MAY 9, 2022, 7:38 A.M.On knowing and understanding

Gaining Systemic Insight

I have read a very interesting article recently on a concept called Tamkeen that is practised in Marokko. The article is called Beyond the magic – growing our understanding of societal metamorphosis and was written by Karima Kadaoui (Tamkeen Community Foundation for Human Development) and Louis Klein (European School of Governance – EUSG).

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Symbiosis: Beyond Sustainability Expo

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Symbiosis: Beyond Sustainability Expo

Event by Global Regeneration CoLab

May 14, 2022, 11:00 AM – May 15, 2022, 1:00 AM

Online

Event linkhttps://opencollective.com/grc-activation-team/events/symbiosis-beyond-sustainability-ecb12ecd/order/39984

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Symbiosis: Beyond Sustainability Expo : A showcase of the abundance and diversity of impact stories and projects in regeneration. Join to expand horizons on what regeneration looks like in practice, and build new connections and relationships of support with regenerators worldwide.

Join us on May 14th, 2022 for a full day of interactive sessions and one-on-one interaction with project leads working in different fields of regeneration in agriculture, ecosystem service restoration, finance, capacity building, art, science and many more. Choose your own adventure from following a track to hopping into random conversations, we’ll be there to help you through it!

More Presenters to be unveiled as we get closer to the D-day!

SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION: Multi-Agency, Stakeholder-Engaged System Change

SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION: Multi-Agency, Stakeholder-Engaged System Change | lnu.se

Gerald Midgley says:

This is the second of two online seminars I am giving at Linnaeus University in Sweden next week. You’re welcome to sign up for it.

SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION: MULTI-AGENCY, STAKEHOLDER-ENGAGED SYSTEM CHANGE

1-3pm Swedish time (12-2pm UK time), Thursday 12 May 2022.

https://lnu.se/…/seminarium-systems-thinkings-20220512/

In this seminar, Gerald Midgley will discuss the systemic intervention methodology that he has been developing for over thirty years. This is useful for tackling really difficult organizational, social and environmental problems – especially when we need to get multiple organizations pulling together on system change. It is also helpful when we want to put the voices of communities, stakeholders or service users at the centre of planning, policy-making, evaluation or organizational design. Gerald will focus on key aspects of his systemic intervention methodology, such as the need for critical reflection on ethical and boundary judgements, and the value of mixing methods from a wide variety of sources to ensure that intervention is flexible and responsive to stakeholders’ concerns. The methodology will then be illustrated with a detailed case study of an intervention conducted in Central Manchester (UK), in which children and a variety of agencies developed new ideas to support young people missing from home or care. Gerald will describe how systemic intervention seeks out and amplifies the voices of marginalized stakeholders (in this case, homeless children). He will also explain the value of mixing a variety of methods to promote co-operation and mutual learning in a situation where getting a commitment to change from all the agencies was highly problematic. While the case study in this talk is about the design of new services for homeless children, this is purely illustrative: the methodology has been used to tackle a wide range of social and ecological issues involving people in the public, private, voluntary and community sectors. Some of projects tackling these issues have involved the resolution of decades-long stakeholder conflicts. In the question and answer session at the end of the talk, Gerald will draw upon some of these other project examples, as and when they are relevant.

Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? Kindle Editionby Ugo Bardi (Author), Carlos Alvarez Pereira (Editor)

Amazon.com: Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? eBook : Bardi, Ugo, Alvarez Pereira, Carlos: Books

In 1972, a book changed the world.

The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?

In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the researchers developed scenarios to map out possible paths for humanity, the global economy and the impact on the planet.

Were their models right?

What did the rest of the world do about it?

Now, in 2022, the Club of Rome have brought two of the original authors from the 1972 book, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers, along with an array of other world-renowned thinkers, scientists, analysts and economists from across the globe to answer these questions and grapple with the most acute issue of our time.

In the first section, “Echoes of a Great Book”, Ugo Bardi sets the scene with an in-depth examination of the original report and the effect it has had on how we might think about what humanity is doing to the world.

Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows then ask what the first book actually said and answer the most common questions that people ask about the book and progress since. Further explorations of the impact and consequences of the ground-breaking original book follow.

Next, in the “Still the Economy, But What Kind?” section, the contributors examine the economic ideas that have informed and arisen from The Limits to Growth in the following decades and critique those assumptions and notions. They ask what must change if we are to stay within the limits set by nature.

In the “New Lenses for a Different Future” section, thinkers from continents and cultures across the globe expand on their unique experiences of acting in and observing a world that may use all its resources before we wake up and act.

The “Did We Learn? Will We?” section ponders where we go from here. Has humanity taken in the lessons of The Limits to Growth? What have we learned in the meantime? And, most importantly, what can we do about it now?

Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? reaches back half a century to when the original report shook the world into realising that we live on a finite planet, brings it sharply up to date, and looks clear-eyed into the future.

Limits and Beyond focuses the mind on the pressing issues of sustainability, global economics, and ecology that global politics and institutions need to grapple with to ensure the survival of the human race.

Limits and Beyond is the book that will shape the conversation about our place on the earth for the next 50 years and beyond.

Can we save the planet and the human race? Buy Limits and Beyond to find out.

I’m excited to be facilitating a systems thinking session at this event

Carbon Capture Deep Dive:A Systems Change Perspective

May 28, 2022

ONLINE CONFERENCE

Carbon Capture Deep Dive – Systems Change Alliance

Join Brian Von Herzen (Climate Foundation), Paul Streifeneder (Pleistocene and Permafrost Foundation), Kim Bye Bruun (Northern Lights), Benjamin Taylor and Laura Griffiths (Red Quadrant) and others discussing one of humanity’s most pressing concerns: can we create a systemic approach to climate change mitigation through carbon capture? Panelists will look at diverse forms of carbon capture, from marine permaculture and forest regeneration to cutting-edge technologies and fast-paced carbon markets.

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• Voluntary Carbon Markets
• Blue and Teal Carbon
• Permafrost Biodiversity Conservation
• Carbon Capture and Storage
• Marine Permaculture
• Regenerative Farming
• Systems Thinking
• And more

From ‘Me’ to ‘We’ — Lessons on leading as a systems activistTackling complex social problems requires you to act beyond the boundaries of your organisation to change the systems in which these problems are embedded. In this blog we share what we’ve learned about this difficult work and the behaviours and mindsets it requires.

From ‘Me’ to ‘We’ — Lessons on leading as a systems activist | by Collaborate CIC | May, 2022 | Collaborate

Exploring how systems change practitioners use communications in their workLuminary Inquiry•May 4, 2022

Exploring how systems change practitioners use communications in their work

Intention or Attention? Humbling Design through ‘Systems Changes Learning’

Intention or Attention? Humbling Design through ‘Systems Changes Learning’ Registration, Mon, May 9, 2022 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

If Systems Changes Learning offers a way of rethinking systems thinking, might it also offer a path towards rethinking designing?

About this event

Systems Changes Learning (SCL) is a body of work that offers an updated way of thinking about and responding to change. The three premises of SCL dramatically reposition how we look and understand changes: as rhythms over time that might shift, in accord with the natures of the systems involved.

What could we learn from mapping the SCL premises to designing? This presentation will explore the potential influence that Systems Changes Learning could have on designing and designers, in philosophies, in methods, and in practices.

As a core member of the SCL Circle, Zaid will extend the framing of “humility” – from his Major Research Project “Responding to Complexity with Humility” (2020) – as a lens through which to examine and explore new modes of designing.

Please see: https://wiki.st-on.org/2022-05-09 for for a fuller description and pre-readings.

Open-minded novices and learners are always welcomed. We’ll try to keep the conversations understandable by the layman, and entertain questions for clarification.

To be notified of future sessions, please join the Google Group: http://bit.ly/st-on

Urbanized knowledge syndrome—erosion of diversity and systems thinking in urbanites’ mental modelsPayam Aminpour, Steven A. Gray, Michael W. Beck, Kelsi L. Furman, Ismini Tsakiri, Rachel K. Gittman, Jonathan H. Grabowski, Jennifer Helgeson, Lauren Josephs, Matthias Ruth & Steven B. Scyphers npj Urban Sustainability volume 2, Article number: 11 (2022) Cite this article43 AltmetricMetricsdetailsAbstractCoastal ecosystems nearby human societies collectively shape complex social-ecological systems (SESs). These ecosystems support high levels of ecological biodiversity while providing resources and services to humans. However, shoreline armoring, land transformation, and urban homogenization across urbanized coastal areas may degrade natural ecosystems and alter how humans and nature are connected. We hypothesize that these alterations extend to residents’ knowledge of SESs. We explore evidence of such cognitive outcomes in graphical mental models of more than 1350 coastal residents across eight states in the Northeast United States. Our results revealed that, in more urbanized areas, residents’ mental models underrepresented complex interdependence between humans and natural components, indicating limited systems thinking. Additionally, urbanization and shoreline armoring were associated with homogenization of mental models. We refer to these results as Urbanized Knowledge Syndrome (UKS). Importantly, respondents with more symptoms of UKS were less likely to self-report adoption of pro-environmental behaviors. These results indicate a potential societal-level erosion of ecological knowledge associated with urbanization in the same way more urbanized areas are associated with diminishing ecological function. Thus, diagnosing and treating UKS is an essential component of urban sustainability.

Urbanized knowledge syndrome—erosion of diversity and systems thinking in urbanites’ mental models | npj Urban Sustainability

Beyond the Bounds of your Organization: Systems Influencing & Why it Matters! 10 May 2022 | 15:00 – 16:00 CEST Virtual Problem solving session/thematic workshopTo use a systems led approach to drive your organisation’s strategy and approach to the HOW of what you do include wide listening, non-inear approach, multi-perspective teams with lived experiences, sharing beyond the bounds of your organisation and connections. Since poverty is a multidimensional problem, Dara Institute developed an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to promote health for the entire family. Learn about a comprehensive systems approach to addressing poverty in Brazil using the family action plans that involve the family with health education and improvement, family education, citizenship and engagement, housing improvements and family income. During the session, you will be asked to reflect on how your organisation is systems led and what is missing or needs to be changed to make your organisation be led by systems.

Beyond the Bounds of your Organization: Systems Influencing & Why it Matters! – Catalysing Change Week

Catalysing Change Week | 9-13 May 2022#LetsReenergisetheSDGsRegister for CCW2022

Events – Catalysing Change Week

From Saskia Rysenbry, School of Systems Change Curator at Forum for the Future in the new LinkedIn group for existing… nodes on the map:

https://systems-change-practitioners.openmappr.org/

Welcome new members of this group!

Last year, the Illuminate Network set out to help visualise the field of systems change practitioners by using affinity mapping to create relationships through systems change terms and language. You are here because you are on this map: https://lnkd.in/e_Xt7DiV (you were either nominated, or nominated yourself!) and this year, we are excited to be growing this map and holding several sense-making sessions on how this map can be a useful tool in the field. 

We’ve created a LinkedIn group for everyone that is on the map to receive updates and/or give feedback.

If you’d like to add anyone to the map, remove yourself, or suggest terms that are not showing up, you can do so with this link: https://lnkd.in/eSsC6SQQ

Lastly, we are hosting a discussion at Catalysing Change week in May, 12 May 2022 | 19:30 – 20:30 CEST to open up a dialogue on how it might be used as an inquiry tool and what certain snapshots can say about the field. If you’d like to attend, please register here: https://lnkd.in/eAZJnYVe

https://systems-change-practitioners.openmappr.org/

“POSITIVE” SYSTEMS ARCHETYPESBY MARILYN HERASYMOWYCH, HENRY SENKO

The Systems Thinker – “Positive” Systems Archetypes – The Systems Thinker