“Conversion therapies” such as Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) are pseudoscientific practices of trying to change an individual’s behaviour to conform to the social expectations …| Autistic Collaboration
The logo of this website symbolises trusted collaboration at eye level, without social power gradients. Autistic people know intuitively that this is the only route to creating good company. Relati…| Autistic Collaboration
You may have read articles like this one that point to different ways of recording COVID-19 mortality in different jurisdictions. The concerns raised about variability in data collection are mirror…| Autistic Collaboration
Cultural evolution and creative niche constructionCulture shapes what people attend to, perceive, remember, and how they think, feel, and reasonThe revolution will not be nudgedEvolution and the hu…| Autistic Collaboration
Illustration from Aarambh India Building blocks of cultural organismsPhysical presence and activityRelational presence and activityInternal presence and creativityDialogueRoutinesOpen SpaceAutistic…| Autistic Collaboration
The diagnostic criteria for autism cover a broad and diverse umbrella of people, and they obscure the Autistic lived experience of toxic cultural norms that are ultimately detrimental for all peopl…| Autistic Collaboration
W.E.I.R.D. stands for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. As long as society confuses homo economicus with homo sapiens we are more than “a bit off course”. The exp…| Autistic Collaboration
If neurodiversity is the natural variation of cognition, motivations, and patterns of behaviour within the human species, then what role do Autistic traits in particular play within human cultures …| Autistic Collaboration
Psychiatry is slowly catching up with the concept of neurodiversity amongst animals, including humans, taking clues from animal biology/psychology and from the neurodiversity movement. The language…| Autistic Collaboration
The definition of normality in the industrial era is based on the metaphor of society as a factory and on the metaphor of people as machines. Our laws and social norms have been shaped by these met…| Autistic Collaboration
S23M's presentation at the inaugural Cultural Evolution Society Conference, Jena, Germany, 13-15 September 2017.| s23m.com
Timeless patterns of human limitations Jorn Bettin, 2021, published by S23M.Lulu (paperback)Amazon (Kindle) Through the lenses of evolutionary biology and cultural evolution, small groups of 20 to …| Jorn Bettin
S23M's Creative Collaboration offering.| s23m.com
Big is Bad, Small is Beautiful, Less is More The preoccupation with growth and technology accelerated following WWII, fuelling the illusion of infinite growth on a finite planet. The rise and…| Jorn Bettin
Replacing monologues and monocultures with dialogues and biodiversity at all levels of scale Cultural inertiaAttempting to apply the scientific method in complex domains and transdisciplinary conte…| Jorn Bettin
The Overton window of industrialised society We live in a time of exponential changes in communication technology. Just a few decades ago humans only needed to learn one or two languages and perhap…| Jorn Bettin
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The many faces of busyness as usual From a European or American perspective the stereotype of the Japanese salaryman [1] is easily recognised as a product of a so…| Jorn Bettin
Evolutionary design allows organisations and people to participate in the evolution of a living system and to integrate their knowledge into a living system that includes humans, non-humans, and hu…| Jorn Bettin
All living systems, from the smallest forms of life to the planetary ecosystem are best understood as complex systems of feedback loops. Metaphors we live byInterdependence Holotropism Metaphors we…| Autistic Collaboration
This article reflects the foundation of Autistic collaboration between Jax Bayne, Jorn Bettin, Sam Davis, Star Ford, Svanhildur Kristjansson, and a growing human scale neurodivergent team. We are a…| Autistic Collaboration