Nurturing the Underlayer of Systems Transformation Work | Essay 3: The People Who Hold the Work
To some degree, everyone is called to care for what we’ve been naming the underlayer or the relational web in this series of essays. But, some people dedicate themselves more specifically to it. We like to use the term process stewardship for this function.
Nurturing the Underlayer of Systems Transformation Work | Essay 2: Building the Connective Tissue
A decade ago, discourse around the polycrisis and the metacrisis was marginal. It is now widely present, in many serious institutional conversations, on social media, in live conversations. Something is shifting here, in the discourse at least.
Nurturing the Underlayer of Systems Transformation Work | Essay 1: Tuning up Our Attentional Capacity
In times when many of us wonder, 'What can I do? '— feeling small or helpless in the face of a fraying world — there is something tangible each of us can do: we can expand our attentional capacity.
Nurturing the Underlayer of Systems Transformation Work | Intro: What Does the World Require of Us?
In this six-part essay series, Luea Ritter, Julien Leyre and Claudian Dobos explore the underlayer of systems transformation work, asking what kinds of capacities, relationships and ways of working are needed if we are to accompany systems transformation work within the outstanding complexity of our times.
A culture of care in pressurised negotiations
How can a culture of care and solidarity be brought into pressurised negotiations and how can it help? Here, Luea reflects on how a culture of care and solidarity is crafted in the work she does with the Youth Negotiators Academy at each year’s UNFCCC Conference Of the Parties (COP) and how she’s seen this culture bloom across people, spaces and into the negotiations themselves.
Field Reading - September 30, 2025
What is essential for this moment, these days, these couple of weeks?
What truths enable us to be strong, stable and clear, especially when enduring adversity or challenges?
We went on a journey, exploring different sides and crevices of this inquiry — from joy, to an inner resource, to the capacities that are available to each of us, to truth, challenge and to the space between or the unknown. Each element has its own character, a message, and something to teach us about how we might better navigate in these complex times.
The Rainmaker
In this post, we consider how the lessons from an ancient Chinese tale can help us — collectively and individually — to acknowledge, reflect on, support and heal the imbalances, disorders, and disharmonies facing our societies and planet today.
Societal Transformation and Systems Change: Exploring Challenges, Capacities, and Insights
In this post, we share some insights on the capacities required to navigate the complexity of systems change, and reflect on the challenges and sensitive areas we’ve encountered and experienced on our own systems change journeys, covering both inner and outer dimensions.
Guidelines for Async Constellations
Asynchronous or “async” constellations is an adaptation of a systemic constellations practice that allows a group of people to inquire into shared topics asynchronously, at their own pace and in different time zones.