How do we envision and then enact the future for a vital California?

A vital California is important not only for its citizens but the nation and world as well.  There is a need for a new perspective on how engage the myriad of challenges facing the state. It is the Center for Human Emergence – California’s (CHE-CA) intention to work with others to create the superordinate goals and overarching vision that will better enable the health and vitality of California’s communities, institutions and businesses to emerge by the year 2020.

CHE-CA proposes a problem-solving methodology with the power, precision and complexity to span over human groupings to construct the unique cultural, economic and political structures that overarch the mountains and valleys of those unique human groupings. To do so we need to see the patterns of diverse Californian communities and institutions as if looking through a prism — where all the various colors of worldviews are made visible, each with a different “tint” on the world. The goal is to understand the needs of all the mindsets, so as to begin to craft “full-spectrum” solutions which are fundamentally different from those that a single perspective would offer:

• A design a strategy to mesh people, geography, and resources together into a workable solution for all who live in California;
• The capacity to uncover the deeper dynamics within different communities and institutions, as well as between them;
• A way to defuse the ideologies that produce “us vs. them” and then craft decisions and measure priorities not against the past, nor based on who is responsible for what;
• The ability to draw upon all of the solutions which are currently available, as well as many that haven’t been thought of yet.

It is crucial at this time and place in our history to be open to new models of development that transcend and include diverse political preferences, ethnicities, religions and other categories of difference that result in stereotypes, stigmas, and polarization. The question is how we design the best structures for meeting the needs of the people as they live and develop in the ways that are most natural to them, in open, adaptive systems that are appropriate to their life conditions.