power and freedom to change mental map

The Power and Freedom to Change Our Mental Maps : Why Changing Perceptions Is the Root of Transformation. (2026) by Aline Frankfort.

on aline from shapership site [https://www.shapership.com/about]: Provocative Creative and Strategic Thinker, Narrative Practionner, passionated by Imagination and Utopia, Artist, consultant, author, invited professor, TEDx Speaker, dyslexic enjoying to put the world upside down, inspired by her spiritual practices, Full Member of the Club of Rome, working for a better world, Aline is dedicated to open radically new and meaningful paths to a desirable future that can change the Present.. She helps people and teams reframe their mental maps, reinvent themselves and actively Shape their Futures.. Her passion since she was a child: * make the Future the Cause of the Present.. She is recognized for her conceptual, creative and strategic Thinking abilities as well as her capacity to provoke “Shifts in Minds for Shifts in Action“.. **She designs and facilitates non-linear, inclusive, dialogue-based strategic exploration processes conceived to engage and motivate individuals and groups of all sizes and types to make deep changes in the ways they see and think.

*perhaps we do too much of that?.. rather.. ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

**need to try self-talk as data vai idiosyncratic jargon et al.. to get to that itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday

via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2045443720045051909?s=20]:

From a friend in Belgium:

* Book: The Power and Freedom to Change Our Mental Maps : Why Changing Perceptions Is the Root of Transformation. Aline Frankfort.

https://payhip.com/b/bVx6e

“I’ve just finished a new ebook and I’m making it available for free.

This text starts from a radical question:

< ” What if the real problem were not only the absence of solutions, but the mental maps from which we keep producing them? ” ?

huge.. to need for global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake

all thinking/data to date from sea world.. black science of people/whales law et al

For a long time, I have been exploring one core intuition: our mental maps are not the landscape, but they define how we see it, interpret it, and shape it.

whalespeak et al.. keeping us from us

This ebook brings together many of the themes at the heart of my work:

..

radicality as going to the roots

to me.. nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem

Shapership as a living practice

the Future as a cause of the Present

It is both a manifesto and a practical invitation: to break free from old boxes, to unlock creative imagination, and to fundamentally reinvent the way we participate in shaping the Future.”

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

notes/quotes from 71 pg pdf of book:

[e book – the-power-and-freedom-to-change-our-mental-maps.pdf]

5

Foreword

Why this book, why now?

We are living through a historical moment in which the old world is visibly losing its viability while another struggles to appear. The signs are everywhere. Our systems are exhausted. Our institutions are increasingly unable to respond with dignity, imagination, and coherence to the scale of the crises we face.

..But this one must happen faster. We know that the decisions we take NOW will allow us to continue an organized human Life on this planet. Or they won’t.

humanity needs a leap.. to get back/to simultaneous spontaneity .. simultaneous fittingness.. everyone in sync.. the dance.. for (blank)’s sake

And yet, even in the face of this evidence, what are we doing?

*We keep proposing solutions that mostly address symptoms while leaving the roots untouched: our worldviews, our values, our mental maps. We multiply innovations. We optimize. We digitize. We accelerate. We add more technique, more management, more tools, more performance indicators, more “solutions.” But the crucial question remains largely untouched: what if the real problem is not only the absence of solutions, but the mental maps from which we keep producing them? What if the paradigm itself is the foe? What if we are trying to shape the Future using ways of seeing that are blind to the very Futures we need?

*again.. nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem

**or even thinking we can (or need to) see it.. rather than ie: dance it.. et al

This is why this book star ts where many approaches do not. Not with methods. Not with quick fixes. Not with one more strategic recipe for acting inside the same obsolete frame. But with perception. With the stories, assumptions, worldviews, values, and invisible architectures that shape what we think is realistic, possible, desirable, serious, or impossible…Because the “real” world we have built outside is the result of our thinking.

again.. black science of people/whales law et al

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How? By working at the root level of Transformation: our Mental Maps

yes to root for sure.. but so too.. legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. in sync.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

Transformation begins there. At the root. In the invisible. In the microcosm between our ears.

to me.. rather.. what’s already on each heart.. mental not deep enough for the dance

7

As Einstein famously said, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking. We cannot change it without changing our thinking.”

need something legit diff.. something we’ve not yet tried.. ie: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

The visible world outside is created and maintained by often unconscious maps: perceptions, paradigms, meaning-making stories, mental models, values, and lenses through which we interpret Life.

cancerous distractions since forever.. need a global detox leap to get/back to us

This is not a secondary matter. It is the matter. Trying to navigate new landscapes with old maps leads to the repetition of the Same Old Solutions within the Same Obsolete Paradigm. It leads us to improve what should perhaps no longer be done at all.

exactly.. and as long as any form of m\a\p.. perpetuating same song

Shapership is the Power and Freedom to change our Mental Maps.

again.. not as long as any form of m\a\p..

Shapership has always had a manifesto dimension, though not in the sense of slogans detached from practice. Its radicality is not theatrical. It is rooted. It is tied to what we call the Soul Compass: that inner place where our deepest aspirations, values, refusals, hopes, and desires meet. Radicality here, does not mean extremism. It means going to the roots. It means reconnecting with the source from which transformative action can arise. *It means recovering the courage to say a Big NO to what diminishes Life and a Big YES to what deserves to be born.

yes to all that.. but if still spending time on saying no and defining what deserves to be ness.. not legit free.. not sans any form of m\a\p

10

If we want true transformation, we need to work at the root level of transformation: mental maps. At the level from which a person, a team, an organization, or a community decides what is realistic, desirable, serious, impossible, naïve, worth pursuing, or not worth attempting

to me.. those are cancerous distractions to the dance.. to me the root level is itch-in-the-soul

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness.. which is opp of ie: team/org/community/deciding/realistic/serious/impossible/worth ness..

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Above all, Shapership is a way to be and to “look” at the world, being completely aware that “the eye only sees what the brain is ready to understand” It means facing Reality in fresh, creative, Visionary, and sometimes revolutionary ways,

to me.. that means we need to see with our heart.. not understand so we can see.. graeber can’t know law et al

• with a clear acknowledgment of what is

graeber can’t know law et al

• and a Transformative Vision of what could be,

graeber can’t know law et al

• supported by aligned and coherent transformative action.

graeber can’t know law et al.. carhart-harris entropy law et al..

to me.. nothing to date has gotten to root of problem

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition

otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..

This is what gives Shapership both its radicality and its practicality. Its radicality, because it goes to the roots. Its practicality, because it does not stay in abstraction: it seeks to make transitions visible and actionable, to turn Vision into orientation, orientation into movement, and movement into lived transformation.

oh my.. yeah.. to me this is just perpetuating same song

not getting to the root of problem

skim ish

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Since the eye only sees what the brain is ready to understand, we are called to open our eyes and minds to develop new types of Vision. Especially those eyes able to see that this world, already upside down in so many ways, may need to be turned upside down again.

only way to ‘turn upside down’ is to again.. listen – a simple message