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Hope and the Future
A guidebook for the times we live in by one of today's most respected and provocative social thinkers.Hope and the Future addresses what legitimate hope for the future necessarily de- pends on. It examines how we face a growing number of challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new ways-often fundamentally new ways. And it explores how effectively addressing those challenges will require not just fresh ideas, but a critical "growing up" as a species. This essential book also looks at ways that needed changes are already happening, and how, when we are ready for them, they can seem surprisingly straightforward, indeed, like common sense. Hope and the Future is an exploration of the "new common sense" on which our future depends.
Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future (with an Introduction to the Ideas of Creative Systems Theory)
Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Futureis the most detailed of three new future-related works by the author. It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those inter- ested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more need in all parts of our lives in times ahead. The concept of Cultural Maturity makes understandable how institutional structures and beliefs that in modern times have served us well can't be the ideals and end points that we have assumed them to be....
Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions
Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions addresses how the new kind of understanding we need today, besides helping us confront modern-day challenges, also brings a new creativity of perspective to more ultimate questions. It describes how many such ultimate questions have baffled us not because they are inherently difficult, but becase they require a maturity of understanding of which we are only now becoming capable. This short book uses the thinking of Creative Systems Theory to take on some of the most important and timely of such quesions. Some examples: -How do we best understand the times in which we live? -How do we best understand the human story as a whole? -Why, at diff...
The Creative Imperative
The Creative Imperative confronts the most critical question of our time: how we must think to have a vital future. It first introduced the thinking of Creative Systems Theory over thirty years ago and remains one of the most important resources for understanding the theory and its contribution. It is also a valued reference for people interested in a deep understanding of creative process. Creative Systems Theory is a comprehensive framework for understanding purpose, change, and interrelationship in human systems. It helps us better understand the past, tease apart current cultural dilemmas, and make sense of what a vital human future will require of us. The theory offers a overarching app...
Creative Systems Theory
This book is the place to go for a deep dive into the forward-thinking, multi-faceted ideas of Creative Systems Theory. From the book's back cover: "Creative Systems Theory brings big-picture, long-term perspective to understanding who we are and why we think and act in the ways that we do. It is pertinent equally to appreciating the past, teasing apart current cultural challenges, and making sense of what a vital human future will require of us. This is the definitive work on Creative Systems Theory and its implications. "At a practical level, Creative Systems Theory provides powerful tools for making effective choices in both our personal and our collective lives. More conceptually, it mak...
Pattern and Reality
Pattern and Reality presents an introduction to Creative Systems Theory, a comprehensive framework for understanding change and relationship in human systems originated by Charles Johnston MD. The book was developed as a teaching resource for the Institute for Creative Development.
The Power of Diversity
The Power of Diversity presents the Creative Systems Personality Typology, a sophisticated yet simple framework for understand temperament differences used by educators, psychologists, organizational consultants and people interested in greater self knowledge. The CSPT is derived from the broader thinking of Creative Systems Theory and has particular application to understanding how temperament differences can compliment one another and serve as the basis for powerful collaboration.
Hope and the Future
An answer to the future by one of today's most respected and provocative social thinkers. Hope and the Future addresses what being optimistic about the future ultimately depends on. It describes how we face a growing number of human challenges that require that we think, act, and relate in new ways-often fundamentally new ways. And it looks at how effectively addressing those challenges will require not just fresh ideas, but a critical "growing up" as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. This first in a new three book series by psychiatrist and futurist Charles M. Johnston MD introduces the concept of Cultural Maturity and examines how the changes it describes will be necessary to a future that is at all healthy-and perhaps even survivable. It also looks at ways in which Cultural Maturity's changes are already happening, and how, when we are ready for them, needed changes can seem surprisingly straightforward; indeed, like common sense. Hope and the Future is an exploration of the "new common sense" on which our future depends.
The Creative Imperative
The Creative Imperative first introduced the ideas of Creative Systems Theory and the concept of Cultural Maturity and is still the place to go to find the most detailed presentations of many of the theory's concepts. It brings particular nuance to the theory's claim that we see parallel dynamics in the way human systems of all sorts grow and change -- individuals, relationships, organizations, and cultural systems. For many people it remains the definitive resource.
