> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://awakening-coop-lab.gitbook.io/adleryang/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://awakening-coop-lab.gitbook.io/adleryang/adler-yang.md).

# Adler Yang

## 🍀Welcome

I’m a systems researcher, educator, and innovator committed to studying, designing, and actualizing **mindful**, **convivial**, and **regenerative ecologies**. Since my teens, I've been exploring: 

> *What are the **common mechanisms** underlying seemingly disparate social problems?*\
> *How can anyone transform systems from within — starting **wherever they are**?*

Many of the world’s most urgent problems aren’t caused by a few bad actors — they emerge from the complex ways we co-exist, adapt, and organize. Systems thinking and complexity science remind us: wicked problems are often *not imposed*, but *self-organized from our interactions*. 

At the heart of my work is this shared responsibility — a kind of collective karma — and the understanding that genuine change begins not with waiting, blaming, or escaping, but with ***embodied transformation*** or ***be(com)ing the change***. 

We can take care of the world by enabling each other’s self-actualization.

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## 🔍 Explore My Work

🗣 [About](/adleryang/about.md)

🌱 [Ideas and/as Change Models](/adleryang/ideas-and-as-change-models.md)\
How do underlying behaviors and assumptions give rise to systemic harm — and how can we transform them from within?

🕸️ [Projects](/adleryang/projects.md)\
Ecosystemic change doesn't need to be monumental — even small projects can be woven together to orchestrate with one another.

📚 [Publications](/adleryang/publications.md)

🎤 [Talks & Media](/adleryang/talks-and-media.md)

 💼[Experience, Education, and Honors](/adleryang/experience-education-and-honors.md)

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> *If we want the change the world, change ourselves.* \
> *Because we are the future.*

*— Adler Yang*