As we enter the Anthropocene, considerations of how we navigate our many crises towards a generative future have precipitated a hypothesis that one feature all the crises have in common is the misuse and the mis-distribution of human social power. Inspired by the author’s experience as a social entrepreneur and reflective practitioner, research was conducted into the literature on governance, organizational development, and individual development which resulted in the identification of a new theoretical framework for power and communication. This was further developed into a meta-praxis for healthy power sharing in all kinds of organizations. Tools for measuring healthy power in organizations and individuals were deployed to identify what changes occurred via the use of the practices. While more research is needed, the preliminary findings indicate that organizations experience an increase in effectiveness and efficiency, including lower employee turnover and better organizational responsiveness to changing conditions both inside and outside of the organization.
With the anecdotal and empirical evidence pointing to the potential of such a meta-praxis for enabling better cooperative coordination, the author posits that our ability to successfully transform our meta-crisis relies on our capacity to create a global coordination system based on the further research and evolution of the meta-praxis through the contributions of the many scholars, researchers, and practitioners invested in understanding and enabling our cooperative capacity as a species.
