I’m part of the team delivering the excellent Level 7 Systems Thinking Apprenticeship for people working in England (apprenticeship levy funded) with Cherith Simmons. With the government review accelerating decisions, we’re starting new cohorts now—some spaces available. Let me know if you or your team are interested!

Notes:

For the apprenticeship, you need to be in a job in England (not even the UK, sadly) – more info here https://cherithsimmons.co.uk/apprenticeships/leadership-and-management/stp/
The programme is delivered over 24 months combining pre-recorded training material, highly interactive virtual workshops, progressive work-based assessments etc…

But all the inputs are also being made available through SCiO – Systems and Complexity in Organisation: https://www.systemspractice.org/courses

(I should clarify – ‘all the inputs’ means the core teaching inputs from SCiO people, which do add up to all the teaching inputs from the apprenticeship – and more. In the apprenticeship you get action learning – also available from SCiO https://www.systemspractice.org/active-learning-circles – and tripartite meetings with your employer, etc etc)

The core apprenticeship standard is here:
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/st0787-v1-1

Both the training and the apprenticeship standard are designed around the professional standard – which you can get on peer review of a practice portfolio for a very modest fee!
https://www.systemspractice.org/professional-accreditation

The INET Systems Thinking Seminar SeriesThe Oxford Systems Thinking Hub has been set up to promote and develop the use of Systems Thinking approaches across Oxford.

The INET Systems Thinking Seminar Series

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If you want to build really large software systems well, you have to stop thinking of them as just software systems. Beyond a certain size, everything your software touches becomes part of the wider system. You’re part of the system, your users are part of the system, and every other employee & department & priority eventually forms part of that system. And that can make it incredibly difficult to make changes, or even to understand which changes will actually matter. That might be overwhelming, but there’s hope. Understanding how systems work and how to improve them is something that can be learnt, and improved at. So in the pursuit of better systems understanding, I’m joined this week by Diana Montalion, coder, architect, and author of Learning Systems Thinking. She takes us through how she sees systems, and how we can get better at discovering and understanding our own systems, as we both chew through some difficult systems we’ve worked on in the hope of figuring out how to do it better next time…

link:

(276) Software Systems Aren’t Just Software (with Diana Montalion) – YouTube

This video is an excerpt from the 1992 American Society for Cybernetics Conference about the cybernetics of Herbert Brün and Humberto Maturana, organized by then president Rodney Donaldson.

link:

Humberto Maturana; The Biology of Love, Language and Languaging – YouTube

Dec 2024 | News & Notes

RSD13 in Oslo, online, and RSDX was a unique experience lasting over two weeks and presenting hundreds of presentations and over 1000 joining.

The onsite event at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design was a unique one-track event with no recording or streaming. Except the keynotes were recorded. Here we present the three keynotes.

RSD13 OSLO KEYNOTESDEC 2024 | NEWS & NOTESRSD13 in Oslo, online, and RSDX was a unique experience lasting over two weeks and presenting hundreds of presentations and over 1000 joining.The onsite event at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design was a unique one-track event with no recording or streaming. Except the keynotes were recorded. Here we present the three keynotes.

RSD13 Oslo Keynotes

Material drawn from the workbooks prepared for SCiO (Systems and Complexity in Organisation, the systems thinking practitioner professional body) for facilitation, workshop design, and large group facilitation sessions:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OdGHAOcehnAurCc00vcF_vnA4N8L4UUynDhbD5J1yPc/edit?tab=t.0

Posted in the systems thinking network group on LinkedIn by Gene Bellinger

After almost 50 years of creating models I sort of figured I had it pretty much sorted out… And? https://bra.in/7qaonE Then one day I was presenting one of my incomprehensible models when I stopped and asked myself “What does it mean?” I know what it said, though what did it mean was a very different question.

I can use any modeling software to develop a model of what I think I know or understand, though none of them are any help at all with what I don’t know I don’t know. Last fall I started investigating the extent to which AI might help me build better models and help me understand some of the ones I’ve already developed.

I found what evolved from this endeavor quite amazing. Not only is AI allowing me to develop better models it is also allowing me to understand insights and leverage points and models that used to take weeks and months now usually only take a couple hours.

On Wed Jan 22nd at 11:00 EST (New York) for 90 min. During this workshop, I’ll explain how I trained AI to help me develop better models in a fraction of the time. If you register for this workshop I’ll send the Zoom link 1 day before and 1 hr before the seminar.

* Register: https://lnkd.in/eM-iTvhv
* Example Model: https://kumu.io/-/991409

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The veil of numbers. Numbers are now mostly used to mislead… | by Aidan Ward | GentlySerious | Jan, 2025 | Medium

Dan Davies

Jan 13, 2025

VOL. VIII: CYBERNETICSTaming the unaccountability machine“Public choice cybernetics” for the 21st century.DAN DAVIESJAN 13, 2025

Taming the unaccountability machine – by Dan Davies

Rest of the publication via:

https://hypertext.niskanencenter.org/

Dr Michael C Jackson OBE

Emeritus Professor, University of Hull, UK

link:

‘Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner’s Guide’ (Wiley, 2024)

https://www.patternlanguage.com/apl/direct-159.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Conciser:

https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list

MAY 22-23, 2025 | NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO | MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

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May 22-23, 2025 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico, via its Research Group on Philosophy of Computing, is proud to invite you to participate in the International Conference on Anticipatory Systems and Rosennean Complexity.

Inaugurated by Dr. Robert Rosen, Anticipatory Systems Theory deals with how systems with the ability to anticipate model and act on future states. This conference aims to address anticipation in its many forms, including its philosophical, biological, cognitive, and technological dimensions. This year (2025) will also mark the 40th anniversary of the original publication of Rosen’s “Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical, and Methodological Foundations”, an occasion that we shall celebrate in our conference.

This conference is focused on Robert Rosen’s ideary and notions of life, complexity, modeling, and mind. For the International Conference on Anticipation, first organized by Dr. Roberto Poli on 2015, please refer to this link.

In this first edition, attendance will be free of charge.

We welcome contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

Philosophy of Science: Exploring the epistemological and metaphysical underpinnings of anticipatory systems, as well as their current and future role in scientific explanation.

Cognitive Science: Investigating the role of anticipation in contemporary, non-mechanistic cognitive science.

Theoretical Biology: Understanding life through the lenses of relational biology and Rosen’s anticipatory systems.

Foundational Mathematics of Relational Biology: Advancing formal frameworks for understanding organisms.

Complex Systems: Examining the role of anticipation in dynamic, nonlinear systems, as well as in emergent behaviour.

Medicine: Applying anticipation to predictive diagnostics, personalized treatment, and healthcare systems.

Artificial Intelligence: Studying anticipatory artificial intelligent systems, as well as their ethical and practical implications.

Climate Crisis: Leveraging anticipatory systems theory as strategy to address challenges related to climate change, including mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability.

Presentation Modalities

Participants may choose from the following presentation formats:

Oral Presentations: 25-minute talks followed by a 5-minute Q&A session, designed for sharing significant findings or conceptual advancements.

Panel Discussions: Collaborative sessions featuring 3-5 panelists addressing a specific topic related to anticipation, with a moderator facilitating audience interaction.

Workshops: Interactive, hands-on sessions aimed at exploring specific tools, methods, or approaches to anticipation in depth.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025

Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2025.

Venue & accommodation

This conference will be an in-person event to be celebrated in the Central Campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City (Mexico). Nearby hotels and other accommodation recomendations will be sent to all accepted authors.

Proceedings book

We will gladly organize a collaborative volume to be published in an open access journal if the participating authors show enough interest. This will be discussed during the conference.

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1st International Conference on Anticipation