Unatoč aktualnim reklamama i sloganima, svijet se ne mijenja jednu po jednu osobu. Mijenja se kako se stvaraju mreže odnosa među ljudima koji otkrivaju da dijele zajednički cilj i viziju onoga što je moguće. Ovo je dobra vijest za one od nas koji namjeravamo promijeniti svijet i stvoriti pozitivnu budućnost. Umjesto da brinemo o kritičnoj masi, naš posao je poticanje kritičnih veza. Ne trebamo uvjeravati velik broj ljudi da se promijene; umjesto toga, moramo se povezati sa srodnim dušama. Kroz ove odnose, razvit ćemo nova znanja, prakse, hrabrost i predanost koji vode širokoj promjeni.
No mreže nisu cijela priča. Kako mreže rastu i transformiraju se u aktivne, radne zajednice prakse, otkrivamo kako se život doista mijenja, a to je kroz pojavu. Kada se odvojeni, lokalni napori povežu jedni s drugima kao mreže , zatim ojačaju kao zajednice prakse , iznenada i iznenađujuće pojavljuje se novi sustav na većoj razini. Ovaj sustav utjecaja posjeduje kvalitete i sposobnosti koje su bile nepoznate kod pojedinaca. Nije da su bili skriveni; oni jednostavno ne postoje dok se sustav ne pojavi. Oni su svojstva sustava, a ne pojedinca, ali kad jednom dođu, pojedinci ih posjeduju. A sustav koji nastaje uvijek posjeduje veću moć i utjecaj nego što je to moguće kroz planirane, postupne promjene. Pojavljivanje je način na koji Život stvara radikalne promjene i dovodi stvari do velikih razmjera.
Od svog osnutka 1992. godine, Institut Berkana eksperimentira sa životnim ciklusom nastanka: kako živi sustavi započinju kao mreže, prelaze na namjerne zajednice prakse i razvijaju se u moćne sustave sposobne globalnog utjecaja. Kroz naš rad sa zajednicama u mnogim različitim nacijama, učimo što je moguće kada povezujemo ljude bez razlike i udaljenosti. Primjenom lekcija živih sustava i namjernim radom na nastanku i njegovom životnom ciklusu, demonstriramo kako se lokalna društvena inovacija može razmjeriti i pružiti rješenja za mnoga od najnerješivijih svjetskih pitanja—kao što su zdravlje zajednice, ekološka održivost i ekonomska samopouzdanje.
Zašto moramo razumjeti mreže
Istraživači i društveni aktivisti počinju otkrivati moć mreža i umrežavanja. Sve je veća spoznaja da su mreže novi oblik organiziranja. Dokazi o samoorganiziranim mrežama su posvuda: društveni aktivisti, terorističke skupine, narko-karteli, ulične bande, interesne skupine na webu. Iako ih sada vidimo posvuda, to nije zato što su novi oblik organiziranja. To je zato što smo uklonili naše stare paradigme koje traže hijerarhiju i mehanizme kontrole u uvjerenju da se organizacija događa samo ljudskom voljom i intervencijom.
Mreže su jedini oblik organizacije koji koriste živi sustavi na ovom planetu. Ove mreže proizlaze iz samoorganizacije, gdje pojedinci ili vrste prepoznaju svoju međuovisnost i organiziraju se na načine koji podržavaju raznolikost i održivost svih. Mreže stvaraju uvjete za nastanak, tako se život mijenja. Budući da su mreže prva faza u nastajanju, bitno je da razumijemo njihovu dinamiku i kako se razvijaju u zajednice, a zatim u sustave.
Ipak, velik dio trenutnog rada na mrežama pokazuje pristranost stare paradigme. U analizi društvenih mreža, fizički prikazi mreže nastaju mapiranjem odnosa. Ovo je korisno za uvjeravanje ljudi da mreže postoje, a ljudi su često fascinirani kada vide da mreža postaje vidljiva. Drugi mrežni analitičari imenuju uloge koje igraju članovi mreže ili prave razliku između različitih dijelova mreže, kao što su jezgra i periferija. Možda to nije namjera ovih istraživača, ali vođe često koriste njihov rad kako bi pronašli načine za manipuliranje mrežom, kako bi je koristili na tradicionalan i kontrolirajući način.
* Ono što nedostaje u ovim analizama jest istraživanje dinamike mreža:
* Zašto nastaju mreže? Koji su uvjeti koji podržavaju njihovo stvaranje?
* Što održava mrežu živom i raste? Što održava povezanost članova?
* Koja je vrsta vodstva potrebna? Zašto ljudi postaju vođe?
* Koja vrsta vodstva ometa ili uništava mrežu?
* Što se događa nakon formiranja zdrave mreže? Što je sljedeće?
Ako razumijemo ovu dinamiku i životni ciklus nastanka, što možemo učiniti kao vođe, aktivisti i društveni poduzetnici da namjerno potaknemo pojavu?
Što je Emergence?
Pojava krši toliko naših zapadnjačkih pretpostavki o tome kako se promjena događa da je često potrebno dosta vremena da se to shvati. U prirodi se promjena nikada ne događa kao rezultat unaprijed zamišljenih strateških planova od vrha prema dolje ili iz mandata bilo kojeg pojedinca ili šefa. Promjena počinje kako lokalne akcije izviru istovremeno u mnogim različitim područjima. Ako ove promjene ostanu nepovezane, ništa se ne događa izvan svake lokalne postavke. Međutim, kada se povežu, lokalne akcije mogu se pojaviti kao snažan sustav s utjecajem na globalnijoj ili sveobuhvatnijoj razini. (Globalno ovdje znači veću razinu, ne nužno cijeli planet.)
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Intrinsically connected to any concept that is emerging is looking to what stands in the way and blocks the new from arising. This is why ignorance and arrogance are both self and collectively-defeating; they prevent the respect and freedom that is necessary for true innovation and evolutionary knowledge to emerge. Attempting to control, intending results, and consciously or unconsciously forcing inherently blocks the movement of the larger "spirit", which is bringing healing, and new growth. Clinging and insisting upon former paradigms that are no longer working, meaningful, appropriate, and are even dangerous to persist in doing is counter-productive to advancement. It requires courage to turn and face what was good in the past, but is now detrimental in the present and for the future, and remain open and generous to the newly emerging. Fear of the unknown and close-mindedness keep ignorance and arrogance brokering for leverage to sway all things to the former, to the known, to controlling, to continuing to force antiquated ways of thinking and doing. And yet, we cannot manipulate our way into revelation. We can only step aside, and with open generosity step aside, and allow "the spirit", which moves all things and all of life to pass through us, both as individuals and as a collective humanity. Ground-breaking art and revolutionary innovation do not arise from predetermination, but seek revelation from higher forms of knowing. Only surrender to freedom can free us, or reveal new and emerging ways of being and knowing. We cannot truly "fight" our way to attaining freedom, anymore than we can "fight" our way to achieving love or respect. Love and respect require that they be freely bestowed and freely received.
If we truly seek a new and emerging better world, we should first look to getting out of the way, and permitting it to manifest. All true seemingly-miraclous knowledge and events, magical understanding and wonder are never forced or capped, which is exactly why they are so capable of bringing delight and joy. There is more to life than intention and force, which limit us to only knowing and also existing in the past. The new is always waiting for us; it never arises from our force or deliberate suppression. It is free, or we cause it to wither and vanish. The new would joyfully emerge if we weren't always holding it back, disallowing it from arising, or dictating to it, telling it who to be and how to be, manipulating it from the start to suit us and our limited views or selfish desires. So often, we stand in the way from all our actual and true wealth of healing that knowledge and wisdom have to graciously offer. If we learn nothing else in life, we would benefit the most from learning respect, for oneself, for all other human beings, for all animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, trees, forests, natural seeds, soil, water, rivers, oceans, air, all of creation, and natural forces and energies.
We continue to reject the essential deep and abiding respect for nature, the wisdom of natural processes and natural abundant energies, which are contained within and by our planet earth home, and are freely bestowed by our good universe to all inhabitants of earth. Nature, and knowledge contained in nature and natural processes and energies, is our most trustworthy and life-sustaining teacher that we have available to us, and right under our noses. Free energy devices do not create or store energy; they tap into existing, unlimited, zero-emmission, natural supplies provided by the universe. In rejecting and suppressing the breakthrough, ambient, free energy technological gifts of nature and natural processes, we gamble that our archaic, explosive, and lethal energy manipulations of nature and the (inflated and disappearing-unto-dust) money and power gleaned from them can and will increase our status over others, and also somehow save us and a future for the next generation and beyond. Yet, the reality is that the marketplace is no longer a viable answer to either our energy needs, environmental concerns, or even in providing true and lasting wealth. Nature is aligned with respect, health, freedom, abundance, inclusion, and continuing life. Sole reliance on trade within global monetary systems, which are ever-inflated even unto nothingness, are intrinsically anti-cooperative, and dependent upon competition that involve force, scarcity, fear, limitations, manipulations, profiteering, engineering of nature and natural processes, suffering, violence, and destruction of our natural (and cultural) world.
This competing mentality that continues to demand financial competition over, and monetary compensation from, the natural world, even though only global suffering and death is now the only possible outcome, also spiritually robs both individuals and collective human civilization of common decency, benevolence, and even sanity. We bankrupt more than just our grossly-inflated monetary currencies. Even more tragically, we bankrupt our true and lasting wealth in the natural abundance of our planet earth, and the spiritual soul of our own humanness. It is not just the physical lives of human beings, creatures, plants, crops, seeds, trees, forests, soils, rivers, oceans, and all waters that we are irrevocably losing, we are throwing away and trampling the heart and soul of our own humanity, and at grave risk of renouncing all respect for others, for love and for life. Ultimately, we will lose self-respect and dignity, and be consumed with collective and self loathing, or even worse, lose more and more conscience, open ourselves to the callous and violent harding of the heart and numbness of soul that accompanies the predatory devaluing of love and life, which can no longer feel empathy, connection, unity, or oneness with others, or even with or for oneself. These spiritual loses are preceding, and already foretell that we quickly losing the last bastion against the darkness of mounting despair that will trap all the living, both rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless in ever-increasing and spiraling-downward decadence, violence, physical and spiritual deterioration, degradation, destruction, suffering, mayhem, and death.
We cannot add to the bounty of nature; we can only limit and destroy the bountiful and abundant generosity of the universe when we are unconscious, or disregard deliberately the destructive travesties that we are doing on a global scale to our true and lasting wealth - life and love, health and vitality, our shared humanity, all of creation on our planet home, and all future generations. The natural world is capable of supplying all of our needs, while sustaining and enhancing our lives, if we allow the new, free and freeing, and truly saving power of natural, cosmic energy technologies to emerge.
Nature scatters their secrets and knowledge throughout all diverse human classifications, within all creatures and in every possible direction, even unto the cosmos. There is more to learn from studying nature right here on planet earth than many lifetimes could ever reveal. And yet, we choose everything that destroys nature and costs us, and now tragically and perhaps even irreversibly robs and costs us, our most precious and priceless gifts - love and life itself on on one shared planet earth home. All newly emerging knowledge, life and love are intrinsically dependent upon respect and generosity of spirit. We clearly don't have all the answers, but someone, some Universal One, both out there and within, might if we finally, and for the first time in human history, stepped aside and with due respect and awe, let them emerge and be revealed.
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