What Ingela Svedin taught me about fixing broken systems

We talk a lot about the “metacrisis” here but what if that just isn’t a healthy way to find our way towards a better society?

What if focusing on problems just creates more problems and keeps us from finding solutions not just independently but in our existing systems?

In this conversation I talked with Ingela Svedin on why our 20th-century ideas are breaking down and how we can transform our institutions into living systems. Ingela has had a long career in places like the Swedish Institute and the Swedish International Development Agency, as well as leading Inner Development Goal work at Klustret Ekskäret. She tied together a host of ideas and movements (links below) that changed the way I see the big picture today.

Explore references from conversation:

* Nora Bateson, International Bateson Institute: Warm Data

* Planetary Boundaries

* Kate Raworth and Doughnut Economics

* Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism : Machado de Oliveira, Vanessa

* Tomas Björkman

* Yuval Noah Harari

* Theory U | Leading from the emerging future - Otto Scharmer

* Inner Development Goals (IDGs)

* Quintet of change

* Loud Summer