1. Research the Issue 2. Articulate the Challenge 3. Invite People to Address the Challenge 4. Parse the Challenge 5. Brainstorm Each Aspect 6. Integrate Learnings 7. Decide on Next Steps Methodology for Addressing Complex Issues

Sense Learn: Facts, Capacities Suspend Converse Understand Question Reflect Allow Time to Let Go/Let Come Involve Others Intend Resource Let-Self- Change Offer Collaborate Imagine Decide Follow Through Coping With Complexity

Your Senses, Experiences & Memories Your Culture: Language Peer pressure Ideas Educational, Political and Social Systems Your Genes: Instincts Hormones Metabolism Emotions Neural Structure Appearance You: Your Knowledge Your Beliefs Your Imaginings Your Behaviours Your Actions We Are Not What We Think

indigenous capacities: appreciating Inviting empathizing paying attention inducing (drawing out) deducing reflecting sensing intuiting offering opening suspending (letting go) letting emerge conceiving patterning integrating (seeing the whole) collaborating resolving Communities in My Future-State Novel “ The Only World We Know” Explorers STUDY Interpreters TEACH Inventors IMAGINE Connectors DISTRIBUTE Designers CRAFT Actors ‘ RECREATE’ Generators CREATE Nurturers CULTIVATE Menders SUSTAIN discovery understanding ideas models ‘ goods’ Well-being fun

Innovative & Adaptive Solutions & Approaches Invitations Articulated Unmet Needs Passion Gift Purpose 1 2 3 4 5 Appeal to Reflected in Attract/ Filter Solution Network Members Develop Finding People to Make a Living With Individuals

make poor time/money tradeoffs overbuy others’ services instead of DIY have to work harder to pay for these services have less time to do things ourselves have to buy even more from others acknowledge that our time is precious do things we love, and which are our respon- sibility, ourselves become better at doing these things save money have more time need to work less invest more time mentoring, parenting, coaching happier, healthier more responsible & competent citizens invest more time gifting, sharing, and in peer production lower social costs to society fewer social problems in society produce more useful goods & services at zero or minimal cost invest more time showing, teaching greater capacity and skills among citizenry more self-sufficient citizens less need to buy goods and services from others (vicious cycle trigger) (virtuous cycle trigger) 1 2 4 3 5 How the Economy Works, And How It Should

Public policies & programs that encourage: Generation of genuine wealth and well- being Production eco-effectiveness Shift to clean energy Reduction of waste and pollution Water protection and conservation Production of healthy food Conservation, protection & restoration of nature Sustainable cities Global sustainability Fiscal reform (tax shifting, end to corporate subsidies) Respect for all life on Earth Coordinated grassroots programs & models that facilitate: Sustainability information exchanges Sustainable entrepreneurship Simple sustainable living networks Sustainable intentional communities Personal actions you do one-on-one: Listen, learn and teach others; Volunteer Stop at one & encourage others to do likewise Be a role model Infect others with your spirit and passion Personal actions as part of community: Share your expertise & knowledge Find and do meaningful work Use less; Become less dependent Pioneer Personal actions within the political system: Be an activist Personal learning & preparedness: Learn and practice critical thinking Re-learn how to imagine Reconnect with your senses & instincts Be good to yourself Personal Change Grassroots Collective Change Institutional Change What You Can Do What Others Must Do With Us How to Save the World: What You Can Do

Public policies & programs that encourage:

Generation of genuine wealth and well-

being

Production eco-effectiveness

Shift to clean energy

Reduction of waste and pollution

Water protection and conservation

Production of healthy food

Conservation, protection & restoration of

nature

Sustainable cities

Global sustainability

Fiscal reform (tax shifting, end to corporate

subsidies)

Respect for all life on Earth

Coordinated grassroots programs & models that facilitate:

Sustainability information exchanges

Sustainable entrepreneurship

Simple sustainable living networks

Sustainable intentional communities

Personal actions you do one-on-one:

Listen, learn and teach others;

Volunteer

Stop at one & encourage others to

do likewise

Be a role model

Infect others with your spirit and

passion

Personal actions as part of community:

Share your expertise & knowledge

Find and do meaningful work

Use less; Become less dependent

Pioneer

Personal actions within the political system:

Be an activist

Personal learning & preparedness:

Learn and practice critical thinking

Re-learn how to imagine

Reconnect with your senses &

instincts

Be good to yourself

Sense Probe Listen See Focus Attention Read Intuit Let-Self-Open Appreciate Learn/Discover Develop Capacity Make Sense Play Imagine Speculate Entertain Interpret Synthesize Integrate Create Model Try Let-Self-Believe Let-Self-Be-Empowered React/Respond Understand Let-Self-Change* Act Realize* Let Emerge Collaborate Innovate Respond Instinctively Respond Subconsciously Relate Tell Stories Show Help Imagine* Inform Bring to Attention Entertain Contextualize Add Insight Incite/Provoke* Synthesize Suggest Create Model Enable Facilitate Speaker/Relater Listener/Reader Collaboration Conversation A Taskonomy for Making Sense of and Coping with Complexity

The Natural Enterprise Cycle (and related graphics) Identifying Unmet Market Needs Enhancing Entrepreneurial Capacities Finding Enterprise Partners Exercising Responsibility & Sustainability Conducting Extraordinary Research Applying Collective Imagination Sustaining Continuous Innovation Building Powerful Networks