Facilitation in Complexity: From Creation to Co-creation, from Dreaming to Co-dreaming, from Evolution to Co-evolution

This book offers co-evolution approaches to help humanity self-organize, co-create, and manage complexity, showcasing conceptual solutions for specific strategies, tactics, and operations. It incorporates transcending silos and organizational hierarchies, rapid onboarding, situational awareness, innovation, and action, and long-term sustained co-creative action.

Format: Hardback
Length: 365 pages
Publication date: 10 January 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This groundbreaking book pioneers co-evolution approaches, which the authors have prototyped and tested with extensive academic and practical backgrounds spanning the globe. Its primary objective is to empower humanity, often perceived as complex adaptive systems, to self-organize, co-create, and effectively manage complexity. By exemplifying through their own experiences as individuals and open networks, the book showcases practical solutions for specific complexity strategies, tactics, and operations. Each chapter presents conceptual frameworks that serve as blueprints and roadmaps, offering guidance for practitioners and researchers alike.

The core features incorporated in all the approaches revolve around transcending silos and organizational hierarchies, fostering a borderless collaboration among diverse stakeholders with dynamic roles and responsibilities concerning purposes, missions, and solutions. The book offers insightful suggestions for strategic, tactical, and operational managerial and governance approaches tailored for disruptive, short-term, innovative, open, large-scale engagements where rapid onboarding, situational awareness, innovation, and innovation in context are paramount. It also delves into the facilitation of long-term sustained co-creative action, enabling adaptability to external and internal complexity dynamics while driving positive change.

Throughout the book, the emergence of co-creation and co-dreaming is intricately linked to the process of co-evolution. Chapters 1, 2, and 11 are made available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via the link: link.springer.com.

Weight: 764g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031110641
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023