Living systems

A Natural Approach to Organising Life

• A living system only accepts its own solutions (we only support those things we are a part of creating)

• A living system only pays attention to that which is meaningful to it (here and now)

• In nature a living system participates in the development of its neighbour (an isolated system is doomed)

• Nature and all of nature, including ourselves is in constant change (without ‘change management’)

• Nature seeks diversity – new relations open up to new possibilities (not survival of the fittest)

• ‘Tinkering’ opens up to what is possible here and now – nature is not intent on finding perfect solutions

• A living system cannot be steered or controlled – they can only be teased, nudged, titillated

• A system changes (identity) when its perception of itself changes

• All the answers do not exist ‘out there’ – we must (sometimes) experiment to find out what works

• Who we are together is always different and more than who we are alone (possibility of emergence)

• We (human beings) are capable of self-organising – given the right conditions

• Self-organisation shifts to a higher order