panarchy loop

September 11th, 2021

• polarity management - maybe isomorphic with panarchy loop, and it seems to map onto left hemisphere/right hemisphere dynamics
  • talks about either-or thinking
  • breathing in, breathing out
  • sources:
    • Managing Polarities Of Wholeness
      • Balancing and Leading Head-Heart Tensions in Schools
      • The Power of "And"
    • Polarity Management
      • A Summary Introduction
      • Barry Johnson, September 1998

What would a fluid or meta-systematic team coordination app look like?

• One thing that seemingly very few apps have is... huh, I find myself wanting to describe this in terms of compost or the dissolution part of the panarchy loop. I think this is partially by analogy to what I've been calling staleness. But yeah, in slack, one example of this is that old channels that haven't been used kind of stick around. But also it's really hard to find old group DMs! They do vanish, but in a dysfunctional way.

Relationship Panarchy

• Also, for people familiar with systems theory, the image of the panarchy loop may come to mind.
  • • "Panarchy" as a concept was coined as an alternative to hierarchy that isn't simply anarchy. It recognizes the natural flows of growth and dissolution, as part of one larger whole.
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  • When a "break up" occurs, ie the end of some particular form of relationship, this isn't the end of "the relationship"
    • first of all because continuing to be in close contact may be possible & desired
    • secondly because even if close contact doesn't happen, the two people have forever affected each others' lives and the lives of those around them, and those impacts continue to be real

• (Since I had this original idea, and wrote the above, I've come appreciate the panarchy loop arc even more, as a phenomenon in my own relationships.)