We're excited to share the release of the second volume of the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change (JASC).

Since the launch of our first volume, comprising of two issues, just thirteen months ago, the Journal has already had 31,600 views and file downloads.

Our intention, as shared in the editorial of the inaugural issue is,

To develop a platform that makes visible the growing body of trans-disciplinary work supporting and advancing systems change through awareness-based methodologies and approaches.

We want to make visible and advance through applied studies and theoretical development, and methodological innovation, the process of deep systems change. Integral to this intention are two underlying assumptions:-

1. The knowing needed to inform effective, sustainable change, extends beyond the rational-cognitive realm, to include embodied, relational, aesthetic, and sensorial knowing.
2. Systems change is only possible if we make visible two interconnected cycles at play in social reality creation - the regenerative forces and capacities of Presencing as well as the destructive counterpart of Absencing.
3. Our task then is to examine power - where it lies, how it shapes our systems and structures, and how it is experienced, both inside and between us.

In this issue, we continue our work - as we seek to co-shape and partake in the r-(e)evolution of science and research, supporting the move from differentiation to integration, from binary to plurality, from dualism to complementarity.

Already since our last issue, the landscape of the world in front of us has shifted dramatically. The ongoing backdrop of the covid-pandemic, the Ukraine-Russia conflict that has escalated into a full-fledged war, forced migration into Europe, the cost of living crisis, with rising fuel costs and disruption to food supply chains, especially for those in the most vulnerable parts of the world. All these complex problems, contributing to a narrative of blame and polarization.

Our ways of thinking, feeling, and seeing the world, to “knowing” it well now asks us to widen our view and adopt an ecological approach that is both inter-and transdisciplinary - a hybrid approach to engage in processes of disassembling and reassembling the structural and cultural foundations and the symbolic conditions of which we are a part.

We hope that you enjoy this edition of the Journal which, as a collection, weaves together first-, second-, and third-person perspectives, illuminates the intertwined nature of theory and practice, and brings to the fore holistic knowing to inform action.

With this issue, we invite you into our continuing conversations around what it takes to live together and in harmony with the planet in a time of complex crises. As always we invite your comments, feedback, and reflections.

Oliver, Eva, Megan & Otto

(The Editorial Team)

Adapted from Koenig et al. (2022). Editorial Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change: From Duality to Complementarity. Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, 2(1), 1-7.

 

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Cover Image Credit: Jayce Pei-Yu Lee

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