Awareness-based Action Research: Making Systems Sense and See Themselves

Scharmer, Otto; Pomeroy, Eva; Käufer, Katrin

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“…Suspending judgment, cynicism and fear, staying mindful, present to the other and to the moment gives rise to genuine meeting and transformative change. This represents a shift from ego-system to ecosystem awareness (Scharmer, 2009;Scharmer et al, 2021). Parallels in this work can be drawn to the wisdom offered by John O'Donohue (1988) for whom, turning from I-It to I-Thou is part of the battle between the ego and the soul:…”

Section: Conclusion: Turning To the Othermentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Developing attentional practices can ensure that intentions are clarified, and the welfare of the mule is considered and respected. To develop this further calls for engagement with ideas of collective responsibility; this commences a journey from ego-system to eco-system awareness (Scharmer & Kaufer, 2013;Scharmer et al, 2021) and allows for the consideration of the welfare born of dialogue and community (Figure 3a). Hence the emphasis on the dialogical encounter, on systems change, and on Action Research.…”

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“…This paper has provided insights into how both pack mules and muleteers can be brought in as members of a community of inquiry to explore more equitable and respectful ways of meeting and working together. This process must be facilitated for it is dependent on holding spaces being created in which the quality of listening and attending (Scharmer et al, 2021) deepens, such that awareness develops and feeds action for societal transformation. Despite the asymmetry of the relationship between other-than-human-animals working in tourism and the human stakeholders (Fennell, 2022), the mule is able to hold a mirror up to those willing to look into that mirror and can thereby highlight the structural and attentional violence that underlies their exploitation and poor welfare.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Action Research With and For Pack Mules

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The welfare of equines working as pack animals on treks and expeditions within the international mountain tourism industry is often severely compromised. Awareness of these issues and of what prevents owners, trekking teams and the wider industry knowing and attending to the equine and to equine welfare has been advanced through a sustained research and development initiative and Action Research project focusing on the international mountain tourism industry in the Moroccan High Atlas. An approach based on Theory U and on the development of co-seeing, co-sensing, and co-creating journeys has allowed deeper levels of awareness to be accessed and developed. Shifting the quality of attention, of meeting, and of dialogue has allowed eco-system awareness to develop, where previously silo-thinking and ego-system awareness had prevailed. This has allowed muleteering practice to evolve away from practices based on control and domination towards practices informed by the dialogical encounter. This paper will explore the role of Action Research in developing the awareness of the tourism industry and the communities of practice it supports. Absencing as a barrier to awareness and the approaches available to overcome it will be explored. A key distinction will be made between the outcomes emerging from the co-creative projects arising from genuine meeting and dialogue, and the outcomes arising from the failure to meet and dialogue genuinely, a failure rooted in the exploitation embedded in hierarchical relationships.

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Section: Conclusion: Turning To the Othermentioning

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“…Social Field as a Lens for Understanding Activist Groups Scharmer et al (2022) describe the social field as "the entirety of the social system with an emphasis on the source conditions that give rise to patterns of thinking, conversing, and organizing, which in turn produce practical results" (p. 5). Figure 1 shows the three key levels of a social field that exist with visible and invisible dimensions.…”

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“…What is not visible is the evolving "source conditions," or the level and quality of awareness from which these activist social systems form and that give rise to their quality of relating to one another. Scharmer et al (2022) describe these as the interior conditions of individuals and the collective interior condition that influences and shapes a social field. This invisible dimension is often missing in social movement literature, as it relates to what is happening "in-between" group members, which is not fully perceptible until it is brought into awareness.…”

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2023

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This article will explore evolving thoughts on how the social field can be an effective lens to address relational tensions within activist groups. Gobby (2020) defines relational tensions as the ideological and social tensions that emerge in an activist group due to power inequalities, which are significant internal barriers for these groups to achieve their goals. I will draw on social movement literature and Scharmer’s (2018) concept of social fields to show how the source conditions of the various individuals that make up these groups affect the quality of how they relate to each other, which give birth to practices and results that either align with their values or create conflictual tensions that can hold these groups back. Through a personal case study, I intend to show how, by shifting an activist group's social field towards one that places relationality at the forefront, these groups can improve how they work together and ultimately avoid breaking apart.

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Reframing resilience as a systemic issue: Meta‐competencies that transform individuals and learning ecologies

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2024

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Educational systems in Australia are currently in a state of flux and disruption, with student mental health and engagement at crisis levels. Educators need help keeping students engaged and providing the skills and competencies to navigate uncertain futures. Addressing this challenge, our study examines a proposed set of meta‐competencies (or systemic competencies) required for a systems reboot within our educational institutions. These meta‐competencies are agency, adaptability, creativity, compassion, interbeing, self‐awareness and reflexivity. This study analyses the application of these meta‐competencies for transformative resilience or transilience in a secondary school setting, examining how systems awareness and self‐awareness cannot be separated from the rest of the curricula. Using participatory action research methodologies and awareness‐based systems change, this research demonstrates that agency, self‐awareness and systems awareness can engage students in profound ways to create a new generation of systemic changemakers.

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Awareness-based Action Research: Making Systems Sense and See Themselves

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