Coaches Rising 272 - Richard David Hames: Navigating Complexity, Collapse & Change
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Jan 23, 2026 Richard David Hames, thought leader and author on systems change and AI ethics, shares a non-linear life and wide-ranging projects. He explores failing sensemaking, collapse as opportunity for renewal, leadership as an emergent collective, the role of inner work and story in systemic change, reintegrating the feminine and indigenous wisdom, and practical perspectives on AI and future sentience.
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Expanded Now For Coaching
- Coaching must operate in an expanded present that holds past, present, and possible futures simultaneously.
- Richard David Hames says coaching within a crumbling paradigm is negligent and demands new sensemaking.
Worldviews Drive Systemic Change
- Worldviews sit beneath our visible world system and shape large-scale outcomes and crises.
- Richard David Hames highlights that Western and Eastern worldviews produce very different global dynamics.
Capitalism's Internal Contradiction
- Industrial economism (capitalism) has become extractionist and toxic to the planet.
- Richard David Hames argues this internal contradiction creates an existential crisis for the Western worldview.
