The IFIS colloquium "Exploring coherence" was held online in June 2025 and participants were invited to experiment, explore, reflect and exchange around the topic of coherence. Here is a summary of participants' experiences, with some of the original quotes, prompted by the 2 kick-off question
Where do you notice coherence or incoherence in your communities?
Image: "On Embodiment" Art House Dallas
Introduction: Why Body-Mindedness Matters
We live in times of great complexity, fragmentation, and uncertainty. Many people sense the dissonance between what they know intellectually and how they actually live. We aspire to balance, presence, and clarity, yet our daily lives often pull us into cycles of stress, reactivity, and disconnection.
IFIS is a full partner in the cooperation project Cohere+ project, which is supported by the EU Erasmus+ funding. It started with a bold vector goal: "Field intelligence and Technology to uplevel the collective capacity of social change agents. Learning together how to transform a Metacrisis into a Metamorphosis" .
Abstract
The Strategic Partnership Cohere+ explores the quality of what we call coherence in social fields, in particular the field of of social change makers working towards transformative change. The underlying assumption is that if groups of people are in a coherent state, cooperation flows much more easily and effortlessly than if there was some kind of unaddressed tension or conflict in the shared relational space.
Two years ago, my interest in the topic of coherence started off with one of my usual early morning “downloads”.
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