Time‐space‐Technics: The evolution of societal systems and World‐views

Taylor, Alastair M.

doi:10.1080/02604027.1999.9972750

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“…Usually referred to as wilderness adventure therapy, there currently exists a large body of research regarding the use of wilderness environments in terms of therapeutic change (e.g., Bandoroff & Scherer, 1994;Crisp, 1998;Davis-Berman et al, 1994;Harper, 2009). Common to all natural systems are the following properties (see Laszlo, 1996;Taylor, 1999, Wilber, 1996.…”

Section: Integral Systems Theorymentioning

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The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

2010

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Currently, a fragmentation in ideas exists regarding understanding psychological wellness and preferred routes to healing. This is evident in current adventure therapy (AT) literature, where unique combinations of experiential learning, challenge activities, novel experiences, group work, and other psychological theories are often used to account for positive outcomes and to explain mechanisms for change. Rarely is contact with wilderness environments included as an important variable associated with positive outcomes and change. AT has been rightly criticized for not recognizing the ecological paradigm of therapy conducted in wild nature. By including principles from integral systems theory, we offer adventure therapists a map, allowing for these seemingly disparate parts to fit together into a coherent whole. In addition, we propose that wilderness is a crucial cofacilitator in the change process. If seriously considered, these ideas pose a number of important questions for AT theory and practice.

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The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

2010

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“…While paradigm-changing innovations often appear first as new material technologies, societal transformation only occurs when a coherent new world view develops that is powerful enough to organize congruent values, social structures, and economic processes (A. Taylor 1999).…”

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A Realistic (Holistic) Approach to Climate Mitigation

Taylor

2016

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At this time, most climate researchers are only using a limited range of futures approaches: for example, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) future scenarios have been developed primarily with empirical predictive methods that extrapolate trends. These seriously underestimate the risk of nonlinear developments and critical failures. This article examines the Paris Climate Conference (COP) 21 agreement on climate mitigation; explains why current efforts are based on false assumptions and likely to fail; argues that holistic, integrative methods are needed to avoid disaster; and uses these methods to develop a practical strategy for accelerating systemic transformation. Despite the impressive diplomatic achievements of the Paris Agreement, there is a dangerous lag between the pace of political, economic, and technological change and the rapid (nonnegotiable) rate of climate change. The challenge is to find ways to manage the conflict between the need to work within existing institutional frameworks and the reality that they are not (and may be structurally incapable of) acting quickly enough to prevent catastrophic outcomes. This dichotomy may be resolved by using a three-track strategy: the first track will focus on accelerating existing climate mitigation efforts by encouraging decision-makers to use holistic, critical-safety risk management methods. The second track will counter ideological opposition with constructive alternative narratives. The third track will help catalyze the global movement needed to empower structural transformation and the emergence of a sustainable global system. It will not be possible to resolve many complex global socioecological problems (climate, water, food, energy, growing inequality, etc.) without transformational change. Integrative, whole-systems methods are now needed to accelerate the evolution of a sustainable global system.

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THE Earth Charter as a New Worldview in a Post-Neoliberal World: Chaos Theory and Morphic Fields as Explanatory Contexts

Fernández-Herrería

Rodríguez

2019

World Futures

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Time‐space‐Technics: The evolution of societal systems and World‐views

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

A Realistic (Holistic) Approach to Climate Mitigation

THE Earth Charter as a New Worldview in a Post-Neoliberal World: Chaos Theory and Morphic Fields as Explanatory Contexts

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