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The evolution of a city
The STIR foundation was born as a critical alternative to the mainstream reality that was showing so many inhumane, destructive situations around the world. Contact with people in Italy brought the insight that “this is not a revolution, it is evolution!”. Such change in position of what was being referred to as the City of Tomorrow brought a totally new approach to engaging with our surroundings. Now, 15 years later, we see the effects as the town Eindhoven in the Netherlands, its participating leadership and citizenship, gradually develops signs of phase 4 decision making and behavioral change. It is still at a level of certain tension with phase 3 but evolving. This short video tries to provide some understanding of this intense and inspiring 800 years of evolution. We are curious if you see similar development in your own environment. If so, please elaborate in the comments.
How our changing perception of reality helps human evolution
We all may know that our perception of the reality around us is a personal interpretation, not necessarily an absolute precise representation. What if we open up to looking at reality in new ways? What would it do to us and maybe even to society? In this video we try to explain how we can contribute to human evolution by experimenting with our perception of realities.
2023 was a year of sharing reflections about a new collective story for us all. In 2024 we want the new story to grow
It is becoming high time that humankind is getting back on track of its own positive evolution. However stepping out of the pack, which is on the path of self destruction, is difficult. I personally did in 1996 and everyone around me declared me “out of my mind”. In 2005 I introduced the Entrepreneurship of the 21st century and started coaching business organizations on the 4 x WIN principles of contributing to humankind and the planet, instead of using them as resources for financial self interests. Gradually I started to understand that such a new type entrepreneurship needed the appropriate environment to develop. But no other societal environments wanted to work with me or my story. For them the world still turned around money which could solve anything. In 2008 the financial crisis blew away this dream.
Since 2009, the small STIR foundation, that I had set up to experiment with working with the idea of 4 x WIN regional value creation, began to invite the fragmented silos of society to engage in new storytelling environments. Nothing seemed to work initially, until I suggested to work on regional air quality and health. Now, 14 years further down the line, and a lot of experimentation with the STIR set of core human values, we can reflect about:
- The complexity of change (do we have free will?)
- Mature versus immature society formats
- New educational formats
- The converging power of existentialist ethics (a conference paper that will be published through other channels)
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 