Ism Ala Mussama
Announcement of Our Name Change: A Name True to Our Lived Experience Dear Partners, Collaborators, and Friends, We write to you from a place of deep resonance — shaped by our countless conversations, our co-evolving questions that question themselves, our co-reflections on lived experience, and moments of collective realisation of beauty within our communities, systems, […]
“I learned that in my community I learn” – A Short Story About the Mutually Arising Community Based Learning Ecosystems and Learners’ Agency
Special Focus : Learning Ecosystems: A New Paradigm in the Learning Experience “I learned that in my community I learn”. What Ghizlane, a young woman from the Zouitina (Olive Tree) neighborhood community in Tangier, Morocco, told us was so simple and lucid that one could almost take it for granted. In her words, we […]
A Short Story About the Tamkeen Process
This is a short story about the Tamkeen Process that we, Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development (Tamkeen), are undergoing. The communities we have the privilege to have a deeply human and co-creative relationship with and, to witness their Tamkeen Process, will be the ones to tell their own story. Tamkeen was co-founded in October […]
Understanding the Metamodern Turn – Realising the Existentiality of Love
European School of Governance, position paper #211219-2 by Louis Klein Realising the existentiality of love is the metamodern turn that allows us to transcend and dissolve the meaning crisis of modernity and safely navigate the challenges of the Anthropocene in the 21st century. In our attempts to escape the postmodern eddy, we find insight […]
Éducation la voie facilitatrice de la conscience
La Fondation Tamkeen vient de prouver, témoignages à l’appui, que des transformations métamorphiques de systèmes sociétaux sur la base du potentiel humain peuvent s’opérer. Il suffit juste d’un peu de volonté, d’un brin de confiance et d’une bonne pincée de confiance en soi. Vivement une nouvelle et réelle réforme dans le système éducatif au Maroc. […]
Appreciating Socio-Systemic Complexity Evaluation
European School of Governance (EUSG) and Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development (Tamkeen), joint research note #220330-1 by Karima Kadaoui (Tamkeen) and Louis Klein (EUSG) Keywords: appreciation, evaluation, metamorphic transformation, systems research, systemic inquiry, humanising social ecosystems For three years Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development and the European School of Governance engaged […]
Facilitating Evaluation of Metamorphic Transformation in Social Ecosystem
By: Louis Klein -European School of Governance, Berlin – Germany Karima Kadaoui– Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development, Tangier – Morocco Abstract This paper explores the growing understanding of facilitating evaluation as an evaluation that facilitates. In social innovation and societal transformation processes, we learned that classical evaluations promote a predominantly project managerial approach […]
On knowing and understanding
I have read a very interesting article recently on a concept called Tamkeen that is practised in Marokko. The article is called Beyond the magic – growing our understanding of societal metamorphosis and was written by Karima Kadaoui (Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development) and Louis Klein (European School of Governance – EUSG). In the […]
A living systems approach to achieving global equity for a healthy planet
Mamphela Ramphele,co-president of The Club of Rome 23 June 2022 – Until political and business leaders accept – and act on the knowledge – that we are all part of an interdependent living system, we cannot achieve global equity or a healthy planet. The good news is that The Club of Rome has identified turnaround […]
Beyond the magic – growing our understanding of societal metamorphosis
European School of Governance (EUSG) and Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development (Tamkeen), joint research note #210601 by Karima Kadaoui (Tamkeen) and Louis Klein (EUSG) Keywords: Societal metamorphosis, systems change; open research ecosystem, societal development, metamorphic transformation, learning ecosystem, community development, humanising systems, systemic inquiry, social innovation, systemic impact, metamorphic niche, locus of value, […]