The purpose of the sessions in this Workstream is to contribute to a swift transition beyond fossil fuels by enabling participants to
- See their contribution in the context of the whole ecosystem of initiatives
- Better understand strategic leverage points for shifting structures to concentrate efforts
- Find ways for the new Santa Marta Process to support and strengthen other initiatives.
Megan Seneque is currently Visiting Fellow with the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Honorary Research Fellow with the Susanna Wesley Foundation, University of Roehampton; Research Associate with the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Australian Catholic University.
She is an Associate with the Presencing Institute, Cambridge, MA, a global organisation building capacity for social, ecological and systemic regeneration; and with Orange Compass, an Australian-based organisation that works with change makers on their journey to transform systems and shape more just, equitable futures. She has a PhD in Systems Science from the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull.
Megan’s career as an academic and as a social process and development professional began in South Africa at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, where she was involved in long-term work on curriculum transformation in the transition to post-Apartheid South Africa. Megan was lead designer and Founding Director of a Leadership Centre at UKZN. All research and teaching programs were framed in the context of application in order to address the complex problems facing the continent, and to theorise leadership for just, equitable development.
In her work across the private, public, education and NGO sectors – in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, the UK and other global contexts – Megan has continued to bring together research as systemic intervention, supported by systemic design and facilitation. Current and recent projects include accompanying the Community and Social Interventions division of the World Health Organisation on developing and practising a new research paradigm in relational community engagement, with prototypes in 4 countries in the Western Pacific Region. These were intended to create the conditions for systemic change and relational health and flourishing. She has recently completed a 2-year praxis-based initiative, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, building a Network of Networks for a global flourishing ecosystem. The process of intervention itself brings together diverse knowledge systems for co-engaged and transformative flourishing research.