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On the 31/8/2025 our Cohere+ Project officially "closes" the doors, that the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU opened for our partnership 3 years ago. A great thank you to the EU for supporting this project!!
We started writing the proposal in 2021. The initial title was "FIT for change - Field Intelligence and Technology to uplevel the collective capacity of social change agents: Learning together how to transform a metacrisis into a metamorphosis". Since then our world has shape shifted in many, different and very unexpected ways, such that "learning together to transform a metacrisis" seems, now, in 2025, an almost self-evident necessity and one of the most important elements that the world is up against right now.
The project partners were The Hague Center of Global Governance (THC - Coordinator : NL), Institute for Integral Studies (IFIS: DE), Life Itself (FR), EMERGE (DE) and Ekskäret (SE).
With its focus on building capacities for collective skills of change agents and exploring the quality of coherence, we are so HAPPY and PROUD that our partnership of 5 European organisations in the field of adult development, integral politics, global governance, community building and media platform was able to develop and contribute to
- mapping over 300 organisations of change agents working towards system transformation and understand the gaps in their key challenges and capacities
- pulse and inform "field intelligence" through in-depth essays and interviews with key actors in the field, as well as co-organise larger summits
- conduct complexity-informed action research, using Sensemaker®, in different change agent communities around coherence building, collecting at the same time real-life stories and collective patterns
- make the vibration of coherence tangible in in-person citizen dialogues, round tables and political salons
- use "technology" to create a new online platform focusing on coherence building, in self, groups and larger collectives,
- develop a specific taxonomy around coherence building and corresponding learning journeys (online, offline and online-live) to support collective capacities and skills of paradigmatic change agents and their respective communities and target groups
- create a unique guide on "communities of coherence" with a wealth of materials, approaches, tools, links etc for those who would like to experience more lightness and efficiency in their network or groups of change makers and experiment with a so-called "Coherence Barometer"
- publish a chapter "Deepcasting the IDG - Exploring the cross-dimensional quality of coherence in the book Inner Development Goals - Stories of collective leadership in Action" (DeGruyterBill)
- contribute to the emerging phenomenon that has gained considerable traction over the last 3 years, which is the concept and experience of coherence in social system, often referred to as "islands of coherence"
- really strengthen the respective organisations, which in fact is one of the main objectives of the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership Programme
It was a journey of delightful co-creation and synchronicities, leading to meaningful and authentic relations and amazing results.
However, coherence building is always a dynamic process providing you inevitably with quite some tensions and incoherences along the way. But instead of shying away from it, as often happens in such collaborations, communities and partnerships, we accepted and held these tensions well most of the time, only to generate new insight, ideas, results and impact.
If you are curious to know more, please go to our Cohere+ Platform and start your own "deep-dive into coherence". The attached PDF also showcases all our results, materials, links and impact.
With Gratitude
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