Interesting you should mention IAM …
At the 1:10 mark of this video, Rob Scott mentioned that change theory is the missing piece. This on a presentation including Josh Leonard, Brendan Graham Dempsey, Gregg Henriques and others. So it’s not like there is a lack of high-powered talent on the project.
Then a couple days ago I read the lead post in this thread Cultural work is foundational for addressing the metacrisis and a second renaissance
by @rufuspollock My reaction to that post: “That wants to become a change theory!”
I’ve hung out (it seems like forever) in Integral Life, Brendan Graham Dempsey’s FB spaces, and the recently closed UTOK forum - but a viable change theory never really surfaced. I got to 2R through @JamesBaker and practices. Rufus’s post in that thread above makes me feel like 2R is on the hunt for what these other - very impressive - theoretical models are calling for, but not identifying: how to make it really work.
Now - on the funded institute idea - my $1 billion proposal elsewhere on this forum sounds tongue-in-cheek, but it’s really not. The thing is, it needs nowhere near $1 billion in initial investment. We can bootstrap it off of resources we current have. We can organize an institute for that matter. Just move the whole business to @JamesBaker’s Intentional Ventures (or move James to the Institute project), and we can launch on a hunch and a prayer.
Basic business plan: Provide all the theoretical customers on Integral Island (IAM included) with the actionable change model they are so direly are requiring. 2R can become the little engine that CAN!