“For social systems to truly change we need to upgrade their underlying operating systems, that is, we need to cultivate not only what is growing ‘above the ground’, but also the conditions of social soil”, which are “the less visible inner conditions, what is beneath the surface, the quality of awareness (attention and intentions) and the quality of relationships that affect how we operate.” Scharmer argues for a “shift toward building collective capacity for bottom-up cross-sector innovation and transformation across places and regions… Leaning into, sensing, and actualising the emerging future” in a way that is “independent of” traditional politics. We’re all aware that in a world of “polarisation and absencing”, it’s hard to “hold the space for the activation of an entire ecosystem,” but Scharmer urges us to try, proposing three upgrades, seven practices, and three pathways to “cultivate the social soil” that he’ll explore further in later posts.
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