🐛💫🦋 Welcome to TRANSFORMING WORLDS!
🎧 In this episode we talk about Transforming SOCIAL CHANGE with renowned climate scientist, systems thinker, and transformation pioneer Karen O’Brien
💡 We explore quantum social change, fractals, flourishing, and what it means to become subjects, not just objects, of transformation.
shares the idea of “preferment”, why integrity matters more than ever, and how we can shift from collapse to coherence, one ripple at a time. We talk about agency, mattering, and the courage to live in alignment with what we hope to co-create. This conversation is both deeply intellectual and profoundly personal.🌍 About Karen O’Brien
Karen O’Brien is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also co-founder of cCHANGE, an organization that supports public engagement with transformations to sustainability. Karen’s research emphasizes the social and human dimensions of climate change and implications for human security. Her current research focuses on the relationship between climate change adaptation and transformations to sustainability, with an emphasis on the role of creativity, collaboration, empowerment, and narratives. She is particularly interested in the role of beliefs, values, worldviews, and paradigms in generating conscious social change. Her recent books include You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World and Climate and Society: Transforming the Future (with Robin Leichenko). Karen has been named by Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. In 2021 she was co-recipient of the BBVA Foundations Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Climate Change. Karen is currently co-chair of the International Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Transformative Change Assessment.
🔗 Links:
Substack: https://quantumsocialchange.substack.com
cCHANGE: https://cchange.no
LinkedIn: https://no.linkedin.com/in/karenlindaobrien
You matter more than you think: https://www.youmattermorethanyouthink.com
📚 Sources & Authors Referenced:
You Matter More Than You Think — Karen O’Brien
IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
Otto Scharmer, Theory U
Donella Meadows, systems leverage points
Thomas Hübl, collective trauma
Joanna Macy, active hope
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