Anticipation + Wisdom = Resilience - presentation by David Adams on combining Tony Hodgson's world system model with the native American wisdom council for wiser decision-making.

1. Anticipation + Wisdom
= Resilience
The World & Wisdom Game
A collaborative project in Scotland by International
Futures Forum, Decision Integrity & Adams Associates

2. Too complex to understand Too subtle to control
How can LOVE this home of ours WISELY?

3. World
System
Model
Wheel
of
Wisdom

4. Strategic Resilience
Capacity to be
READY FOR ANYTHING
without having to be
READY FOR EVERYTHING
Cultivating strategic foresight with wise counsel
“The wisdom of any decision is proportional to the range
and depth of context that informs it.” – Max Boisot
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6. System potential for dynamic balance

7. IFF World Game
Making the Connections

8. Planetary
Boundaries
?
?

9. Illustrating Synchronous Failure
Dominant
Community Worldviews
Simultaneous:
Resilience Health and
Wellbeing
• Climate catastrophe
Governance
wrecks infrastructure
and Law Food and • Financial failure causes
Agriculture
economic collapse
Wealth • Crop failure causes
and Power Markets food supply conflict
and Trade
Habitat and Energy and Trigger:
Infrastructure Raw Materials
• Governance failure ,
Water Climate
Change Impact
• Public health crises,
Dependency Planetary
Limits • Community
breakdown.
• Popular revolt

10. A Dynamic Tipping Point?
PLANET HEALTH
HUMAN GROWTH 2012?
Where are we now?
2000 2030

11. What gives resilience?
Variety! - of viable responses to the unforeseeable
Resourcefulness! – adaptable, creative leadership
Curiosity! – power to question in range and depth
Play! – experiments with radical thinking and ideas
How can the intelligence of variety meld to the
integrity of collective consensus?
This is the nub of the Game...

12. Variety
of
challenge
Variety
of
response

14. 8 Guardian of
7 Strategist
Roles for the Transformation
Watchfulness for
Foresight, courage and Wheel of Wisdom values, energy and
thought through integrity for now and the
commitment long term
6 Oracle 1 Genius
Mastery of timing; Precocious, innocent, ima
learning in the web of ginative, convention-
interconnections defying creativity
5 Steward 2 Peacemaker
Protecting, cultivating and Clear perceiving of what is
renewing resources for real – evident or hidden –
endurance without judgement
4 Pathfinder 3 Pioneer
Collective purpose and Wary, powerful, adventur
story, gathered and ous, challenging in
focused through thick and response to need
thin Adams Associates (Scotland)
david@adamsassociates.com

15. People seriously at play
“It takes a long time to become this young!”
-Pablo Picasso

16. A World & Wisdom Game Cycle
1
Commissioning
Project
7 Outcome 2 Client Briefing
Appraisal and Research
6 Critical 3 World System
Priorities and Horizon
Task Forces Scanning
5 Reflective 4 Futures
Wisdom Potential
Council Impact Review
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17. A Journey to a Resilient Society ?
Ready for Anything
Transformative Resilience
Synchronous Failure
Single Issue Obsession
Ignorance and Neglect

18. Can the next
generations do it
better?

19. Life attracts the positive!
Our best responses arise from massive challenges.....
So play your way creatively into a better future!
Se e k playful for ms
that ge ne r ate s e r ious
r e s ults
www.inte rnationalfuture s for um.com

20. Anticipation + Wisdom
= Resilience