EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN AS A MEANS FOR DEVELOPING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPACITY FOR ADVANCED SYSTEMS THINKING

摘要

Evolutionary design is proposed as a social technology for the development of therncognitive, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and ethical capacity of human systems from arnrelatively simplistic mechanical world view into a more complex systems world view.rnFour emerging practices challenge the mechanistic world view and encourage therndevelopment of higher orders of thinking: Mindfulness as opposed to intelligence,rnconstructivist education as opposed to traditional instruction, the Eastern development ofrnethical expertise as opposed to the Western view of ethical reasoning, and the practices ofrnpsychology of mind as opposed to the cognitive practices of counseling psychology. Arncase study of a small nonprofit youth organization demonstrates how evolutionary designrnis a meta-practice that encompasses these practices. Ken Wilber has called for anrn“integrative transformative practice” that supports people within the stage ofrndevelopment they may be operating and that, at the same time, encourages and supportsrntheir development to higher stages. Evolutionary design is an integrative transformativernpractice that transcends the limitations of management and results in an EvolutionaryrnLearning Community. It is found to be a meta-practice that allows people to consciouslyrnand continually redesign their own systems in order to raise their own consciousness,rntheir own levels of adult psychological development.