Is the subject of systems change(s), as a whole, distinct from a reduction into (i) systems and (ii) changes? For practice, theory and methods to be authentically rigourous, the philosophy underlying an approach to systems changes can be explicated. An appreciative systems framework surfaces presumptions of (i) what are and are not systems changes; (ii) when, where, and for whom, systems changes are prioritized for attention; and (iii) how systems changes should be addressed. Philosophies of (i) architectural design; (ii) ecological anthropology, and (iii) Classical Chinese Medicine are explored through multiparadigm inquiry, and open theorizing. The resulting influence of these three philosophies is considered, leading to a philosophy of systems rhythms more explicitly proposed as a foundation on which to approach systems changes.

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Kenneth Stanley: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective Kenneth O. Stanley, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida In artificial intelligence and elsewhere, it has long been assumed that the best way to achieve an ambitious outcome is to set it as an explicit objective and then to measure progress on the road to its achievement. Upending this conventional wisdom, a series of unusual experiments in machine learning has shown that, for a broad class of outcomes, the very act of setting objectives can block their achievement. More fundamentally, the same so-called “objective paradox” applies not only in computer algorithms but across many human endeavors: Often, to achieve our highest aspirations, we must be willing to abandon them. As a corollary, collaboration can sometimes thwart innovation by tacitly forcing its participants into an objective-driven mindset. The moral is both sobering and liberating: We can potentially achieve more by following a non-objective yet still principled path, after throwing off the shackles of objectives, metrics, and mandated outcomes.

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Our global civilization faces multiple systemic threats.The inevitable deeply disruptive transition will lead…EITHER to untold pain and suffering – via chaosOR (maybe) to a New Era – via conscious evolution.On this site, we curate the content of some of the people and organizations who are consciously working directly or indirectly on Humanity’s Transition.Watch the video to learn more, and please Support Us if you can.Explore.   Learn.   Inform your decisions.

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As the world faces a growing number of existential challenges, our governments and institutions are failing us precisely at the moment we need them most. What if we could come together to work on identifying and developing public, common-good solutions to the world’s most urgent wicked problems?It’s time to re-design society by tackling the Wicked 7. What might that look like?

What is The Wicked 7? – The Wicked 7

The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems by Christian Sarkar

The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems by Christian Sarkar – Global Peter Drucker Forum BLOG

STiP Jubilee Seminar: Second-order perspectives on learning and practice under complex conditions

Second-order perspectives on learning and practice under complex conditions is presented by Dr Andrew Mitchelle of De Montfort University.

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Providing sound theoretical roots to sustainability science: systems science and (second-order) cyberneticsLucio Biggiero

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CybCon22: Advantages of a Model-Centric Cybernetics ParadigmThis is the most recent presentation, which was given at the May 2022 Cybernetics Society Cybernetics Conversation Conference.First it demonstrates how the new paradigm can be derived from the first principles of cybernetics and how it naturally extends beyond second-order reflexivity to create a third-order regulator, which is a new class of regulator that is also known as an Ethical Regulator.Then an intervention is proposed where the definitions of cybernetics are redefined to clearly distinguish between the Science of Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Cybernetics. In this paradigm, third-order cybernetics equates to Ethical Cybernetics, which can be regarded itself as being a third-order ethical regulator of all the other ethically agnostic, dual-use, second-order sciences and social systems.

CybCon22: Advantages of a Model-Centric Cybernetics Paradigm

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Uniting Mind, Matter and LifeDONATE NOWIssue 333Jul/Aug 2022What’s in a WordConnected LifeUniting Mind, Matter and Lifeby Alfredo Erlwein-VicuñaCover: Artwork by Carole Hénaff www.carolehenaff.comBuy IssueReprint permissionsAlfredo Erlwein-Vicuña considers the theory of autopoiesis 50 years on.

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CSS Seminar: Religion & Public Mental Health Collaboration: Map & Quantify with Systems Science?Wed, Jul 6, 2022 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM BST

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Gerald Midgely says:

Glen Milstein (City University of New York, USA) is visiting our Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He is giving a seminar on PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIONS WITH FAITH GROUPS TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY CONNECTION. It will start at 1pm (UK time), Wednesday 6 July 2022.

It’s a hybrid event, and you can join online. Please sign up at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/regi…/6672144844397815565

Here is Glen’s summary of what the seminar is about:

Rates of mental illness and suicide have been on the rise, and this looks like it will continue. One consensus that has emerged in public mental health is that clinical interventions are necessary, but they are insufficient. From a prevention perspective, there is a need to better promote wellbeing through an improved knowledge of how to create and sustain people’s feelings of belonging and connectedness. A sense of community connection can help to promote reintegration and sustain recovery after treatment. How do we target community connection?

Since 1992, we have been researching programs of Community Outreach & Professional Engagement (COPE) to improve public mental health through collaborations between clinical service providers and religious communities/infrastructures. Since 2006 (when the ‘American Journal of Public Health’ published a special issue on systems thinking), we have worked to map this de facto and collaborative system of care.

The model for this work, with a psychological foundation in lifespan development, has changed over time from a Prevention Science U-S-I-R taxonomy to its current Dynamic Complexity map of stocks and flows relating to categories of wellbeing, support and care. Currently, we are engaged with community clergy from a veteran-serving clinic in Alabama, and a comprehensive community mental health program in Pennsylvania. We have also worked with the US Military, and on college campuses to promote collaboration between chaplains and mental health counsellors.

We look forward to seeing you at the seminar.

The theory that is today the Model of Hierarchical Complexity was first pres­ented by Michael Lamport Commons and Francis Asbury Richards in the early 1980s. It builds directly upon the Piagetian model and the work of Kohlberg and can be consider­ed as neo-Piagetian (although some call it “post-Piagetian”), bec­ause it large­ly suppo­ses that the Piagetian model (with cogni­tive stages) is corr­ect, but that there are sev­eral stages above what a normal human adult achieves, high­er stages that only a minority of the adult popula­tion reach. According to the neo-Piagetians the study of these stages can ex­plain a lot about humanity and society.

What Is The Model of Hierarchical Complexity? – Metamoderna

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The Viable System Model and Metaphorum as tools for change

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