1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

8. 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

9. 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