Karen O'Brien - Fractal Approaches to Quantum Social Change

This video was shared as part of the Nova Campfire on "Overcoming the Great Divide: Quantum Social Change for Personal and Planetary Health” - hosted by the Nova Institute for Health in collaboration with the Garrison Institute. The event explored strategies to overcome political polarization and cultural fragmentation that threaten personal and planetary health, and how aligning values with actions can catalyze change across scales-from individuals to collective and systems change.
About the presenter:
Karen O’Brien is professor in the department of sociology and human geography at the University of Oslo, Norway and co-founder of cCHANGE, a company that supports transformation in a changing climate. With 30 years of research experience, she currently focuses on the relationship between climate change adaptation and transformations to sustainability. She is particularly interested in the role of beliefs, values, world views, and paradigms in generating conscious social change, including an exploration of the potential for “quantum social change.” She has participated in four reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and was named by Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade.