we just wanted to let you know that this website is a work in progress, and that if you know there’s more to the Living Room Context then you can find here, you’re absolutely right. We’re working on making it available.

Together,

the Living Room Context stewards.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

“For civilization to continue, we must civilize ourselves.”- Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

To create collaborative change: ‘Paint a Bigger Picture; throw a better party.’ - Jean Robertson

What is the Living Room Context?
It is a self-educating, self-organizing network for experientially learning a new way of thinking, a collaborative culture mindset.

It is a framework of thinking about and exploration of the Big Picture of our time – ‘what kind of world is it, and what does it make sense to do’,
It is learning communities of people using this thinking to explore how to act and live from a radically new way of thinking, in various situations and activities, this mindset we’re calling the collaborative culture.

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Here’s the premise of this research, this experiment:
Let’s suppose/assume that:
a) a transformational cultural paradigm shift is actually occurring now in our lifetime

b) that we in the world of western culture are living in a world of two non-compatiblemindsets, frameworks of understanding, rather than one mindset which is in a process of growth or improvement. These two mindsets are roughly mapped out in systems terms in the coercive or vicious circle and the collaborative or benign circle.

c) that it is possible that we can each and together right now shift the framework of understanding of our lives wholly into the new paradigm, that it is actually a present choice.

d) that if we are drawn to the values and experiences of the new paradigm, it makes sense and it only makes sense to make that shift a personal and a collective priority, once aware of that possibility and a way to do it.

e) that in joining with others committed to making that shift, we liberate the resources to further evolve and elaborate the new paradigm into a fully embodied way of living and shaping the world.

f) that the way of joining with others to make that shift is by including ourselves in an ecosystem of experiencing – of thinking and acting – that embodies our best yet understanding of the mindset of the emerging ‘collaborative culture’.