Impossible commitments?

Sustainable human and regional development requires the transition between ways of thinking and handling. The latter is already complex for individuals who see their comfort zones and lifestyle affected and hence adjusted. It is even more complex for institutions whose reason to be is often only partially compatible with the new sustainable development context. They can be part of a solution through technology or services yet are often part of the problem due to their polluting productivity or misuse of natural resources.

Think for instance of the car industry that is challenged into rethinking urban mobility, air and sound pollution or space optimization. Or multinationals that sell their health innovation, produced in a highly unhealthy and polluting supply chain. Or governance that tries to fit new age sustainability policy into political economic business cases.

Within our level 4 awareness driven regional development we bring together all these troubled minds and institutions into one local priortized, sustainocratic community setting. This seems a way of asking for trouble. Yet we find that in this environment the contradictions within the transition are largely eliminated into a can do setting. Where individuals seem unlikely to be able to take integral responsibility by themselves without disputing their own existence or way of working, the community highlights their remaining authority in a progressive, innovative, multidisciplinary approach. The contradiction however ofter produces stress in the communities and commitments. When many are involved this can be disruptive, conflictive and unproductive. To identify the blocks, mismatches and potential solutions, we use a special technique.

Systemic constellations

A complex multidisciplinary community consists of different energies that either complement each other or not. It is often unclear what is what since interests and commitments are mostly intertwined or not 100% transparant to the group. A systemic constellation is a reproduction of the players using a platform that helps envisage the different patterns and forces at hand. With a particular question at hand the power play is visualized and analyzed. Hidden fields appear both in the positive and negative sense. As the reviewing proceeds layer after layer can be analysed and look at from different perspectives. Players can exchange positions in order to feel the empathy within choices at hand that are often otherwise not understood. Playing the constellation is often an eye opener for all involved at personal and institutional level and helps strengthen relationships, processes and projects that otherwise would maybe waste resources and time.

STIR Foundation’s excellence

We find the extreme value of our STIR focus on level 4 participatory society, which we started defining and developing practical experience with since 2009. And in addition the experience we developed in te dynamic clustering processes of priority based multidisciplinary gathering at this level using our sustainocratic values to connect all participants. Over the years we had a variety of clusters that started with enthousiasm but did not survive themselves. Others took a long time to come to get to consolidate for growth due to hidden, unidentified forces. With the inclusion of specialists partners in the systemic constellation approac we completed the central team of sustainocratic community development. We also found in it a way to anticipate issues before even starting a complex dynamic clustering process.

Worldwide expertise sharing

Now, with all this expertise (level 4 multidisciplinary participation, sustainocratic core values, systemic constellations, etc we are ready to help sustainable regional development througout the world. Climate awareness, UN Sustainable Development Goals, commitment to Sustainocratic core values, whatever the focus, STIR can help with experts, methods and solid examples.

Surely I could write about the big private banking power houses that control our political and social debt agenda around the world. Or the warfare against communities against death and fear, just to achieve control over natural resources. I will not. At much smaller scale the human disaster of greed leaves tremendous pains as well and maybe we can do something about it.

Peru, christmas time 2018 in a small place called Huayopata, close to Machu Picchu.

A huge landslide destroys the beautiful and protected countryside, takes houses and kills people. The sacred mountain with its ancient holy Inca indian sites is mutulated for ever.

The official reading is that the desastrous landslide was caused by heavy rainfall. Locals however state that for years over 200 illegal dinamite detonations were counted supposedly of gold seekers who bribe local officials to do this. The mountain was so damaged that rainfall did the rest.

This is not the only issue that destroys the environment, cultural historic grounds and human wellness in such region. How many other spots on Earth have been manipulated this way at the expense of the people living there? The good will always prevail, some say, but the bad makes us join forces to do so. How can we erradicate this greed out of ourselves and hence out of society? For the first time in human history we face the challenge to create a society where the “having” is irrelevant, “shared abundance” is, equality substitutes hierarchies of inequality, power is replaced by authority, destruction by creation, distrust and hate is subsitituted by trust and love.

The greatest difficulty is not the irradicate the greedy but to make non greed rule, making greed obsolete. The solution we developed is called Sustainocracy, the level 4 regional development, the participation society, based on core human and natural values. All the regions affected by desaster have two things in common. People demand justice and people open up to something new, constructive and positive. The first is difficult when justice is made by the greedy. Te latter is also an indirect way to apply justice as evaluation parameters are put into place that allow avoiding mishaps. They do use symptoms and pains from the past to create awareness and progress. In this process justice is applied against the new “non greed” criteria, not the old “greed acceptance”.

Having said this, this region of Peru can start developing itself positively again and attend priorities it never did before. The local Peruvian drinking water issue in Lima and surroundings for instance is equally desastrous. The city was built with the ocean and trade in mind, not health and sustainable wellness. Rain water in the Andes falls on the other side, making it complicated to channel it to the city. The water is rationed among the poor while the rich can fill their swimming pools. All a consequence of money driven politics. If Sustainocracy is applied than the entire region is charted from a core values perspective and the water issue is dealt with collectively together from a shared abundance perspective between institutions and citizens.

The Power of Love is an indicator that shows the expressionist potential of the heart through passion, dedication, vision, leadership and artistic manifestation. Whether it is the design of scuptures, a dance, a painting, new design patterns for city and regional development or the entire redefintion of society. This united Natalia and Jean-Paul as feminine and masculine unification, creating together a powerfull community of passionate expressionist men and women that together contribute to local and global sustainable human development and progress.