Figure 5.2: A) The Cartesian Paradigm Non-systemic thinking and B) Systemic thinking (Source: Created by the author) Many authors see a lack of agency in individuals leading to a lack of active participation since our economic system, characterised by what Earle et al. (2016) called ”an econocracy,” has reduced individuals to passive participants. In this system, political and economic priorities are increasingly detached from the needs and values of everyday people. Individuals struggle to understand and influence the economic and political narratives that shape their lives (Lomeli Aguirre, 2024). It can be argued that we have become economic agents with an outsourced agency, living by adaptive preferences in dysfunctional systems that we have passively created with our tacit acceptance. The MoA is a framework that help us surpass this deadlock and to open a new mindset, taking us from a passive observer to a collective agent empowered towards economic well-being. 5.2 The Mandala of Agency MoA presents a versatile and dynamic framework designed to promote agency that will empower positive change. In contrast to traditional topdown approaches to change, the MoA adopts a bottom-up, values-driven process that empowers individuals and organisations to align their values with collective goals. This paradigm shift creates pathways for an economy of well-being to emerge. it comes to organisational change (seen in Figure 5.2 (B)). If individuals in organisations are not able to make this connection, then businesses will struggle to transition to responsible agents. Figure 5.2: A) The Cartesian Paradigm Non-systemic thinking and B) Systemic thinking (Source: Created by the author) Many authors see a lack of agency in individuals leading to a lack of active participation since our economic system, characterised by what Earle et al. (2016) called ”an econocracy,” has reduced individuals to passive participants. In this system, political and economic priorities are increasingly detached from the needs and values of everyday people. Individuals struggle to understand and influence the economic and political narratives that shape their lives (Lomeli Aguirre, 2024). It can be argued that we have become economic agents with an outsourced agency, living by adaptive preferences in dysfunctional systems that we have passively created with our tacit acceptance. The MoA is a framework that help us surpass this deadlock and to open a new mindset, taking us from a passive observer to a collective agent empowered towards economic well-being. 25 5.2 The Mandala of Agency
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