What We Do

The commitment to a new way of approaching social complexity is not simply a new way of thinking about situations, but a new way of engaging with such situations. Too often we encounter, and are forced to work within, a world of glib visions, explanatory frameworks, packaged services, the demand for detailed planning and predictable outcome – in short, a solution orientation that bureaucratises the steps needed to get there, and ignores both the inner capacities of practitioners and participants as well as the unfolding and unpredictable emergence of the social situation itself. This building of an engaged and responsive approach, based on the learned capacity to read and anticipate changing situations, is made possible by a practice based on the understanding and methods that were developed by J W von Goethe for working with organic phenomena, and which are now being recognised and taken further by a significant range of practitioners in various disciplines.

This work requires:

• an organic understanding of individuals, communities and organisations;
• a rigorous methodology for observing - and intervening into - these social situations;
• the building of new faculties for applying such methodology; and
• an increasing understanding of self.

We undertake a variety of entwined strategies, each consistent with these parameters of understanding and practice - View Methodology

In pursuing these strategies we:

• respond to requests for assistance from those organisations tired of fragmented and piecemeal ‘solutions’ (Consultancy Services)
• school practitioners in the requisite understanding and faculties required by this new approach ( Programmes)
• facilitate living conversations between and within social formations and actors - (Conversations;)