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Touching the Community Soul
Touching the Community Soul is an action research and action learning program with the aim to contribute to the organizational principles of a human centered society. The experiential program started in 2009 as part of the research program of Nyenrode Business University.

It ran in ten annual cycles with each forty to sixty participants in The Netherlands in the Dutch language. In total over 40 businesses and societal organizations contributed with over 500 participants from different sectors such as health care, education, municipalities, community services, financial services and ICT.

The program has an emergent approach and evolved into exploring 'synchronicity as an organizing principle'. Synchronicity is a concept first introduced by Carl Jung which holds that events are meaningful coincidences if they occur with causal relationships yet seem to be meaningfully related.

During the program a framework has emerged that helps to create the conditions for synchronicity to occur. By discerning and becoming aware of three different perspectives on reality, one can create alignment allowing moments of synchronicity to be witnessed. The three perspectives are: the reality of action and matter, the reality of relationship with self and others and the reality of energy and information (the quantum field). The framework links to the Theory U developed by Otto Sharmer and Joseph Jaworski.

Throughout the years, the program has been highly appreciated receiving scores over 4.5 (out of 5) using the Change Mirror research approach developed by prof. dr. Thijs Homan of the Open University in The Netherlands.

Touching the Community Soul was initiated and facilitated by Erik Mandersloot (MBA) together with a team of fellow practitioners including Christy van den Putten, Dirk Oellibrandt, Annemiek Streng, Lise Schimmel and Elfried Klarenbeek. Erik has been a part time lecturer and researcher at Nyenrode Business University. between 1997 and 2018 and has been the managing partner of Aberkyn between 2016 and 2021.

References


 * 1) ^https://www.managementboek.nl/boek/9789082054903/touching-the-community-soul-caroline-dekker