Realising metamorphic transformation in the mirror of Tamkeen: Growing a shared understanding from co‐reflected lived experiences

Abstract

AbstractOur shared understanding of the being and becoming of social ecosystems informs and forms their being and becoming. Hence, a process that grows a shared understanding from co‐reflected lived experiences is as much an inquiry process as it is a transformation process. Such a process recognises and realises the evolution of the ontology, epistemology, and axiology of social ecosystems. Such a process recognises and realises humanising social ecosystems in a process of metamorphic transformation. This paper shares the experience‐based, relationship‐oriented, co‐created and co‐facilitated, process of inquiry, learning and understanding, embedded in epistemic humility, trusting our human potential, trusting our humanity, realising the essentiality and existentiality of love, as experienced in the context of the Moroccan Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development and its partners and co‐reflected in the mirror of a socio‐systemic complexity evaluation. This paper invites a growing understanding of metamorphic transformation beyond the prevalent discourses of social innovation and systems change, and it explores its implications for critical systems research transcending itself in the mirror of Tamkeen.