Leadership & Sustainability

Sarah Verwei © 2013
EVOLUTIONARY Leadership for sustainability
SARAH VERWEI

Cr EaTIviTy

ART OF HOSTING &
DESIGN THINKING

ART OF HOSTING =

AN EMERGING SET OF
PRACTICES FOR
FACILITATING GROUP
CONVERSATIONS

SUPPORTED BY
PRINCIPLES THAT
MAXIMIZE COLLECTIVE
INTELLIGENCE

DESIGN THINKING =

OFFERS METHODS,
PROCESSES, TO HELP
US DEFINE
PROBLEMS,ANALYZE
INFORMATION AND
KNOWLEDGE THEN
MOVE TOWARDS
ACTION.

2 SETS OF GOALS:

1. CREATE
MEANINGFUL NEW
CONNECTIONS FOR
THE PARTICIPANTS,
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COLLABORATION,
THAT WOULD
ACCELERATE AND
AMPLIFY PROJECTS
ALREADY UNDERWAY,
OR UNCOVER NEW
POSSIBILITIES.

2. A FLOW OF 2 DAYS.

DESIGNED TO
INCREASE SELF
AWARENESS TO
DEVELOP A SHARED
UNDERSTANDING OF
THE DIFFERENT AND
COMPLEMENTARY
TALENTS, PRESENT IN
THE ROOM, TO GET TO
CO-LEARN, CO-
CREATE

ART OF HOSTING

WELCOME AND LISTEN
TO DIVERSE
VIEWPOINTS

MAXIMIZE
PARTICIPATION AND
CIVILITY

TRANSFORM
CONFLICT INTO
CREATIVE
COOPERATION

ACCELERATING
Systemic Transformation

Design, hosts, facilitating
action, learning
experiences

Working at work flow
studio a inter section of
Authentic Leadership

Sustainable Development

Collaborative community

Building in order to
accelerate the profound
transformation that is
needed in our world~

Building flexible scaffolding to
support a creative hands on,
interactive experience

Day 1:

Cultivating community
and creating shared
understanding of the
people, projects and
possibilities in the room

Day 2:

Through working
together, prototype new
possibilities, and get a
deeper sense of the
capacity of the
ecosystem.

Sensing and feeling with
every cell.

LEADERSHIP

JOY

INTUITIVE HEART

LOVE

LOVE CREATES LIFE
CHEMICALS MOVING
THROUGH THE BODY-
WE HAVE A CHOICE

WE CAN CHOOSE LOVE

TUNING IN INTO THIS
WISDOM

TUNING IN INTO A
CREATIVE FIELD

OUR NATURE = LOVE

CULTIVATING AN
INVITING HEART

TO ALLOW ITSELF INTO
A JOURNEY

HAVING NEW
RELATIONSHIPS

SHARING AND
LEARNING

POSSIBILITIES

ACTIONS

HEALTHY
CONVERSATIONS

RESPECT

OPENNESS

FRIENDLY

SYNTONY

COMPASS

CONVERSATION

LADDER

THE RIGHT PEOPLE

COLLABORATIVE

BIG PICTURE

SYSTEMS THINKERS

ACTIVELY ENGAGED
IN CREATING
CHANGE

BRING THEM
TOGETHER IN THE
RIGHT WAY

I AM LUCKY

I HAVE BEEN
SURROUNDING
MYSELF WITH THIS
COMMUNITY

BEING GENTLE WITH
MYSELF AND LIMIT
OUR JOY JOYFULL
AND PEACEFULL ,
THE KEY TO JOY IS
THE MENTAL SHIFT =
THE EXPERIENCE OF
LOVE

HAPPINEZ, HEALTH,
LOVE AND JOY

LEVEL 1 SYNTONY LADDER:

WHAT IS MY LIFE,S
PURPOSE?

WHAT ARE MY
TALENTS?

WHAT IS THE MEANING
TO LIFE?

AM I listening with every
cell of my being?

Personal sustainability

Level 2: socio-cultural sustainability

What common cares
brings us together?

Shared vision?

What do we want to
create?

What do we need to
learn?

Deep dialogues

collaborations

Considerateness

Empathy

Openness

Joy

Level 3: ecological sustainability

What gifts do we
receive from nature?

Listening to the
messages of all beings

Ultimate unity

Restoring relationships
& connections

Level 4: evolutionary sustainability

Learning to read the
patterns of change of
which we are a part of.
Hear the rhythms of life

Cultivating our ability to
play our own piece

Sing and dance our
path into existence in
harmony with the
cosmic creation

How ?

Activity?

Our work
our life

Frame insights:

Embody patterns of
nature

Systems thinking into
systems feeling

Integration of the
rational intuitive thinking

3 principles of holism

Holistic paradigm

Complex systems

Consciousness

Information

Energy and matter

Unitary system
evolution

Living environments
influences our creativity

Time- in

My little son Senna told
me we need to let go
the concept of time out
and use time in = time
to give a big hugg and
smile and feeling
comfortable and safe

Human biospheric sphere

New identity

Wij leren van onze
kinderen

Deze generatie begrijpt
beter wat sociaal zijn
betekent dan wij

Kinderen troosten en
warmte geven is
basisbehoefte altijd

Being in nature

Sensing and being

Expressing authentic self

Listening beyond
words

Sensing with the whole
being

Expression of human
being

An envolving humanity

An integration of full
human capacities

Systems being =
systems livings

The journey = the
transformative learning
process of expansion of
consciousness

From awareness to
embodiment

Systems being

Living a new
consciousness

Metareflections

Instant communications

To live lightley, joyfully,
peacefully and
meaningfull

This is an inside job

Systainability is a
learning journey

Empathy and love

Human family

relationships

Systems being

Syntony quest
• www.syntonyquest.org

Humanity = one

Nourished

Sustained

Before we can change
the way we live

We need to change
ourselves

Process of recovering

By living a new
consciousness

Meta reflections

Instant communications

Organisational
transformation and
social change

Connection from head,heart, hands?

Move from teaching
systems to creating the
conditions for
experiencing and living
systems

Creating a mood

Generative

Strategic

The connections through
life are the experiences
and reflections, this
involves a life long
learning

Commitment to integrate
cognition and emotion

Systems feeling

Connecting to our
emotions and will

Being able to make the
emotional connection

Seeing has an
emotional connection

Tranlating ideas into
action

2 types of systems
thinkers

1. those who cognitivly
understand and talk the
systems talk

2. those who appreciate
and can feel what it
means to embrace a
systems view

System feeling

Face the challenge to
bridge the gap between
our technological
intelligence , social
cultural and ethical
intelligence to use
technologies for the
greates good

A call for participation
innovating a future of
peace

Abundance partnership

Translating ideas into
action

How to practice conversation?

Move

To a living and
experiencing system

Feel our physical space

Our tone of voice

Facial and body
expression

Be fully present in a
conversation

conversation

conversation

conversation

Systems thinking
into systems feeling

A big moving picture

Ethical perspective

To create knowledge

Understandig

integrating

Bridges to approaches
by using both analysis
& synthesis

Combining synthesis &
analysis

From cognitive
perspective

Patterns of change

Why, what question?

Systems thinking
a new way of seeing

A cell

An organism

A society or a galaxy

A gate opening up

A system = a set of
interconnected
elements that form a
whole, show properties

From the Greek:”
synhistanai”

= to place together

Opportunities for
exploring

Thinking in terms rather
than structures of
processes of
relationships of
interconnections

Reflecting on my journey
of learning

How to become fully me

A dynamic flow

Interactions

Archetypes

Theories

Not enough to sufficient

Critical rational path
methods and useful
tools

Systems thinking into
systems feeling:

The beginning –
transformative process

Leading to: expansion
of consciousness

New ways of learning &
the emergence

Systems thinking
into systems feeling

All our relations

Playfully engaged in a
life long creativity

Remembering how to
be curious enquire
reconnection

Harmonize with
patterns of change

Learning to listen to and
change

Play

Play

Play

Play

Listen and harmonize



Embodyment of
evolutionary leadership

Heraclitus

“everything flows”

Proces orientation
embraced by system
thinking

Abundance mental
model

Higer purpose

Ecologiess of
innovation

Systems feelings

Evolutionary leadership

Systems being

Systems thinking

A systems paradigm as
coherent framework of
thought

1975 Laszlo came to
existence

Keywords evolutionary leadership

Aware of potential to
develop a general theory
or organized complexity

Pioneered by organismic
biologist

Enriched by gestalt
psychologist

Ecologist

Capra, 1996 one hand

The other hand:
Scientists 1920”
developments in other:
engineering<
information< theory<
management<
cybernetics

Recognition as a relevant
useful way of
understanding and acting
in the world

Biological technical
origins

From systems thinking
into systems being:

The evolution of our
way to seeing and living
in the world

International Society of Systems
Science ( ISSS)

EVOLUTION OF OUR WAY
TO SEEING AND LIVING
IN THE WORLD

1920, SCIENTISTS

1975 ( LASZLO)

GENERAL THEORY OF
ORGANIZED
COMPLEXITY

1937: Introduction

Ludwig von Bertalanffy,
emerging systems idea

( GTS)

GENERAL SYSTEMS
THEORY: HAMMOND
1997:2

1954: together with Ralph
Gerard and Anatol
Rapoport, James Miller,
Kenneth Boulding
established the Society for
the Advancement of general
system theory.

How can we connect?

Everything is possible

How can we connect?

We are to fragmented
so we need to enter it
through music, dance to
a spirit~

We get signals and
perceptions and it is
now an evolution

We can change the
direction

It is about the deeper
brothers we are
oneness

Connections are real

Through music, writing,
dancing, meditating we
reach the field

The idea

Everyone follows

Everyone leads is
powerful

Reflections of the
nature

For the good of the
whole

is an ever changing flux
of interconnections that
seek to intentionally
create the conditions for
the emergence of a
better future~ quote of
Peter Merry of the
Wisdom University


The embodiment of
systems being

Creating new realities

Learning how to shape
the future

Creating a domain to
deepen understanding
of reality and
participating

No longer victims of
circumstances but:
participating in creating
new circumstances

multilevelness

Dabrowski

System theory

Ontwikkelingsnivo,s

Emotionele ontwikkeling

Ego centrisme naar
altruisme naar proces
van uiteenvallen

Gaat samen met een
innerlijk conflict, dat is
normaal = gezond
proces

Positive desintegration

Syntony compass:

Syntony conversation

Coming together~
turning
together~suspension~
internal listening
accepting difference
mutual trust building~
dialogue~building
common
grond~confronting each
others assumptions,
reveal feeling~

Metalogue~thinking and
feeling as a group~
building shared
assumptions culture~

4 practices of syntony

No discussions or
advocay = competitions
& conviction- no dialetic
= examing
opposites~no debate =
resolving by logic=
beating down

Concept of Syntony:

Listening to the rhythm
of change learning how
to play our own melody
in ways that harmonize
with the larger piece =
zingeving wie/wat is er
nog meer?

It is possible to elicit
harmoneous patterns of
change in ourselves, in
others, in our broader
environment

Purposefully and
consciously &
intentionally

Tune into useful frequencies

We can learn to find and
create resonant processes
with the dynamics of those
things we interact.

In its highest form, syntony
becomes a natural way of
being and becoming with
the world and is effortless,
spontaneous, as breathing

We can re-learn of them
how to live as a system of
syntony. Our mission, our
identity and who I am?

It is the ability to read the
environment, to listen to
messages, to pay attention
with hightened sensitivity,
this confered evolutionary
advantage on creatures
whose survival needs were
based on inter connection
and inter dependence

Action:

Changing course

Orientating yourself

Navigating through chaos

Re orienting to
sustainability patterns of
change

Re-aligning with
sustainable processes of
transformation are
challenges!

Strong sense of syntony

Ability to engage in
complex learning

Through effort and
practice we can learn to
navigate in any of 3
ways :

1.computer, navigational
technologies

A you are here
technology, simple and
easy to use

Thanks to Kathia Lazlo _ leadership for sustainability

Sarah Verwei
Catalyst, Facilitator, Coach & Ambassador
+31 6 507 483 33
Skype: synergie63
sarahverwei@gmail.com
Facebook : Work Flow Studio

With special thanks to Dr. Kathia Laszlo for her
inspirational Leadership of Saybrook,s Project X
Thanks for the connection and
collaboration with Syntony Quest

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