Cohere+: Cohering the Ecosystem of Paradigmatic Social Change Organisations in Europe
The purpose of this 3-year project is to enhance the collective capacities of European change agents and learn together how to transform "metacrisis", moving together towards a regenerative, cohesive, and healthy Europe.
Our focus is on the field of "paradigmatic" change agents in Europe: those who can be identified as taking whole-systems, integrative approaches towards paradigmatic societal transformation. Cohere+ combines research, events, technology development, and educational offerings in order to: map the European ‘transformational change’ field; engage with agents to build community and coherence within the field; and develop the collective capacities of change agents across Europe to co-create regenerative systems and societies.
Publications
Led by Life Itself:
- Interactive visual map of the "paradigmatic social change" ecosystem
- Directory of organisations in the "paradigmatic social change" ecosystem
- Catherine Tran and Elisa Paka, 'Emergent Power: Key Challenges and Capacities for Paradigmatic Change Agents' (2024)
- An impressionistic map of the "paradigmatic social change" ecosystem
Led by our project partners:
- Profiles of visionary changemakers and essays on key tools and methodologies for transformative social change, listed here. [Various authors, including Leigh Biddlecome and Ivo Mensch. Published by Emerge.]
- Claudine Villemot-Kienzle, Bettina Geiken, and the Cohere+ team, Communities of Coherence: A Guide for Practitioners (2024). [A comprehensive guide to coherence and its role in creating effective systemic change.]
- Cohere+ learning platform [Featuring free online, self-paced mini-courses in five key learning series: Personal Coherence; Wise Relating; Communities of Coherence; Social Architecture; and Collective Voice and Impact. Courses authored by: Bettina Geiken; Claudine Villemot-Kienzle; Kara Stonehouse; Pieter Wackers.]
Background
Read more about the project motivation and objectives:
Partners
Our partners on this project are:
- Emerge
- Ekskäret Foundation
- Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS)
- The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation, and Emergence
This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
Disclaimer
The Cohere+ project is a collaboration between: Life Itself, The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence; Institute for Integral Studies, Freiburg; Emerge; and the Ekskäret Foundation. It was co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.