New Community Society for Organizational Learning

Italia

Declaration of Intent

October 11, 2011

1. Our Intent

Starting from the context of the thinking which is emerging in the twenty-first century, and from the project of the global evolution of SoL, we intend to give birth to an open, unifying, horizontal, participatory and generative organization.

An organization in which to apply the systemic disciplines of SoL and its global partners, to pursue learning and organizational well-being in every area of life.

An organization in which the theory and the practice find the right union, to become a major national hub of the economical, sociological, psychological and management’s culture of the twenty-first century, and a real agent of change.

1. Our Intent - follows

We intend to propose a real and concrete change, and put a strong focus on communication to pursue a wide dissemination of the messages and the practices of SoL and its global partners, like Presencing Institute, Team Accademy, Tellus Institute, World Cafè Network, etc.

And we intend to keep in mind and deepen the cultural particularities that characterize Italy, which are also been a factor of world-class excellence in historical periods like the Renaissance, in order to identify which are the positive forces we can now work on more closely.

To do this we intent to join several people, corporations and organizations that demonstrate a propensity toward the practice of humanistic, systemic and evolutionary management.

 

 

Society SoL Italy : people, companies,

organizations, institutions

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National Change Labs sponsored

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Founding SoL – Sol Evolution 2.0 – SoL Europe - Presencing Institute – Dialogos ALIA Institute – Berkana Institute - Art of Hosting – Barrett Value Center

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2. Who we are

We’re a group of people with the passion of organizational learning, humanistic management, innovation and change.

We have met different times since May 2011 and now we have the good will to embrace new perspectives of leadership, connection, and organizational evolution.

Several of us want to create a strong community in Italy sharing examples and experiences of organizational performance involving different leaders at different levels, developing engagement across multicultural environments, 

The professionals of the group are all experienced trainers, coaches, counsellors, facilitators and experts in change management, linked also to different associations and research groups about complexity and systems thinking.

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Many of us published several articles and books on these themes.

All the people present have a strong passion for recent evolutionary and leadership methodologies, and are inspired by the participatory management and by the need to work to foster a healthy and concrete Human and Social Development.

At the moment the people who have already given their support for the founding of the community, listed below, are over 50, while the total active contacts with interested people are nearly 150.

With the people there are three not for profit organizations as founders of the community :- World is Changing,- European Society of Ecopsicology,- ManagerZen.

2. Who we are - follows

Alberto Bazzan Alessandra DadaltAlessandro MinelliAlessandro Rossi Angelo Caruso Anna Borellini Antonio Memoli Barbara Principi Bruna PutzuluCarla Galanti Claudio Vettor Daniela MattiaDino GrappusoEgidio Missarelli Elena Franzini Enrico GirardiFabio DedolaFabio Fantuzzi Fabrizio Toscano Federica GhettiFernando dell’Agli

Francesco Mondora Gabriella Vigo Gerardo De Luzenberger Gian Carlo ManzoniGianluca PalombaGianmarco BorGiovanni Soffietti Giuseppe Gerardo CiarambinoGiuseppe MineoGiuseppe Monti Giustiniano La VecchiaGregorio Di Leo Jacopo NicelliLara Elli Leonardo PreviLorenzo Campese Luca Melcore Luigi Spiga Luisa Carcangiu BayreLuisa FerrarioMassimo Garau

2. Who we are - follows

Marcella DanonMarco GargiuloMarinella de SimoneMario Gastaldi Martina Cinicola Massimo Vavalle Maurizio Testa Michele Mondora Myriam Ines Giangiacomo Nicola CoccoPaola De VecchiPaolo Polverosi Pierandrea Vacca Roberto Casini Sabrina Cantono Sandra CapriStefano DiniStefano Monti

3. Why we are doing this

We strongly believe in the possibility of giving a substantial contribution to the emerging evolutionary shift, at all levels: micro, meso, macro e mundo. This shift is grounded on an the emerging culture increasingly oriented to new levels of awareness, that moves the attention structure from the egocentric and ethnocentric level to ecocentric and worldcentric.

The evolutionary shift can become real mainly through the aggregation of Community of Practice able to address real challenges, through the adoption of new social technologies - proposed by SoL and its global partners like Presencing Institute - as tools for a sustainable evolution that starts necessarily from self.

3. Why we are doing this - follows

In today’s world, individuals and organizations specifically need to acquire new evolutionary skills, especially oriented to the dimension of being and becoming and grounded on humanistic, systemic and transpersonal approaches.

In our hearts, the SoL community is the proper context in which to grow and help others growing, where to share significant experiences for the benefits of the whole community, where to develop new knowledge and cultivate those states of presencing, necessary to let the emerging future emerge.

4. Our Vision, Mission and Values

Mission:• Translating the values promoted by SOL in new forms of

organization of work and life to improve personal, business, social and global life.

• Addressing the individual and collective action towards a greater awareness of the implications and consequences of every action.

• Arousing the attention towards a broader view of reality, 'for processes and not events'.

• Educating toward a culture of encounter, dialogue and collaboration.• Promoting mindfulness and awareness of the interconnected nature

of the world in order to know how to open up to the future and how to draw emerging sustainable and effective processes.

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Vision:• Life is ever changing and the human being has an important role in

the evolutionary process, as an individual and as a species.• The development of mindfulness leads to recognize the richness

and distinctiveness of our own individual nature.• The awareness of interconnection, which regulates every aspect of

reality in which we live, can prepare to meet each other - human and nonhuman - with attention, respect and empathy.

• From the combination of these two stages, the individual and collective personal growth, arise new forms of organization in Economy, Labour and Social Affairs, consistent with values that promote life and well-being of all Earth's ecosystem.

4. Our Vision, Mission and Values - follows

Values:• Collaboration – attention to the mutual needs.• Sustainability – consistency with the ecosystem’s parameters.• Common sense – intelligence aimed at individual and collective wellbeing.• Sharing – awareness of common destiny.• Compassion – the ability to resonate emotionally to the existence of others.• Responsibility – ability to recognize and accept the consequences of our

own thoughts and actions toward society, humanity, sentient beings, Creation.

• Constructive Critical sense - the ability to argue, to refute without condemning and excommunicating.

• Flexibility - opening to the unexpected, ability to adapt to an open and non-mechanistic future.

• Creativity – in developing new forms, new processes for a living, all, well.• Beauty – as an ‘external’ indicator of the quality of our own actions.• Joy – as an ‘internal’ indicator of the quality of our own actions.

5. Who we are going to connect and how we think to become a big group

Our intent is to talk to a wide range of publics, well aware of the complexity that this option necessary means. We believe that it is not the time anymore, for closed elitist circles; therefore, we need to be open and available to facilitate a memetic diffusion of evolutionary meta-principles on which individual and organization evolution is grounded.

On one side, natural interlocutors for us are “immune carriers” and testimonials of the emerging global awakening virus that is spreading worldwide. They are the change agents diffusing the new post-rationalistic and post-tayloristic paradigms of XXI century, as Systemic Thinking and its evolutions, Theory of Complexity, the Evolution Theory applied to social science, Management 2.0, etc.

On the other side, our intent is not to marginalize no one, but include any group or people, by activating proper communication channels with any individual, professional, organization, institution, always respecting their identity and evolutionary level, characterized by different values, languages, tools and worldviews. 

5. Who we are going to connect and how we think to become a big group - follows

In order to give a strong contribution to the goal of spreading SoL Evolution culture and activities, we wish to adopt several methods and tools as: community building initiatives, social networking, interviews to leaders and testimonials, training and convivial events, diffusion of articles, books, videos, also connecting with publishers and editors available for the translation of significant works from their original language in Italian.

We intend to use our enthusiasm, creativity and imagination - characteristic of Italian culture - in order to facilitate the viral diffusion of SoL initiatives in our country and possibly in the world.

6. The association, the governance, the location and the communication tools

Legal form Association not recognized. It 'the most straightforward form of association that allows direct participation of all members and associates. Registration between the not-for-profit organizations.

Members They include six categories of members with different membership fees: - Institutional organizations: national, regional and local.- Companies: multinationals and large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises - Not-for-profit organizations: foundations, associations - Individual members: ordinary, young people.

The input of members to the association will be presented by another member. The voting rights will be extended to all categories of members.

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Governance   Governing Board: composed of 7 members elected by the general assembly of all members to ensure the best representation of the different categories   Advisory Board: composed of 7 members to be appointed from among persons of prominent national level. The members shall be appointed by the shareholders on the proposal of the Board of Directors.   Scientific Committee: composed of 7 members to be appointed from among experts in different topics of SoL and its global partners. The members shall be appointed by the shareholders on the proposal of the Governing Board.

6. The association, the governance, the location and the communication tools - follows

Location

The national headquarters is in Milan and will initially be domiciled at a temporary office.     Communication Tools

Creation of the website, through which initiatives and all communication will be updated with members and potential members.

Preparation of a monthly digital newsletter.

Continuous and dynamic presence on social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook) through the opening pages and groups.

7. What do we want to do and how we are starting

With the SoL Italy intend gradually to develop the following activities:1. constantly treating the growth of the community with off-line and

on-line activities that involve people,2. promote at national level the culture, values, projects and practices

of SoL and its global partners,3. to maximize international relations within the SoL of many

community members in order to facilitate the exchange of experiences,

4. io collaborate in the organization and the attraction of participating in SoL conferences and meetings in Europe and worldwide,

5. to organize regular meetings and events of national level,6. to organize in Italy seminars and meetings of the Global SoL and

its global partners,7. to collaborate for Italian edition and diffusion of books by authors of

SoL and its global partners,

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8. to undertake research on issues of Systems Thinking, the Learning Organization, the Presencing, Leadership, etc..,

9. to promote the birth in Italy of the national branches of schools like the Global Academy of SoL and the U School,

10. to promote large-scale change projects (Change Labs) with particular reference to the themes and methodologies of Sustainability and Capitalism 3.0.

For the initial development of the community we’ll do the following activities:11. maximum dissemination of the project to reach a critical mass of

the founders of the community between people, companies and organizations,

12. to start the process of official recognition by the Founding SoL to become an officially recognized SoL community,

13. the formal establishment of a not for profit society with its governing bodies,

7. What do we want to do and how we are starting - follows

4. creation of a "container" by opening a website, an office, and activating a newsletter,

5. promotion monthly meetings to welcome new participants and strengthen the coordination group (the first retreat will be on 14-15th of October ),

6. identification of some suitable places for meetings in places of nature in the areas near Milan and Rome,

7. organization of a first official presentation to media specialists and generalists, to the business world and academia, to the world of culture, in the first half of 2012,

8. establishment of a team among those who have studied and are using the Theory U to do 30-50 interviews with national leaders in various business, philosophical, artistic, political fields.