About the Journal
The Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change is an independent, open-access journal dedicated to advancing the emergent field of awareness-based systems change. Through its focus on social fields, awareness-based systems change shines a light on the less visible dimensions of social and relational reality creation: the dynamics, processes, and levels of awareness that underlie and shape individual and collective behavior.
The journal takes an integrative and pluralistic approach to systems change, bridging theory and practice, research and action, inner and outer, personal and systemic. It seeks to expand and integrate first-, second-, and third-person epistemologies, informing systems change from multiple forms of knowing.
JASC is committed to:
- Addressing the ecological, social, and inner divides of our time by creating results that serve the well-being of all.
- Representing a broad range of diverse, cutting-edge voices in systems change, including those often unheard in or excluded from academic publishing.
- Making visible and interrogating the interconnected cycles at play in social reality creation: the regenerative forces of Presencing and the destructive patterns of Absencing.
- Engaging the phenomenon of Absencing in ways that are emancipatory and transformative, including examining where power lies, how it shapes our systems and structures, and how it is experienced both inside and between us.
- Further developing the tools, methods, and frameworks to strengthen the capacity to sense and actualize emerging potentials.
- Co-creating new, less restricting and more enabling narratives that generate action confidence leading to palpable systemic change.
For a full description of the journal’s article types and review processes, see the Article Formats and Review Protocols page. For submission instructions, see Submission Guidelines.
