"Is vs Ought will be a culmination of Deborah Rowland's thinking, research, in-field experience and writing over the past three decades in the field of change. Yet, updated for today's world of increasing polarisation, populism, rapidly advancing technology revolution and global world order/biodiversity collapse. Its central tenet is as follows: change starts with acknowledging what is -- courageously and respectfully agreeing to the truth of experience; yet we tend to initiate change with the ought -- our judgment as to how things need to be, based on our own moral code, assumptions, wishes, neuroses, and world view. Is seeks descriptive fact. Ought assigns prescriptive value. If change starts with acknowledging the is-ness of experience, a plea for the inclusion of ever-widening and at-times competing contexts however awkward such truth-confronting might be, what does living from an is-world mean and what will it take to move towards a less stuck, ought-fixated world"-- Provided by publisher.