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Human Systems Pattern
Our current state of sustainability - towards or away from nature
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Dr Matthew Parnell
Archetypes Pattern
An Essential Pattern mapping the most common participant archetypes influencing transformation across a social entity.
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Worldview Pattern
An Essential Pattern to guide sustainability practitioners to identify participant worldviews and to understand their influence on transformation
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Social Entity Pattern
Understanding a social entity's current state and readiness for transformation.
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Soul Pattern
Expressing the force of life and the activity of consciousness as a dimension of Living Systems Practice.
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Practitioner Pattern
Capabilities for working holistically in complex living systems
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Dr Matthew Parnell
Knowledge Pattern
Mapping the Living Systems Practice knowledge ecosystem
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Conviviality Pattern
Promoting positive human qualities, values and harmony in the pathway to transformation.
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Guiding Pattern
Supporting the strategic design process without imposing control or manipulation
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Dr Matthew Parnell
Enabling Pattern
Augmenting design cycles through deeper practice
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Design Cycles Pattern
Purposefully shifting a system to a preferred system state through creativity, participation and emergent patterns
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Phase Pattern
Sustaining a sustainability transformation through embedding culture by design
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