Working with energy for connection  The next step on from traditional leadership, team cohesion, organisational dynamics / collaboration and culture-change courses. This course starts to move into the very practical ways to this seldom-explored and developed area of energy, vibration, connection and care. 

Course And Events – We Evolve, Energetics for Change

Lots of people in and around the systems | complexity | cybernetics field work with ‘energy’ – and lots of people are not comfortable with something which does not have a scientific explanation and smacks of ‘woo woo’. Yet this is valued work, and not just among the fringes- what do you think?

Esther Hall is a systems thinker who is (for example) offering an ‘energetics for change’ course:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqmwte2nvxz7bag/Working%20with%20Energy%20for%20Connection%20branded%20flyer%20Nov%2021%20v3.pdf?dl=0

source:

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

The empty brain

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

Robert Epstein

is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California. He is the author of 15 books, and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. 

Edited byPam Weintraub

source:

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Understanding Movements FREE This report and presentation deck explores: What are movements? What is their relevance in social change? What are some of their defining features? How do they differ from programs or collective impact?

Understanding Movements – NetworkWeaver

Schwarz viable system theory[edit]

Viable system theory – Wikipedia

The Frame Problem First published Mon Feb 23, 2004; substantive revision Mon Feb 8, 2016 To most AI researchers, the frame problem is the challenge of representing the effects of action in logic without having to represent explicitly a large number of intuitively obvious non-effects. But to many philosophers, the AI researchers’ frame problem is suggestive of wider epistemological issues. Is it possible, in principle, to limit the scope of the reasoning required to derive the consequences of an action? And, more generally, how do we account for our apparent ability to make decisions on the basis only of what is relevant to an ongoing situation without having explicitly to consider all that is not relevant?

The Frame Problem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected There’s a new gallery show and book of his whimsical line drawings — and coming this summer, an immersive art-and-science experience. David Byrne installing one of his tree drawings, called “Human Content,” at Pace Gallery in New York City. Credit…Mark Sommerfeld for The New York Times By Frank Rose Jan. 27, 2022

David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected – The New York Times

An example of the use of ‘systems thinking’ – and actually, I think, real systems thinking – in the wild.

Experts: Congress must treat poor nutrition, climate change, and biodiversity loss as interconnected | Successful Farming

EXPERTS: CONGRESS MUST TREAT POOR NUTRITION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS AS INTERCONNECTED

By Chuck Abbott1/27/2022

Addressing the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and diet-related disease will require coordinated action, systems thinking, and much more public funding, a panel of scientists, farmers, and advocates told Congress on Wednesday.

EXPERTS: CONGRESS MUST TREAT POOR NUTRITION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS AS INTERCONNECTED

Experts: Congress must treat poor nutrition, climate change, and biodiversity loss as interconnected | Successful Farming

Social Enterprise, Complexity and Systems Change 1 day free conference program released and registrations now open – Tuesday 15th March 2022 ONLINE https://mailchi.mp/0e20c8d86438/systemchangeevents2022-20149836…

Wicked Lab on Twitter: “Social Enterprise, Complexity and Systems Change 1 day free conference program released and registrations now open – Tuesday 15th March 2022 ONLINE https://t.co/UMf8qMsokO https://t.co/8rxNn3qTL1” / Twitter

https://mailchi.mp/0e20c8d86438/systemchangeevents2022-20149836

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hdclk08wytzp7hk/Program%20-Social%20Enterprise%20Complexity%20and%20Systems%20Change%20Day%20v3.pdf?dl=0

just started a collection of First Nations people sharing their ‘thinking in systems’ and thought others might be interested. https://bit.ly/34A9vRG happy to add other examples if you have to share!

(1) seanna davidson on Twitter: “just started a collection of First Nations people sharing their ‘thinking in systems’ and thought others might be interested. https://t.co/qHd7mgY10m happy to add other examples if you have to share!” / Twitter

Our systems approach, the power behind our sustainable solutions Chiara Rusconi 27/01/2021

Our systems approach, the power behind our sustainable solutions

Six Variations of the VSM

Six Variations of the VSM – Intelligente-Organisationen

The Dialogical, The Ecological and Beyond Authors Jon Goodbun Royal College of Art Ben Sweeting University of Brighton

The Dialogical, The Ecological and Beyond | FOOTPRINT

FEB 22 Systems diagramming: art or craft? by The Open University, Faculty of STEM

Systems diagramming: art or craft? Tickets, Tue 22 Feb 2022 at 12:00 | Eventbrite

Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics

[PDF] Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics | Semantic Scholar

Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics

• S. Umpleby
• Published 2018
• Political Science

Systems Science, cybernetics and complexity are closely related fields. To illustrate, this article describes two projects in contemporary cybernetics that may be of interest to those concerned with complexity and policy studies. The first project is an effort to expand the conception of science so that it more successfully encompasses the social sciences. The intent is to aid communication among disciplines and improve our ability to manage social systems. The second project is an effort to develop reflexivity theory into a general theory of purposeful, self-directed systems, thus improving our understanding and management of social systems. The article ends with some comparisons of complexity and cybernetics.