Transcendence: Annual Conference on OD, Change and Leadership

Transcendence is a platform to explore emerging paradigms of OD, Change and Leadership through showcasing transformative efforts accomplished by organisations and communities. Our primary purpose is to promote and develop OD as a scientific discipline that makes a tangible difference to organisations and the world.

Transcendence has been successfully organised in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The next Transcendence will be held during February 3, 2024.

In Transcendence 2024, the focus will be on Unpacking Sustainability-Oriented Behaviours, in an Unconference mode where practitioners from different industries and backgrounds will join us. The output is the ‘content’ of sustainability practice. At Transcendence 2024, CSOL (Centre for Social and Organisational Leadership)’s annual connect with institutions beyond TISS, we aim to get beneath the practice layers to uncover, from practitioner experience, HOW these outcomes reflect on:

• Attitudes, emotions, and values experienced by practitioners.
• Structures, processes, and roles shaped by and with practitioners.
• Patterns in human behaviour at the following levels

• Community, or collectives of social identity groups, sought to be impacted by practitioners.
• Groups within a community engaged in sustainability-oriented work
• Individuals within groups in civil society or those engaged in sustainability-orientedwork.

In other words, our emphasis in this experience-sharing occasion would be on the ‘process’ that produced the outcomes. Thus, we aim to transcend the boundaries of knowledge in organisational behaviour and development to engage with emerging priorities of humankind where preceding knowledge is no panacea for enabling human conduct when faced with potentially terminal dimensions of survival amid possibilities of extinction. Neglecting behaviour science in sustainability may otherwise become an unconscious default, with methods of intervention stopping ineffectively at the boundary of organisat