How Change Works
BFNow Self-Study Module 6 – Overview
[This is part of the BFNow Self-Study section of this site. For more about this section, please look at About BFNow Self-Study and BFNow Self-Study Orientation.]
This module focuses on how cultural change works and how you can contribute to it as a cultural co-evolver. It’s a big topic, central to what the world so urgently needs. You can make a difference.
Key Concepts and Terms
These are part of the shared language we are building throughout the course. Many, but not all, of these are also in the titles of the explorations:
complex adaptive systems
agents
emergence
evolution
punctuated equilibrium
diffusion of innovations
co-evolver
We will also be building on concepts from various presentations, including:
working with the momentum of history (What Time Is It? Part 5)
Being a Co-Evolver (The Stoa presentation)
A visual map for this week’s content
Here’s the diagram with the titles for each exploration plus the previous modules for context. The curved arrows show connections where one exploration’s particularly influences or feeds into another. The angular arrows show the influence from a whole module, sometimes on a whole later module and sometime on a particular exploration.
Module 6 Explorations
Complex Adaptive Systems – Exploration 1
Cultural Evolution – Exploration 2
Diffusion of Innovations– Exploration 3