How adequate are our current governance structures for the complexity of the world we now face?

This expert session will explore a deeper question: whether some of the problems we repeatedly encounter in politics and civic governance are being reproduced by the very systems designed to address them — and what different forms of governance might require from people, practices, worldviews and institutions.

Bringing together four complementary perspectives:

• Dr Paddy Pampallis — inner development, leadership maturity and human capacity
• Olivia Stamp — emerging civic practices, deliberative democracy and collective intelligence
• Dr Violeta Bulc — governance structures, institutional architecture and systemic transformation
• Dr Marina Demchenko — facilitator, bringing the perspective of worldviews, culture, relational intelligence and pluriversal approaches

Together, we will ask:

Are we trying to solve new problems through old governance architectures?

What needs to evolve together — people, practices, worldviews and institutions — for genuinely different forms of governance to emerge?

What can we already learn from emerging experiments, and what should we test next?

This conversation is not about proposing another ready-made model, but about opening a deeper inquiry into the conditions for wiser, more participatory and more relational forms of governance — capable of responsibly stewarding living social ecosystems and contributing to planetary health.