The document outlines plans to establish a Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) community in Italy called SoL Italia. SoL Italia aims to spread awareness of SoL principles and practices through networking, training events, publishing Italian translations of related works, and sponsoring large-scale change projects. Initial activities include growing the founding community, obtaining official SoL recognition, establishing a non-profit organization, launching a website and newsletter, holding monthly meetings, and conducting interviews with national leaders. The goal is to facilitate Italy's contribution to the global evolutionary shift toward more conscious organizations.

1. New Community
Society for Organizational Learning
Italia
Declaration of Intent
October 11, 2011

2. 1. Our Intent
Starting from the context of the thinking which is emerging in the
twenty-first century, and from the project of the global evolution of SoL,
we intend to give birth to an open, unifying, horizontal, participatory
and generative organization.
An organization in which to apply the systemic disciplines of SoL and its
global partners, to pursue learning and organizational well-being in
every area of life.
An organization in which the theory and the practice find the right union,
to become a major national hub of the economical, sociological,
psychological and management‟s culture of the twenty-first century, and
a real agent of change.

3. 1. Our Intent - follows
We intend to propose a real and concrete change, and put a strong
focus on communication to pursue a wide dissemination of the
messages and the practices of SoL and its global partners, like
Presencing Institute, Team Accademy, Tellus Institute, World Cafè
Network, etc.
And we intend to keep in mind and deepen the cultural particularities
that characterize Italy, which are also been a factor of world-class
excellence in historical periods like the Renaissance, in order to identify
which are the positive forces we can now work on more closely.
To do this we intent to join several people, corporations and
organizations that demonstrate a propensity toward the practice of
humanistic, systemic and evolutionary management.

4. Italy evolutionary context: cultural, educational, organizational, managerial, civic,
Evolution of post-Taylorist thinking: innovation management MIX.
environmental, financial, economic, political, etc..
Evolution of post-rational thought: quantum theory, evolutionary theory,
Society SoL Italy
: people,
companies,
organizations,
institutions
systems theory, complexity theory, spiritual awakening
National Change Collection
Labs sponsored Evolutionary
by primary Management
organizations translated books
sensitive to
change
SoL and program of
distribution
Italia
System
Annual training
courses co- International
organized with retreats co-
SoL and its organized with
international SoL and its
partners and global partners
national schools
Founding SoL – Sol Evolution 2.0 – SoL Europe - Presencing Institute – Dialogos
ALIA Institute – Berkana Institute - Art of Hosting – Barrett Value Center

5. 2. Who we are
We‟re a group of people with the passion of organizational learning,
humanistic management, innovation and change.
We have met different times since May 2011 and now we have the
good will to embrace new perspectives of leadership, connection, and
organizational evolution.
Several of us want to create a strong community in Italy sharing
examples and experiences of organizational performance involving
different leaders at different levels, developing engagement across
multicultural environments,
The professionals of the group are all experienced trainers, coaches,
counsellors, facilitators and experts in change management, linked also
to different associations and research groups about complexity and
systems thinking.

6. 2. Who we are - follows
Many of us published several articles and books on these themes.
All the people present have a strong passion for recent evolutionary
and leadership methodologies, and are inspired by the participatory
management and by the need to work to foster a healthy and concrete
Human and Social Development.
At the moment the people who have already given their support for the
founding of the community, listed below, are over 50, while the total
active contacts with interested people are nearly 150.
With the people there are three not for profit organizations as founders
of the community :
- World is Changing,
- European Society of Ecopsicology,
- ManagerZen.

7. 2. Who we are - follows
Alberto Bazzan Francesco Mondora
Alessandra Dadalt Gabriella Vigo
Alessandro Minelli Gerardo De Luzenberger
Alessandro Rossi Gian Carlo Manzoni
Angelo Caruso Gianluca Palomba
Anna Borellini Gianmarco Bor
Antonio Memoli Giovanni Soffietti
Barbara Principi Giuseppe Gerardo Ciarambino
Bruna Putzulu Giuseppe Mineo
Carla Galanti Giuseppe Monti
Claudio Vettor Giustiniano La Vecchia
Daniela Mattia Gregorio Di Leo
Dino Grappuso Jacopo Nicelli
Egidio Missarelli Lara Elli
Elena Franzini Leonardo Previ
Enrico Girardi Lorenzo Campese
Fabio Dedola Luca Melcore
Fabio Fantuzzi Luigi Spiga
Fabrizio Toscano Luisa Carcangiu Bayre
Federica Ghetti Luisa Ferrario
Fernando dell‟Agli Massimo Garau

8. 2. Who we are - follows
Marcella Danon
Marco Gargiulo
Marinella de Simone
Mario Gastaldi
Martina Cinicola
Massimo Vavalle
Maurizio Testa
Michele Mondora
Myriam Ines Giangiacomo
Nicola Cocco
Paola De Vecchi
Paolo Polverosi
Pierandrea Vacca
Roberto Casini
Sabrina Cantono
Sandra Capri
Stefano Dini
Stefano Monti

9. 3. Why we are doing this
We strongly believe in the possibility of giving a substantial contribution
to the emerging evolutionary shift, at all levels: micro, meso, macro e
mundo. This shift is grounded on an the emerging culture increasingly
oriented to new levels of awareness, that moves the attention structure
from the egocentric and ethnocentric level to ecocentric and
worldcentric.
The evolutionary shift can become real mainly through the aggregation
of Community of Practice able to address real challenges, through the
adoption of new social technologies - proposed by SoL and its
global partners like Presencing Institute - as tools for a
sustainable evolution that starts necessarily from self.

10. 3. Why we are doing this - follows
In today‟s world, individuals and organizations specifically need to
acquire new evolutionary skills, especially oriented to the dimension of
being and becoming and grounded on humanistic, systemic and
transpersonal approaches.
In our hearts, the SoL community is the proper context in which to grow
and help others growing, where to share significant experiences for the
benefits of the whole community, where to develop new knowledge and
cultivate those states of presencing, necessary to let the emerging
future emerge.

11. 4. Our Vision, Mission and Values
Mission:
• Translating the values ​promoted by SOL in new forms of
organization of work and life to improve personal, business, social
and global life.
• Addressing the individual and collective action towards a greater
awareness of the implications and consequences of every action.
• Arousing the attention towards a broader view of reality, 'for
processes and not events'.
• Educating toward a culture of encounter, dialogue and collaboration.
• Promoting mindfulness and awareness of the interconnected nature
of the world in order to know how to open up to the future and how to
draw emerging sustainable and effective processes.

12. 4. Our Vision, Mission and Values - follows
Vision:
• Life is ever changing and the human being has an important role in
the evolutionary process, as an individual and as a species.
• The development of mindfulness leads to recognize the richness
and distinctiveness of our own individual nature.
• The awareness of interconnection, which regulates every aspect of
reality in which we live, can prepare to meet each other - human and
nonhuman - with attention, respect and empathy.
• From the combination of these two stages, the individual and
collective personal growth, arise new forms of organization in
Economy, Labour and Social Affairs, consistent with values ​that
promote life and well-being of all Earth's ecosystem.

13. 4. Our Vision, Mission and Values - follows
Values:
• Collaboration – attention to the mutual needs.
• Sustainability – consistency with the ecosystem‟s parameters.
• Common sense – intelligence aimed at individual and collective wellbeing.
• Sharing – awareness of common destiny.
• Compassion – the ability to resonate emotionally to the existence of others.
• Responsibility – ability to recognize and accept the consequences of our
own thoughts and actions toward society, humanity, sentient beings,
Creation.
• Constructive Critical sense - the ability to argue, to refute without
condemning and excommunicating.
• Flexibility - opening to the unexpected, ability to adapt to an open and non-
mechanistic future.
• Creativity – in developing new forms, new processes for a living, all, well.
• Beauty – as an „external‟ indicator of the quality of our own actions.
• Joy – as an „internal‟ indicator of the quality of our own actions.

14. 5. Who we are going to connect and
how we think to become a big group
Our intent is to talk to a wide range of publics, well aware of the complexity that
this option necessary means. We believe that it is not the time anymore, for
closed elitist circles; therefore, we need to be open and available to facilitate a
memetic diffusion of evolutionary meta-principles on which individual and
organization evolution is grounded.
On one side, natural interlocutors for us are “immune carriers” and testimonials
of the emerging global awakening virus that is spreading worldwide. They are
the change agents diffusing the new post-rationalistic and post-tayloristic
paradigms of XXI century, as Systemic Thinking and its evolutions, Theory of
Complexity, the Evolution Theory applied to social science, Management 2.0,
etc.
On the other side, our intent is not to marginalize no one, but include any group
or people, by activating proper communication channels with any individual,
professional, organization, institution, always respecting their identity and
evolutionary level, characterized by different values, languages, tools and
worldviews.

15. 5. Who we are going to connect and
how we think to become a big group - follows
In order to give a strong contribution to the goal of spreading SoL
Evolution culture and activities, we wish to adopt several methods and
tools as: community building initiatives, social networking, interviews to
leaders and testimonials, training and convivial events, diffusion of
articles, books, videos, also connecting with publishers and
editors available for the translation of significant works from their
original language in Italian.
We intend to use our enthusiasm, creativity and imagination -
characteristic of Italian culture - in order to facilitate the viral
diffusion of SoL initiatives in our country and possibly in the
world.

16. 6. The association, the governance,
the location and the communication tools
Legal form
Association not recognized. It 'the most straightforward form of
association that allows direct participation of all members and
associates. Registration between the not-for-profit organizations.
Members
They include six categories of members with different membership
fees:
- Institutional organizations: national, regional and local.
- Companies: multinationals and large enterprises, small and
medium-sized enterprises
- Not-for-profit organizations: foundations, associations
- Individual members: ordinary, young people.
The input of members to the association will be presented by another
member. The voting rights will be extended to all categories of
members.

17. 6. The association, the governance, the
location and the communication tools - follows
Governance
Governing Board: composed of 7 members elected by the general
assembly of all members to ensure the best representation of the
different categories
Advisory Board: composed of 7 members to be appointed from
among persons of prominent national level. The members shall be
appointed by the shareholders on the proposal of the Board of
Directors.
Scientific Committee: composed of 7 members to be appointed from
among experts in different topics of SoL and its global partners. The
members shall be appointed by the shareholders on the proposal of
the Governing Board.

18. 6. The association, the governance, the
location and the communication tools - follows
Location
The national headquarters is in Milan and will initially be domiciled at
a temporary office.
Communication Tools
Creation of the website, through which initiatives and all
communication will be updated with members and potential members.
Preparation of a monthly digital newsletter.
Continuous and dynamic presence on social networks (LinkedIn,
Facebook) through the opening pages and groups.

19. 7. What do we want to do and
how we are starting
With the SoL Italy intend gradually to develop the following
activities:
1. constantly treating the growth of the community with off-line and on-
line activities that involve people,
2. promote at national level the culture, values, projects and practices
of SoL and its global partners,
3. to maximize international relations within the SoL of many
community members in order to facilitate the exchange of
experiences,
4. io collaborate in the organization and the attraction of participating
in SoL conferences and meetings in Europe and worldwide,
5. to organize regular meetings and events of national level,
6. to organize in Italy seminars and meetings of the Global SoL and its
global partners,
7. to collaborate for Italian edition and diffusion of books by authors of
SoL and its global partners,

20. 7. What do we want to do and
how we are starting - follows
8. to undertake research on issues of Systems Thinking, the Learning
Organization, the Presencing, Leadership, etc..,
9. to promote the birth in Italy of the national branches of schools like
the Global Academy of SoL and the U School,
10. to promote large-scale change projects (Change Labs) with
particular reference to the themes and methodologies of
Sustainability and Capitalism 3.0.
For the initial development of the community we’ll do the following
activities:
1. maximum dissemination of the project to reach a critical mass of
the founders of the community between people, companies and
organizations,
2. to start the process of official recognition by the Founding SoL to
become an officially recognized SoL community,
3. the formal establishment of a not for profit society with its governing
bodies,

21. 7. What do we want to do and
how we are starting - follows
4. creation of a "container" by opening a website, an office, and
activating a newsletter,
5. promotion monthly meetings to welcome new participants and
strengthen the coordination group (the first retreat will be on 14-15th
of October ),
6. identification of some suitable places for meetings in places of
nature in the areas near Milan and Rome,
7. organization of a first official presentation to media specialists and
generalists, to the business world and academia, to the world of
culture, in the first half of 2012,
8. establishment of a team among those who have studied and are
using the Theory U to do 30-50 interviews with national leaders in
various business, philosophical, artistic, political fields.