For practitioners and beginners — coaches, facilitators, organizations, and educators

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Embark on a journey that transforms how you experience the world—and how you navigate its most intricate challenges.

This book equips you with a tested blueprint for engaging in ‘Sensing Journeys’ that help you unearth meaningful insights, nurture collaboration, and foster bold, impactful change.

Take inspiration from real-world case stories, including a cancer diagnosis, an investment decision, a creative blockage, and organizational paralysis.

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Imagine having the tools to gracefully steer through life’s complexities—without feeling overwhelmed.

This book on systems sensing demystifies one core practice embraced by people working in and with complexity: the Sensing Journey method. It presents 20 diverse case stories, each with details on the setup, application, key learnings, and benefits of the practice in specific contexts, as well as tips for trying it on your own. It brings together the experiences of a global range of practitioners who engage wholeheartedly with complex and challenging issues, to enable greater empowerment and coherence—helping you get “unstuck” and gain inspired direction.

Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a beginner, this book is an invitation to lean into the unknown and cultivate the artistry of working with our wider ways of knowing to feel our way forward.  Learn how to sense a system for meaningful outcomes – from enhancing clarity and confidence, to nurturing trust and relationships, to inspiring creativity and possibility.

INSIDE THE BOOK

Embodied intelligence

Articulation of key terms, including capacities and wider ways of knowing that are cultivated in the practice.

Tips and variations to try it on your own. For example, “A Well-crafted Guiding Question.”

Tips for the practice

Case stories + visual maps

Personal and systemic applications covering areas from healthcare to investment to everyday soul searching.

Cartographic guides illustrate each of the 20 case stories, which include essentials of the practice, tips, benefits, and key learnings.

Praise

  • “How do we best navigate uncharted territory in social change that runs aground? How do we collectively stay present? ‘Systems sensing’ brings forth practices informed by complexity and systems thinking, adding an embodied and intuitive approach. In excavating at the border between conscious and subconscious, and testing these intuitions together, we get to bring more participative practices to all social institutions. Having tried it, I am a fan of Luea’s and Zam’s work!”

    —Hilary Bradbury, Ph.D,

    Editor-in-Chief Action Research Journal, Director Foundation AR+

  • “Luea and Zam of Collective Transitions are at the forefront of the emerging field of ‘systems sensing,’ offering rich theory and practical tools to help us tap into the deep wisdom of the systems we are embedded in, guiding us through the dizzying complexity of the modern world.”

    —Peter Limberg, The Stoa

  • “This book tries to articulate—through explanation, cases, and drawings— what ‘systems sensing’ is and what it can do, as we are all trying to navigate the complexities of our time. It is rare in its kind and does an excellent job in showing the rich diversity of ‘problems’ where this approach can be used and leads to more clarity.”

    — Ria Baeck, Collective Presencing

A crisis of perception 

“I have come to believe that today, our society as a whole finds itself in a crisis. We can read about its numerous manifestations every day in the newspapers. We have high inflation and unemployment; we have an energy crisis, a crisis in health care, pollution and other environmental disasters, a rising wave of violence and crime, and so on. These are all different facets of one and the same crisis, and this crisis is essentially a crisis of perception. Like the crisis in physics in the 1920s, it derives from the fact that we are trying to apply the concepts of an outdated worldview – the mechanistic worldview of Cartesian Newtonian science – to a reality that can no longer be understood in terms of these concepts. We live today in a globally interconnected world in which biological, psychological, social, and environmental phenomena are all interdependent. To describe this world appropriately, we need an ecological perspective, which the Cartesian worldview does not offer. What we need, then, is a new “paradigm”— a new vision of reality, a fundamental change in our thoughts, perceptions, and values. ”

— Fritof Capra

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