The unseen inner dimension of systems change and sustainability

Summary

A short commentary urging systems thinkers to take the ‘inner’ seriously. Jamie Bristow and Rosie Bell argue that mindsets, biases and values are “subtly pulling the levers of our external world”, leaving individualist societies blind “to the interdependence of all life”. To the five turnarounds of ‘Earth for All’, sequel to ‘Limits to Growth’, they add “a sixth essential shift”.

Rationale

Their narratives “experienced as reality itself” describe deep dispositions fairly. We’d hesitate at their ‘dual approach’ to inner and outer, having found sense-making distributed across body, relationship and environment.