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As a scientist, sustainability practitioner and increasingly as an artist, I have come to a simple realisation. Sustainability can only work if we engage with it with open mind, open heart, and open will. My aspiration is to use robust approaches that foster these three core life openings.
System approaches for exploring complex systems
Open mind: Sustainability is complex. Practitioners often have incomplete or contradictory knowledge, large number of people and opinions are involved, and many sectors are affected due the interconnected nature of sustainability problems. Sustainability requires open mind approaches to explore complexity I have been applying system approaches such as the Iceberg to connect events, to patterns of behaviours, to systems structures, and mental models to explore complexity.
Gaming for scenario and strategy development
Open heart: How can we help the next generation of policy makers, business leaders and citizens strengthen their capacity for stakeholder processes with open heart? Games can help! I am working with collaborators from ETH Zurich to transform complex systems into games for sustainability. We then expose stakeholders to these role-playing games. They experience complex systems from different perspectives (being in different shoes). This can be a moment of heart opening.
Mindful facilitation to foster open mind, heart and will
Open will: . We need courage and curiosity to help transform old thinking and routines, and emotional and institutional stuckness, often inherent in organisations. I am training to become a certified facilitator with the Generative Facilitation Institute to move to the next level - combining system approaches with mindful facilitation to explore with full openness the emotional and institutional blockages that is preventing teams to engage with open mind, heart and will.
Embodying sustainability
Personal explorations: As a dancer, I am exploring how we can connect through embodied experiences the depth of nature's secrets. It is hard to feel part of nature when we live in cities, when our computers are our primary work tool, even if we work on sustainability. If we dance together the magic of trees, old and young, can we work better together? Can we be touched by each others magic, going beyond only cognitive appreciation?
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