Wow, Lana. This is so intensely rich. It's something I'll have to come back to over time to really digest.
For now, what's really standing out to me, having done a lot of work in New Zealand and Hawaii, are the deep connections with some key cultural concepts and ways of being that seem consistent across the Austronesian diaspora, and yet are expressed in richly varied ways (like whanaungatanga, utu, and wairua in Māori).
And then you get very different but equally rich cultural landscapes in places like the Basque Country, with a deep tradition of egalitarianism, direct democracy, autonomy, etc. (In a language where, for example, the root for words like "tool", "ax", and "hammer" is the word for "stone," showing just how far back the language goes, even in its modern form.)
So I've been thinking a lot the last few years about how the future of social change and system-change is actually to be found in the past, in our roots.
Tokona Te Raki, the Māori futures collective in New Zealand, has developed Te Korekoreka, a distinctly Māori future-making framework (https://www.tekorekoreka.co.nz/).
Melanie Goodchild and the Anishnaabeg teachers she works with are integrating modern systems thinking with traditional Anishinaabe ways of making meaning and relating among ourselves, and with others, and with the earth.
In the Basque Country, the team at Aranzatzuab is leading the way toward more generative and participatory forms of governance, drawing on the deep democratic, humanistic, and cooperative traditions of the Basque people.
I'm seeing more of these culturally grounded approaches emerging around the world, and I'm super curious what a distinctly Filipino approach to system change might look like based on what you're sharing here, or if one already exists.
(And now that I've written so much in one comment, I think I'll do an article exploring this trend :)
Ohhhh Russ I am not yet done with my rabbit hole and these ones are certainly keeping me in an expanding spiral 🥰🥰🥰🥰 I love it! I will check all these out and yes I have been contemplating on Filipino systems change practices. One that I am exploring is around the “balangays” and the mother boat as basic unit of governance and social life.
Wow, Lana. This is so intensely rich. It's something I'll have to come back to over time to really digest.
For now, what's really standing out to me, having done a lot of work in New Zealand and Hawaii, are the deep connections with some key cultural concepts and ways of being that seem consistent across the Austronesian diaspora, and yet are expressed in richly varied ways (like whanaungatanga, utu, and wairua in Māori).
And then you get very different but equally rich cultural landscapes in places like the Basque Country, with a deep tradition of egalitarianism, direct democracy, autonomy, etc. (In a language where, for example, the root for words like "tool", "ax", and "hammer" is the word for "stone," showing just how far back the language goes, even in its modern form.)
So I've been thinking a lot the last few years about how the future of social change and system-change is actually to be found in the past, in our roots.
Tokona Te Raki, the Māori futures collective in New Zealand, has developed Te Korekoreka, a distinctly Māori future-making framework (https://www.tekorekoreka.co.nz/).
Melanie Goodchild and the Anishnaabeg teachers she works with are integrating modern systems thinking with traditional Anishinaabe ways of making meaning and relating among ourselves, and with others, and with the earth.
In the Basque Country, the team at Aranzatzuab is leading the way toward more generative and participatory forms of governance, drawing on the deep democratic, humanistic, and cooperative traditions of the Basque people.
I'm seeing more of these culturally grounded approaches emerging around the world, and I'm super curious what a distinctly Filipino approach to system change might look like based on what you're sharing here, or if one already exists.
(And now that I've written so much in one comment, I think I'll do an article exploring this trend :)
Ohhhh Russ I am not yet done with my rabbit hole and these ones are certainly keeping me in an expanding spiral 🥰🥰🥰🥰 I love it! I will check all these out and yes I have been contemplating on Filipino systems change practices. One that I am exploring is around the “balangays” and the mother boat as basic unit of governance and social life.