One of the greatest barriers needing to fall is between our values and actions. For this, we must understand the systems which we live within and reproduce, so we can transform both them and ourselves. Organisations play a crucial role in bridging the individual and the systemic, and so we focus on people's organisational life: their jobs.

We have a simple understanding of how needed systemic changes towards a more compassionate and sustainable world will occur. We call this the "5 A model of personal-systemic transformation":

Awareness > Agency > Association > Action > Assessment

> Awareness
The first step is to become inwardly and outwardly aware, meaning aware of our mental processes and also the social and environmental systems we live within and co-create. This involves an awareness of the plight of others, and of oneself as as injured by that wider plight. It involves a shift in consciousness of the self.
>>Agency
The next step arises from this awareness of our involvement in reproducing systems and our compassion for others. It involves nominated oneself as an agent, as someone who can change things.
>>>Association
As one moves from an awareness of agency toward taking actions, there is a need to associate with others, from all walks of life, to involve them in the needed activity.
>>>>Action
All forms of action, including but not limited to associating, that address key aspects of system reproduction, are then needed. This involves considering the regulations, social norms and assumptions, and resource usage that maintains systems.
>>>>>Assessment
The impact of ones actions on oneself, others and the systems as a whole, must be assessed and fed back into ones awareness, and consequent sense of agency, ones associating and subsequent action.

We seek to apply this model so people can succeed in their jobs while transforming their organisations and the systems around organisations, so both they and their organisations contribute to a more compassionate and sustainable world. We believe that doing this requires a wide range of skills and knowledge, from pyschology to organisational change, from knowledge of interorganisational relations to insights from new sciences, from deep understanding of rights and democracy to knowledge of our current global political economy. We see parts of this process being offered today, but not the whole: this is why we are here.