Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
Peggy Holmanis a management and training consultant for business, non-profit, and governmental organizations. She is a co-founder and board member of the Open Space Institute, which supports learning and practices for self-organization in our social systems. She collaborated in creating “Journalism that Matters,” a network of conversations among journalists that is generating new roles and organizational forms for today’s emerging information-sharing, open source society. She also developed a theory of emergence in social systems that describes how diversity and dissonance can bring forth emergent insights, deep community, and coherent action. Peggy Holman is a co-author of the first and second editions ofThe Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems.