This guide is offered by members of the Cohere+ project (2022-2025, Erasmus+), which has emerged around the observation that weaving coherence between inspired actors is a key element of success for the global movement of transformative systems change.
The Cohere+ project holds that many brilliant pioneers, visionaries, researchers and activists around the world are working towards systemic shifts in the way the world is governed, from separate and destructive to generative and unified. At the same time, these pioneers don’t always see and experience themselves as an interconnected community yet, for several reasons, thereby weakening their overall outreach and impact.
Cohere+ has started to explore this challenge in many different ways over the last 3 years, both in theory and in a practical sense. First, we are trying to understand the nature and essence of coherence as such. Second, we argue that coherence could be framed as an overarching – yet implicit – quality that is at the core as to bringing a holistic level of consciousness to life in all dimensions of our being- in the intrapersonal as well as in the interpersonal level, in cultures, systems and in our relationship to planet and cosmos.
Besides this substantial exploration, Cohere+’s action research also focuses on specifically identifying the factors and elements that help to build or increase the level and quality of coherence in fields of transformative change agents. On this basis, we are developing practical tools and practices to enhance their learning capacity, and to actively create “islands” or “communities of coherence” that can have significant impact both individually and as a whole.
This guide is organized in four main parts.
