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safe spaces, 6064, 121, 127

Samper, Ernesto, 76

Santa Fe Institute of Complexity Sciences, 108

Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 85

scenarios

Destino Colombia, 62

Guatemalan, 11920

methodology, 80

Mont Fleur, 2325

at Royal Dutch/Shell, 1317, 85, 87, 105, 131

Scharmer, Otto, 37, 42, 9192, 102, 122, 124

scientific innovation, 109

screenwriting , 102

sea shell analogy, 11920

self-reflection. See reflectiveness

Senge, Peter, ixxii, 90, 124

sensitivity, 9092, 119

separation, 84, 102, 123

September 11, 110

shared commitment, 103, 124

silence, 87, 1078, 11618, 123, 130

Sloan School of Management. See MIT Sloan School of Management

Slovo, Joe, 24

"social capital," 30

social complexity, 2, 3132, 50, 75

social dynamics, 89

See also group dynamics

Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), 80, 81, 9091, 114

South Africa

apartheid system, 2122, 33, 79

and generative complexity, 80

and hope, 132

as microcosm, 33

post-apartheid, 3, 27, 2933, 39, 79

scenario project and Royal Dutch/Shell, 1920

social customs in, 89

transition and, ixx, 2, 41, 43, 85

University of the North workshop, 8788

See also Mont Fleur workshops; Royal Dutch/Shell

South African Communist Party, 20, 24

Spain, 3943

Sparks, Allister, 25, 33

speaking up, 6364, 129

speechmaking, 6869

spirit, 118, 123

See also connection

Stark, Robert, 123

status quo, 5758, 65, 13132

Steel, Gary, 85

Stoessner, Alfredo, 45, 46

storytelling

and creating new realities, 9798, 102

power of, 5455, 57, 12324

and silence, 11618

subjectivity , 9092, 100101, 104

subtlety, 38, 55, 1034

Supreme Court (Paraguay), 45

Sydbury, Ontario (Canada), 54, 55

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership (Jaworski), 27, 74

systemic processes

Argentine Dialogue and, 96101

and change, 85, 131

and generative dialogue, 92, 1035

and Guatemalan scenarios, 11922

value of, 32, 7576

wounds and, 127