What New Paradigm Prototyping means to OpenEdge, and why we believe it is important.

Where are we at, and where do we begin?
We may believe in the dreams and and values of the existing system, or we may not, yet cannot see that anything better is possible. We may feel overwhelmed by what is called of us to change things, both individually and globally, so we may focus on making our own lives as best we can. We may not even know the significance and impact of our individual and collective thinking and actions. Or we may be passionate about some kind of change, and committed to making it happen.

At OpenEdge, we understand that dominant and normalised ways of thinking and functioning in our communities are a set of evolving ideas over time, sculpted by the perspectives and interests of those with authority to create ideas about the world (e.g authorised knowledge holders, decision makers, moral, spiritual and political leaders). As such we currently find ourselves in an evolutionary lag, where somehow we have a knowing of another way, yet are bound by existing beliefs, systems and conditions implicit in the age we were raised.
By necessity, our answers must be rooted in our individual circumstances, and invented, freshly, by each of us based on who we are, what sphere of influence we are in, what trauma we have suffered, what the circumstances of our life, and therefore the possible consequences to taking bold action, might be, and what we ultimately want for ourselves and the world." 
~Miki Kashtan.
What will new paradigm prototyping involve, what will we do?
  • In OpenEdge we try to understand our individual and collective selves through layers of questions of 'why?', until we get right down to the bottom. Only from this place can we be confident that we are reconstructing, 'how can we be instead?', with a new, different connection to Life and our lived experiences. 
  • We hold ourselves and each other in compassionate curiosity, ready to collectively face and grieve the tragedy in the answers we may find to the questions 'why?'.
  • Our explorations build in personal emancipation with transformation in our organisations, groups and communities. In this way we are restoring relationships personally and structurally, individually and collectively, creating new ways of organising locally and globally, based on a consciousness of interdependent needs.
  • We offer inputs to reflect, learn, explore, experience, question, research, practice, design, embody, test and compassionately critically reflect.​

Transforming how we understand 'identity' and how we relate to conflict, are essential if we are working in new economics, with children, international development, prison reform, ecology, social justice, or anything in between...
Whatever your personal passion, or your professional area of focus, 
OpenEdge invites you to expand your transformative edges with 
​our Otherness Lab, Festival of Conflict, and Transition Lounge!
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