Abstract
What if the root of our global polycrisis is not a failure of policy, but a failure of perception? This book argues that contemporary scholarship, for all its specialization, is ill-equipped to address interconnected crises precisely because it lacks a methodology for analyzing the most powerful force shaping our world: the health of our collective stories. We contend that the core driver of systemic decay is a measurable dissonance between a society's foundational narratives and its actions-a gap this work provides the first tools to diagnose and heal.
This text introduces the Stone-Singer's Model, a robust framework that moves beyond the symptomatic treatment of crises. We offer a transdisciplinary synthesis that operationalizes narrative as a diagnostic indicator (Narrative Epidemiology), proposes a necessary philosophical shift in our relationship with the biosphere (Symbiotic Health), and details a practical, scalable structure for resilient organizations (the A-R Hybrid). By placing this model in direct, critical dialogue with existing paradigms like Theory U and Doughnut Economics, and by providing a practical toolkit for its application, this work aims to do more than introduce a new theory. It seeks to establish a new and urgently needed field: the applied science of symbiotic systems.