The Repatterning Collective
What if - we can actively repattern and rewire in the direction of radically different (imagined) regenerative futures?
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The Repatterning Collective explores two connected "What if" questions:
What if - our approach to the (poly)crisis is part of the crisis?
What if - we can actively repattern and rewire in the direction of radically different (imagined) regenerative futures?
As the climate and other major crises increasingly spiral out of control, we find ourselves at a critical rupture point. Patterns help shape our (in)ability to effectively address our global crises.
These patterns and their interactions inform and drive systems and their outcomes. We can see this as the hidden wiring underneath the system.
We call this hidden wiring the ‘pattern web’, and it’s underlying our current state of play.
This means that to transform a system, we have to understand repatterning – how to change multiple interconnected patterns and their interactions (with the system’s infrastructure, constructs, designs, and mindsets) in order to change the system itself.
Moreover, the existing pattern web is likely to resist, which can result in our efforts being slowed down or even undermined. Thus we equally have to be acutely aware of how the current pattern web may respond. And build this into our repatterning response.
There are no single answers or outcomes here. We have to be willing to work with emergence, whereby the path is part of the answer. And where we engage in an iterative process of untangling, re-imagining, re-wiring, and re-patterning this web - and our responses to it.
Many of us already do this and some of us are very good at it. Even more of us lack sufficient skill and insight to be truly effective pattern web spotters and re-patterners. (And we can see many examples all around us where we perpetuate the patterns of the past, or keep patterning the dominant system in our approaches and solutions)
That’s why The Repatterning Collective is creating a pipeline of exploratory and applied learning on repatterning. To hone our ability for and deepen our understanding of repatterning, as a critical component of transformation in the increasingly complex and daunting world we’re facing today.
We are currently exploring various strands to engage deeper into this repatterning inquiry.
What if - our approach to the (poly)crisis is part of the crisis?
What if - we can actively repattern and rewire in the direction of radically different (imagined) regenerative futures?
As the climate and other major crises increasingly spiral out of control, we find ourselves at a critical rupture point. Patterns help shape our (in)ability to effectively address our global crises.
These patterns and their interactions inform and drive systems and their outcomes. We can see this as the hidden wiring underneath the system.
We call this hidden wiring the ‘pattern web’, and it’s underlying our current state of play.
This means that to transform a system, we have to understand repatterning – how to change multiple interconnected patterns and their interactions (with the system’s infrastructure, constructs, designs, and mindsets) in order to change the system itself.
Moreover, the existing pattern web is likely to resist, which can result in our efforts being slowed down or even undermined. Thus we equally have to be acutely aware of how the current pattern web may respond. And build this into our repatterning response.
There are no single answers or outcomes here. We have to be willing to work with emergence, whereby the path is part of the answer. And where we engage in an iterative process of untangling, re-imagining, re-wiring, and re-patterning this web - and our responses to it.
Many of us already do this and some of us are very good at it. Even more of us lack sufficient skill and insight to be truly effective pattern web spotters and re-patterners. (And we can see many examples all around us where we perpetuate the patterns of the past, or keep patterning the dominant system in our approaches and solutions)
That’s why The Repatterning Collective is creating a pipeline of exploratory and applied learning on repatterning. To hone our ability for and deepen our understanding of repatterning, as a critical component of transformation in the increasingly complex and daunting world we’re facing today.
We are currently exploring various strands to engage deeper into this repatterning inquiry.