Collabathon June 10th 2025: Updating the Second Renaissance Map

In the context of the Ikigai-based lesson I taught last night (described in this thread: Facing the Future - #9 by RobertBunge), it occurred to me Ikigai affords an alternative way to organize all the map content. Short version:

  • what you love (inner work)
  • skills (group process work)
  • world needs (all the metatheories)
  • get paid [or otherwise pleased with results and outcomes] (theories of change, effective practices)

One thing the came out of the collabathon was that the current map locates metatheories centrally, with a certain pride of place. The current map thus appears to privilege theoretical abstraction over practices. In the Ikigai approach, something more general - like “2R vision” - could occupy the conceptual center, with metatheory being one of the supporting approaches, but not necessarily the star of the show.

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