Ideas and/as Change Models

How do underlying behaviors and assumptions give rise to systemic harm — and how can we transform them from within?

These models are not abstract ideals — they arise from lived observation, applied experimentation, and systems research across education, governance, livelihood, and epistemology. They offer causal insights and strategic leverage points for those navigating complexity, harm, and transformation.

Why do people reshape themselves to fit systems even if they know are unhealthy? — Allocation Dependence

How can one's self-actualization/transformation lead to resource regeneration, no matter where their starting points are? — Learning by Caring

How can participation in media production shift passive, consumerist dynamics and heal immediate relations? — Reflexive Media

In an increasingly VUCA world, how do I design a vocation that’s aligned with who I am — and the world around me? — Care-Passion-Talent Framework

Where does the transformative potential of education truly lie? — Education as Ecosystem Weaving

What if academia itself must be redesigned to stop reproducing the problems it studies? — Academia as Distributed Knowledge-Ecosystems for Collective Transformation

How can social science research truly empower agency for systems change—without reinforcing the very systems we seek to transform? — Critical Realist Agent-Based Approach

Why do our attempts at control often make us more vulnerable? — Controllability Dependence

How can we navigate competing visions of change in a post-Enlightenment world? — Post-Enlightenment Horizons of Cultural, Social, and Educational Change

How can non-Western traditions help science overcome its pitfalls? — East Asian Philosophies of Science

Can rational judgment ever solve the post-truth condition — or does it push us further apart? — From "Incommunicability" to "Response-able Awareness"

How would the Metaverse as a new ontological condition shed light on the non-apocalyptic threats of artificiality? — Redefining "Metaverse"

Is flourishing compatible with a system that exploits deficiency as its fuel? — Money Dependence

What if atypical statehood becomes an advantage rather than a disadvantage? — Post-Westphalian Governance