Exploring Methods of Generatively Iterating Our Social System Map

How do we share and invite people into this mapping potential without coercion, w/o wasting people’s time on annoying word-smithing debates, and w/o simply reinforcing a status-quo definition of reality that we may want to be moving away from? In a way that invites curiosity, where the process itself generates more insight into the community and the broader systems the community is interested in changing. In a way that inspires people to care more about one another, to want to work together on challenges large and small, and to care about keeping the map evolving and up to date?

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Amplifying Sameness & Damping Difference

Amplifying Sameness & Damping Difference Something that triggers me quite a lot is when people unconsciously (and sometimes intentionally) amplify sameness. It’s one of those harmless-seeming but insidious, nearly invisible, unconsciously destructive dynamics that’s way too prevalent in certain flavors of change-making cultures. What do I mean by ‘Amplifying Sameness’? For example: One person says…

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