From learning to leadership, living systems teach us.
Generative systems learn, grow, adapt and change as life does.
From page 32 of The Power to Transform by Stephanie Pace Marshall
Life as Our Mentor:
The Principles of Living Systems
“Living systems are dynamic living webs of interdependent relationships—inherently whole, abundant, creative and self-organizing. Their organizing principles, creative processes and dynamic interdependence must guide our design of generative human systems, especially those that nurture the growing minds of our children. When life becomes our mentor, we can create learning systems that are “naturally right”, by design and enable our children and our communities to thrive.”
Click below to explore the questions they ask.
Identity
Autonomous, meaning-making and self-referencing.
Information
Information-seeking and generating;
open and responsive to meaningful environmental disturbances that inform our identity.
Relationships
Interdependent, intricately networked and
relationship-creating and trust-centered.
Emergence
The confluence and synergy of system identity, information and relationships, creates the landscape essential for individual and system wholeness, meaning and connections.
Structures
Flexible, spontaneously adaptive
and driven by the system’s identity.
Processes
Boundlessly creative, self-organizing; novelty-generating and order-creating.
