who garden in collaboration with nature, and books such as Dorothy Maclean’s “To hear the Angels Sing”, which describes how enormous vegetables were produced in the seemingly barren soils of Findhorn. Machaelle Small Wright has given in-depth accounts of how she created the Perelandra garden.
There are also stories of animals – particularly horses - being used in healing. There is a great story of one such in my Substack “A tale of a psychic horse”. I also talk about nature spirits in the “What’s Nature to you” chapter of “What makes you YOU” and the chapter on shamanism in “The Science of Possibility”.
It is an inevitable outcome of the “information field” as a central theoretical theme in both books, that our ability to connect with what animates other parts of the living world will reveal itself in many ways.”
Your body is made of cells, which form organs and other systems. Anything in the world has sub-elements. Anything in the world is also part of a larger whole. This is the nature of holons, that they are identifiable, nested elements that we can choose to focus on, as we zoom in or out to the scale that we need.
“The whole context of Relational Being is that the universe is governed by a Field of Information. This includes the relationships we have with the flow of the universe in the sense of “God”, or “The Divine” or “The Force” or any equivalent term for the spiritual context”
Relational Being Newsletter
Sign-up for our Newsletter! We promise not to spam you!
