I’ve been doing some work with some great folks that are doing/working on amazing regional transformations through a systems approach. It’s occured to me that they’re using two seperate catalysts in making that happen. One is using financial capital and the other community empowerment.
In our current society, financial capital is one of the most powerful constructs in society and for now and always the empowerment or uprising of community is the other.
What’s also interesting is that the transformation comes simply from the interactions that those initiatives are having within the regions they are working with… which comes from interacting from a different mindset.
The catalysts serve to allow interactions to happen and set the condition that the interactions are heard with a different intensity.
It’s amazing to see effect of the simplest interaction in prompting tremendous transformation. Kind of life butterfly wings.