antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:17 am on February 28, 2022

UKSS Online workshop – Christine Welch March 16 at 4pm UK – Soft Systems Methodology – what it is and is not (and trailer for the UKSS conference!)

Online workshop with Dr Christine Welch – 16th March at 4.00 pm
Soft Systems Methodology – what it is and is not
UKSS Online workshop – March 16th

See our Online workshop event flyer for details of future events!

Next conferenceUKSS Conference 2022 – will be 20th/21st June at Lancaster University.

The theme is ‘Systems thinking and the energy transition’Please download the advance flyer:

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 1:58 am on February 28, 2022

Australia National University – School of Cybernetics February Newsletter

contains e.g.
We know ‘the system’ has long failed Aboriginal people – so why not cyberpunk it?
Communities are systems: What can systems thinking teach us when it comes to communities?
School of Cybernetics February Newsletter

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:47 pm on February 27, 2022

Understanding Complexity & Organisations – Mark Eddleston

Understanding Complexity & OrganisationsMark Eddleston
Understanding Complexity & Organisations

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:35 pm on February 27, 2022

Designing self-organising enterprises and viable systems / Patrick Hoverstadt | Intersection16 – YouTube

Designing self-organising enterprises and viable systems / Patrick Hoverstadt / Intersection16
Designing self-organising enterprises and viable systems / Patrick Hoverstadt / Intersection16 – YouTube

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:20 pm on February 27, 2022

Women in Systems Thinking – Speaker Series | System of Systems Thinkers – Systems Thinking Marin

A Discussion SeriesThis series of events celebrates and acknowledges the important contribution of women in systems thinking. It is formulated in the spirit of facilitating a greater level of coordination among systems thinkers, as well as recognizing the crucial contributions of those whose work is more about “being” and “doing” as of equal value to “thinking.”
System of Systems Thinkers – Systems Thinking Marin

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:59 pm on February 27, 2022

Resisting or embracing meta-rationality | David Chapman

Resisting or embracing meta-rationality
Resisting or embracing meta-rationality | Meta-rationality

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:39 pm on February 24, 2022

How do you change the system three steps at a time? | by noelito | Feb, 2022 | Medium

https://noelito.medium.com/how-do-you-change-the-system-three-steps-at-a-time-60a5f62fe5f1

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:20 pm on February 24, 2022

Governance & System Convening webinar – Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 2pm GMT

Governance & System Convening
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Free

About this event

We are excited to convene an initial conversation on systems convening and governance.

The conversation is an outgrowth of the launch of Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner book on Systems Convening, when a number of us expressed interest in exploring the practice of systems convening in the governance space.

Date and time

Fri, March 4, 2022

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM GMT

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:11 pm on February 23, 2022

Five worlds practices for systems transformation with Benjamin P Taylor – YouTube and links – sensemaking.rs

Five worlds practices for systems transformation with Benjamin P Taylor
Five worlds practices for systems transformation with Benjamin P Taylor – YouTube

Slides and other materials via the Meetup:

https://www.meetup.com/sensemaking-rs/events/283626716

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 12:19 pm on February 23, 2022

Learning As You Scale – Social Innovation | Launch Registration Feb 28, 2022 12:00 PM in Dublin

book:
Webinar Registration – Zoom

Learning As You Scale Launch Registration

Topic

Learning as You Scale Launch

One of the most important and challenging aspects of social innovation is scaling. Often innovations which have the potential to transform the lives of people across countries remain confined to small demonstration sites and pilots.

We are inviting you to the launch of Learning as You Scale: A Practical Guide to Navigate Scaling and Complex Systems Change written by a team of European experts. The guide explores how the power of the voices of those involved on the frontline of social challenges can best be harnessed to inform and accelerate change. Valuable guidance for practitioners is included which is rooted in practice, moves beyond simplistic, linear evaluation approaches and addresses the real challenges involved in scaling social innovation, especially within complex systems.

Feb 28, 2022 12:00 PM in Dublin

LinkedIn post:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6902292012968865792-rNp3

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 11:47 am on February 23, 2022

Webinar | Thinking Like a System and Leading with Humility – Margaret Wheatley and Mayor Lisa Helps of Victoria, BC, 1pm EST March 2, 2022

Thinking Like a System and Leading with HumilityDate: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. (ET)Speakers: Margaret Wheatley and Mayor Lisa Helps
Webinar | Thinking Like a System and Leading with Humility

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 12:31 pm on February 22, 2022

CONFERENCE WORKBOOK for “TEXTS IN CYBERNETIC THEORY” An In-Depth Exploration of the Thought of HUMBERTO R. MATURANA WILLIAM T. POWERS ERNST VON GLASERSFELD A Conference of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS October 18-23, 1988 Felton, California

https://asc-cybernetics.org/publications/Texts_in_Cybernetic_Theory.pdf

pdf dug up by @Kihbernetics who says:

Found this really interesting document from 1988 with texts from #Powers, #Maturana, and #Glasersfeld, but it is missing two pages (30 and 31) in the “outline of control theory” from Powers. If someone has the full text it would be very much appreciated. https://asc-cybernetics.org/publications/Texts_in_Cybernetic_Theory.pdf

Found this really interesting document from 1988 with texts from #Powers, #Maturana, and #Glasersfeld, but it is missing two pages (30 and 31) in the "outline of control theory" from Powers. If someone has the full text it would be very much appreciated.https://t.co/ITo4eLzrVO
— The Kihbernetics Institute (@Kihbernetics) February 22, 2022

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:49 am on February 22, 2022

Systems convening across boundaries – hosted by Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner, Wed 2 Mar 2022 at 16:00 UK time – Collective Leadership Scotland

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Hosted by Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner

About this event

Hosting new types of conversations across complex landscapes requires a certain kind of leadership, which is described as systems convening. A systems convener or systems convening team sets up spaces for new types of conversations between people who often live on different sides of a boundary. For example, a geographic, cultural, disciplinary, political, class, social boundary. They spot opportunities for creating new learning spaces and partnership that will bring different and often unlikely people together, and use their legitimacy to convene people to engage in learning across boundaries.

You may be doing this kind of work without any label, unrecognized, or are not not aware that they are doing it, or perhaps you are interested in learning more…

Join Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner in conversation with Janet Whitley and Joan O’Donnell about their recent book on systems convening, where they interviewed 40 systems conveners from around the world, working on diverse issues ranging from improving government transparency to enhancing cancer care.

You can download the book for free here: https://wenger-trayner.com/systems-convening/

About Illuminating Leadership Festival

This event is part of Illuminating Leadership 2022 – a global festival exploring the light and shade of collective leadership. To learn more about this festival and see all other events, have a look here.

Share your event experience using #IlluminatingLeadership and follow Collective Leadership for Scotland @CollectiveScot on Twitter.

Other Event Information

Please note that this event is participatory and has engagement at its heart. Therefore, access to a micro-phone and video-camera is a requirement to participate and get most out of this session.

Our ambition is to host events that are engaging, open and accessible to all. If there is something we can do to enhance your online event experience, please do let us know in advance by contacting collectiveleadership@gov.scot.

Date and time

Wed, 2 March 2022

16:00 – 16:55 GMT

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antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 2:45 am on February 22, 2022

Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization – Frenette and Fribance (2020)

Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization
Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization – OCAD University Open Research Repository

Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization

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Frenette, Chantal and Fribance, Robin (2020) Enabling Foresightfulness: A Framework for Building a Futures-Oriented Organization. [MRP]

Item Type:	MRP
Creators:	Frenette, Chantal and Fribance, Robin
Abstract:	The practice of organizational foresight is known to have significant benefits when utilized as an input into strategic decision-making and strategic planning. There are, however, recognized limitations with organizations’ abilities to integrate and enact insights derived from foresight. This report aims to understand those limitations by seeking to uncover the barriers and enabling conditions associated with integrating foresight within organizations. The research for this report is grounded in human-centred design and follows a problem finding, problem framing, and solutioning process, and is supported by a social constructivist point of view, which emphasizes knowledge building and knowledge transfer through collaboration and active engagement. In addition to background research, industry interviews with expert foresight practitioners, and a survey of organizational strategists were used to determine the barriers and enabling conditions associated with organizational foresight. Key findings include three principles for successful integration of foresight within organizations. Those three principles are: first, the prioritization of the collective over the individual and the recognition that having individual capacity does not translate into having collective capacity; second, foresight is viewed as an organizational activity, meaning that futures-thinking and foresight practicing brings strategic foresight to life in an organization and makes integration achievable; and third, that the organization sees itself as a system, and in that system all the elements and their interrelationships are used to sustain the thinking and the practice of foresight. Stemming from the three principles, this report concludes by making recommendations for both foresight practitioners and organizations that engage with foresight. The report identifies opportunities for further research related to the recommendations.
Date:	2020

http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3159/1/Frenette_Fribance_2020_MDes_SFI_MRP.pdf

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 2:43 am on February 22, 2022

Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations | Hayward (2004) – and other Peter Hayward links

Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations
Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations | Semantic Scholar

Facilitating foresight: where the foresight function is placed in organisations

P. Hayward
Published 1 February 2004
Business
Foresight

This paper introduces the Viable Systems Model and in particular the Meta System component of that model, as a framework within which to consider how foresight can be facilitated in organisations. Shows how the System 4 function within the meta system is in a position to facilitate processes that will produce effectiveness and the development of overall system identity. Also shows how adopting another framework for understanding the paradigms or worldviews that operate in organisations can enhance the likelihood that these processes will be successful.

also via https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235291881_Facilitating_foresight_Where_the_foresight_function_is_placed_in_organisations

FuturePod EP 2: Deep Inquiry and Dealing with Complexity – Peter Hayward

https://www.futurepod.org/podcast/2018/10/22/episode-10-peter-hayward