Assumptions

1. The crisis of our time at the root is a crisis of human consciousness
All the challenges we are facing in all the levels, including social divides, tension between groups and states, economic crisis, global warming, resource depletion, ecological etc. They are all highly interconnected and are rooted in one major crisis: human consciousness. Therefore all the attempts to address these challenges, if not emerge from addressing the root cause, might eventually lead us to more complicated challenges in the future.

2. Threats can be transformed to opportunities
Every crisis opens up a crack in the old system. Depending on how we pay attention to it, it can turn into a threat or an opportunity. In other words, the crisis of our time can also be an opportunity for humanity to evolve to a more extended level of consciousness. It just depends on how we pay attention to it.

3. Individual intelligence is no more enough
The learning that is called here is a collective learning in all levels. We simply can not afford to listen to our individual heads anymore. The transformation requires letting go of many basic assumptions that we hold as modern people, but first we need to see them. That requires us to start listening to the space between us, and create safe spaces for each other to take this collective learning journey.

4. We don’t have the answers, first we need to find the right questions
We are not the experts who know the answers anymore, that’s for the old paradigm. Real learning and innovations sprouts from a sense of not knowing; a beginner’s mind. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki