antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:46 pm on October 15, 2025

Reimagining Systems Thinking as Cybersystemic Researching: An Invitation to a Cyber-Systemic Co-Inquiry – Ison et al (2025)

Ray Ison, Pamela Buckle, Nam Nguyen, Rika Preiser, Philippe Vandenbroeck, Louis Klein

First published: 13 October 2025

ABSTRACT

This paper reimagines the future of systems research as an enacted cybersystemic praxis that moves beyond traditional notions of systems thinking. We argue that systems research is best understood as a reflexive, embodied and situated practice that integrates systemic sensibilities, systems literacy and capabilities in (cyber)systemic co-inquiry. Drawing on insights from systems theory, cybernetics, complexity science and process philosophy, we critique the limitations of goal-seeking behaviours and advocate for a shift towards purposeful, co-inquiry-driven approaches to systems research. Our analysis foregrounds the role of conversation, relational agency and ethical responsibility in systems thinking, highlighting how systems research can be institutionalised as a dynamic practice that fosters transformative change within ongoing, conducive governance arrangements. Written from the perspective of the current executive committee (EC) members of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), an invitation is extended via this paper to join a cybersystemic co-inquiry into the future of systems research, encouraging practitioners to engage with a meta-level praxis that enables bridging of new modes of knowing, governing and society transforming. Through this paper, we call for a renewed commitment to cybersystemic thinking that enables new forms of knowing and acting in the Anthropocene, positioning systems research as a vital practice for navigating complex global challenges.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sres.3189

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:44 am on October 14, 2025

Pacing Changes, Appreciating Approaches to Systems and Designing | RSD14 – David Ing

October 13, 2025 daviding

Pacing Changes, Appreciating Approaches to Systems and Designing | RSD14

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:30 am on October 14, 2025

Refreshing a Curriculum in Systems Thinking and Social Systems Designing for Learners in a Graduate Program – David Ing

October 11, 2025 daviding

Refreshing a Curriculum in Systems Thinking and Social Systems Designing for Learners in a Graduate Program

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 8:52 am on October 13, 2025

Is there someone who writes about systems thinking and disability I should read? (Skeet from Yvonne Lam on Bluesky)

On Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/yvonnezlam.bsky.social/post/3m2z53e3ee226 ), Yvonne Lam ‪@yvonnezlam.bsky.social‬ asks:

Is there someone who writes about systems thinking and disability that you’d recommend I read? Consider this a wide net; I don’t know quite what I’m looking for, so I can’t ask a more focused question…

If you have any answers, respond to her direct here: https://bsky.app/profile/yvonnezlam.bsky.social/post/3m2z53e3ee226

I said

It’s a good question! I was seized when I heard https://stream.syscoi.com/2024/04/01/history-of-philosophy-without-any-gaps-442-scott-williams-on-disability-and-the-new-world/ that there is a strong overlap but I don’t know and can’t find a ‘canonical thinker’ in this space. Perhaps because much disabilty work is inherently systems related?

I fought with ChatGPT to get the below but I think my quote holds!

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## Recommended thinkers & links

**M. Battle-Fisher**
Uses systems science, complexity, public health and ethics to frame health, inequality and structural forces as entangled systems.

Personal / professional homepage: [https://www.mbattlefisher.com/](https://www.mbattlefisher.com/) ([Battle-Fisher][1])
Google Scholar / publications: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F41BXiYAAAAJ](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F41BXiYAAAAJ) ([Google Scholar][2])
Key article: *“Complex Health Inequality”* — frames health disparities as structurally complex systems. [https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe/vol17/iss1/3/](https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe/vol17/iss1/3/) ([aquila.usm.edu][3])
TEDx talk: *“Can a systems thinking curriculum improve health outcomes?”* → [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULhx22mjjM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULhx22mjjM) ([YouTube][4])

**Dan Goodley**
A central figure in critical disability studies. His work helps supply the language of exclusion, normativity, relationality, and social justice that any rigorous system must absorb.

University of Sheffield profile: [https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/edu/dan-goodley](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/edu/dan-goodley) ([University of Sheffield][5])
*Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction* (survey / foundational text): [https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/disability-studies/book286769](https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/disability-studies/book286769) ([SAGE Publications][6])
*Dis/ability Studies: Theorising Disablism and Ableism*: [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203366974/dis-ability-studies-dan-goodley](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203366974/dis-ability-studies-dan-goodley) ([Taylor & Francis][7])
Podcast interview (“Disability, Social Models, Technology”): [https://www.thendobetter.com/arts/2021/11/1/dan-goodley-disability-social-models-technology-interdependece-on-being-human-podcast](https://www.thendobetter.com/arts/2021/11/1/dan-goodley-disability-social-models-technology-interdependece-on-being-human-podcast) ([Then Do Better][8])

**Rod Michalko**
Writes from lived experience (blindness) and offers philosophical, narrative, sensory, ontological insight. Less about system equations, more about internal / relational systems.

Wikipedia / overview: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Michalko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Michalko) ([Wikipedia][9])

**Tanya Titchkosky**
Focuses on space, access, meaning, embodiment, and how environments / infrastructures become exclusionary.

Wikipedia summary: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Titchkosky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Titchkosky) ([Wikipedia][10])
*The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning* (PDF / excerpt): [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanya-Titchkosky/publication/303419533_The_Question_of_Access_Disability_Space_Meaning/links/5b9a694245851574f7c3d216/The-Question-of-Access-Disability-Space-Meaning.pdf](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanya-Titchkosky/publication/303419533_The_Question_of_Access_Disability_Space_Meaning/links/5b9a694245851574f7c3d216/The-Question-of-Access-Disability-Space-Meaning.pdf) ([ResearchGate][11])

**Fiona Kumari Campbell, Shelley Lynn Tremain**
They don’t always work in explicit systems thinking, but their structural, normative and critical work is essential for quality modelling of disability systems.

Campbell’s *Contours of Ableism* is often cited in disability theory bibliographies (see disability studies bibliographies) ([Academia][12])
These names appear frequently in disability studies bibliographies linking power, normativity, technology and exclusion. ([Academia][12])

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## How to use this set

Start with **Battle-Fisher** if you want someone closest to systems thinking and equity in the health / institutional domain.
Use **Goodley** to ensure your systems approach includes critical theory: power, exclusion, relationality etc.
Use **Michalko**, **Titchkosky**, **Campbell**, **Tremain** to ground models in lived experience, space, embodiment, and normative critique.
When you build a systems map (agents, feedback loops, flows) overlay the language from disability studies (ableism, exclusion, voice) so your model doesn’t flatten those dimensions.
Always check whose voice is excluded by your model (e.g. marginalized populations, minoritized groups) and iterate.

If you like, I can format this into a polished one-page PDF with clickable links. Do you want me to produce that now?

[1]: https://www.mbattlefisher.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Battle-Fisher”
[2]: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=F41BXiYAAAAJ&utm_source=chatgpt.com “Michele Battle-Fisher”
[3]: https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe/vol17/iss1/3/?utm_source=chatgpt.com “\”Complex Health Inequality\” by Michele Battle-Fisher”
[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mULhx22mjjM&utm_source=chatgpt.com “Can a systems thinking curriculum improve health outcomes …”
[5]: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/edu/dan-goodley?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Professor Dan Goodley | Education | The University of Sheffield”
[6]: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/disability-studies/book286769?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Disability Studies: An interdisciplinary introduction. – Sage Publishing”
[7]: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203366974/dis-ability-studies-dan-goodley?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Dis/ability Studies | Theorising disablism and ableism | Dan Goodley |”
[8]: https://www.thendobetter.com/arts/2021/11/1/dan-goodley-disability-social-models-technology-interdependece-on-being-human-podcast?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Dan Goodley: disability, social models, technology … – Then Do Better”
[9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Michalko?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Rod Michalko”
[10]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Titchkosky?utm_source=chatgpt.com “Tanya Titchkosky”
[11]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanya-Titchkosky/publication/303419533_The_Question_of_Access_Disability_Space_Meaning/links/5b9a694245851574f7c3d216/The-Question-of-Access-Disability-Space-Meaning.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com “The QuesTion of Access: DisAbiliTy, spAce, MeAning”
[12]: https://www.academia.edu/70507458/Disability_Studies_A_Bibliography?utm_source=chatgpt.com “(PDF) Disability Studies: A Bibliography”

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 10:11 am on October 8, 2025

International Systems Sciences Society – Mini Symposia 2025-2026

https://www.isss.org/mini-symposia-2025-2026/

The speaker schedule is posted below so please check back regularly. We always send out email reminders to current and past ISSS members with an alert for the upcoming sessions.

Sessions, until Dec 31, 2025, will be held each Thursday at 17.00 UTC.

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Date	UTC Time	Presenter	Title	Abstract
9 Oct	17:00	Paul Pangaro	Cybernetics Escapes the Laboratory: Cybernetics as Anti-Wicked Praxis	When members of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University were invited to initiate a “laboratory” to situate their research, many probative questions arose for today’s presenter: If Cybernetics is a discipline that forefronts effective action in the world rather than pursuit of verifiable knowledge—then what is a “Laboratory for Cybernetics”? That puzzle loomed larger than the School’s requirements for launching any new lab: Could its mission be defined in connection to the School’s 21st-century pedagogy of climate change, social justice, and artificial intelligence? Yes—bring it on. Can there be at least three research projects consistent with its mission? Not a problem. Can it identify future funding to support the lab? Will do.Launched in January 2025, the Laboratory for Cybernetics (Lab4C) opened its virtual doors with a semester-long studio course, an ecosystem of documents, and a dose of audacity. Engaging Wicked Challenges is its studio course, serving as an on-ramp to its digital resources and scaffolding student-scholars to collaborate with its human resources, that of in-world practitioners, all to support addressing “wicked challenges.” Lab4C’s 2025 Cybernetics Prize has awarded $5000 for the best design proposal that embraces Heinz von Foerster’s “Ethical Imperative”, that is, increasing human agency and human potential through design. The most ambitious project of Lab4C may be Re-Braiding Cybernetics & AI, intent on bringing the two fields into conversation and even cooperation, catalyzed by a book exhibit, a symposium, and a publication, all occurring in 2027.Today’s mini-symposium begins with glimpses into the intentions and projects of Lab4C and segues to the proposal of “praxis-sourcing”, an evolutionary model for impact that is not confined to a single laboratory. Can a cybernetic approach to “designing design” across a collective of organizations—academic design programs yet also NGOs and corporations—better untangle our 21st-century’s wicked challenges? How might we define the necessities for 21st-century design education? What advantages would come from bridging the boundaries of disciplines, geographies, and generations?While much neglected, Cybernetics has recently been called out as something to revive, to teach, to practice, to help a world gone wild. What degree of practicality, in balance with an appropriate scale of audacity, forms an energetic tension for an open-source, anti-wicked praxis of Cybernetics, to respond to the wicked pandemics of our time?
16 Oct	17.00	John Ingram	The Food System and Food Systems ThinkingSystemic innovation for food system transformation	The 45 minute presentation will introduce how adopting a systems approach helps to identify how to transform food system outcomes related to health and other social and economic interests, and the environment. This draws on an understanding of the wide range of food system activities from primary production through to consuming food, the actors involved, and the drivers that influence their decisions. In addition to considering the consequences of these activities on the range of outcomes, the presentation will highlight how, in turn, these outcomes need to be better balanced given the inherent trade-offs within the ‘diets-health-climate’ discourse. To this end, the presentation will unpack the notions of ‘food system’, ‘food system thinking’ and ‘transforming the food system’. Using the BeanMeals project as an example, it will stress the need for ‘systemic innovation’ involving the food system actors and public and private policy makers, and the food system challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. It will close with asking the questions of how the food system approach can contribute to systems thinking and how systems science can enrich food system thinking.
23 Oct	17.00	Abel Mavura	Resilience and Participatory Urban Futures: Systems Approaches to Migration and Informal Housing	This presentation examines how displaced populations build resilient communities within informal urban housing, focusing on the adaptive strategies migrants develop in restrictive environments. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research in Paris for a PhD in Development Studies specialising in Migration, the researcher traced the lived experiences of young male migrants, revealing how agency and resilience emerge under precarious conditions. Part of this work received the 2025 Margaret Mead Memorial Award from the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) for advancing systems thinking and social justice in migration studies.Building on this foundation, ongoing research at the University of Cambridge investigates how spatial design, community planning, and social networks foster a sense of “home” for displaced populations. The study applies systems science to conceptualise resilience as a dynamic property emerging from the interplay of individual agency, collective solidarity, and systemic exclusion (Holling, 2001; Masten, 2014). It also integrates Lefebvre’s (1996) Right to the City and Harvey’s (2012) Urban Commons to examine how migrants exercise spatial agency, collective governance, and resistance to exclusionary urban policies.Using mixed methods including spatial mapping, co-creation workshops, and scenario planning, the study evaluates informal housing models such as Fender Squat, Canal Saint-Denis, and La Kunda. Informed by Turner’s (1976) community-driven design and contemporary work by UN-Habitat (2020) and Awuor (2019), it positions migrants as co-producers of urban commons rather than passive recipients of aid.Amid rising global migration and urbanisation, the project offers practical insights for policymakers, planners, and architects seeking inclusive, adaptable urban spaces. The presentation shares findings from Paris, introduces emerging Cambridge research on participatory urbanism, and proposes a “systemic inclusivity” framework integrating built-environment design, social networks, and equitable governance. Visual case study materials will enrich dialogue and invite attendees to explore how systems science can shape more just, adaptable urban futures for displaced populations.
30 Oct	17.00	Roelien Goede	Introducing Critical Systems Heuristics 2.0: A Third Boundary Extending CSH From Reflections on Critical Realism in Information Systems Research	Poorly designed information systems compel employees to find workarounds for the system in order to do their work properly. However, such workarounds compromise the enforcement of organisational governance. In our sense-making of this specific phenomenon, we considered critical realism as a framework for understanding based on its adoption in the information systems research community. Traditionally, critical systems heuristics considers two boundaries: resources versus environment and involved versus affected. For a third boundary, we propose reflecting on the potential causal structures in organisations and possible feedback loops with a view to uncover more conditioned realities and to better understand the unintended consequences of activities of a system. We advocate complementarism at the methodological level, where all methods are applied from a critical ontological perspective, focusing on the totality of conditioned realities and giving a voice to the affected. We hope that our extension, CSH 2.0, can achieve even greater recognition and acceptance of the core tenets of critical systems heuristics, namely, the totality of conditioned realities, and the impact of unintended consequences on those affected but not involved in the planning of a system.
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Mar		Andreas Nicolaides	Speciation through Genomic Reorganisation: The Phylogenetic Meta-Programme Hypothesis	Darwin’s On the Origin of Species left unresolved the problem named in its title: how new species arise. The Modern Synthesis, though uniting Mendelian genetics with natural selection, has produced no coherent theory of speciation. Instead, evolutionary biology has accumulated a patchwork of mechanisms, often treating anomalies—such as long periods of evolutionary stasis, apparently sudden transformations, reticulated phylogenies (branching complicated by cross-lineage gene flow), and recurrent hybridisation (interbreeding between distinct lineages)—as exceptions rather than signals of a deeper order.This presentation introduces the Phylogenetic Meta-Programme Hypothesis: the claim that speciation is not the incidental by-product of auxiliary processes linked to natural selection, but is structured by higher-order regulatory systems, encoded in the germline, that govern the mode and tempo of evolution. These are not fixed typological essences but dynamic, multi-scale architectures intrinsic to life’s organisation. Framed within the broader perspective of Genomic Essentialism, the hypothesis advances the view that biological organisation is driven by genomic programmes that are constitutive of life itself, rather than by emergent properties alone.Four systemic functions illustrate this architecture:1. Initiators: timers and triggers that delimit and precipitate transformation, including tandem-repeat turnover, germline resets, hybridisation, duplication, and viral invasion.2. Generators: mechanisms that expand and rewire genomic material, such as bursts of transposons, endogenous retroviruses, segmental duplications, retrocopying, and 3-D architectural change.3. Coordinators: processes that synchronise transformations across populations, including viral and symbiotic dynamics and germline programmes that align thresholds.4. Stabilisers: systems that preserve lineage coherence, such as centromeric divergence with drive suppression, piRNA surveillance, inversions, supergenes, imprinting, and incompatibility complexes. These functions do not direct development itself but transform the regulatory logic that structures it. In this sense, the system constitutes a meta-programme: a higher-order genomic architecture that converts existing developmental programmes into novel ones, linking organisms across space and time. Crucially, they also resolve the anomalies: stasis reflects stability maintained by stabilisers, sudden transformations occur when initiators cross thresholds, reticulated histories arise from coordinating processes across lineages, and hybrid dysfunction stems from divergence in stabilising systems. On this basis, the hypothesis yields distinctive predictions: genomic turnover should track clade-specific tempos of speciation; bursts of mobile elements and duplications should cluster around radiation events; shared viral or symbiotic agents should generate concordant genomic change; and hybrid dysfunction should correlate with divergence in coherence-preserving systems. Evolutionary anomalies, on this view, are not noise but signatures of a genomic meta-programme in action.

https://www.isss.org/mini-symposia-2025-2026/

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 9:32 am on October 8, 2025

Voices | Peter Erdi Ph.D. | Cybernetics – Feedback – Choice – October 21 2025, 3pm UK time, online

Event by Prometheus Project

Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Event link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UJ8JSSgYQcaTRDD9cTP1Qw

Charming and substantial, Peter Erdi is our Voices guest to explore the oddly termed topic of “cybernetics”, which in its simple roots means ‘to steer’.

Awareness of complex systems has never been more of a priority, and Peter brings his decades of experience in these topics to our Voices conversation.

Please join us and remember to pre-register here: https://lnkd.in/dcajvW5F

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 5:59 pm on October 5, 2025

Mechanistic or Relational Worldview for Talent Identification Research in Sport Science? Both-But With a Preference! Charbonnet and Conzelmann (2023)

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December 2023
Journal for Person-Oriented Research 9(2):51-74

DOI:10.17505/jpor.2023.25813

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Authors: Bryan Charbonnet, Achim Conzelmann

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This paper situates talent identification research in sport science within the broader context of developmental science, offering a conceptual framework informed by two (meta-)theoretical worldviews: the Cartesian-split-mechanistic and processual-relational worldviews. Although these worldviews are not explicitly named in the field of talent identification research, we demonstrate their implicit adoption through theoretical and methodological discourse. After comparing applications, benefits, and limitations of each worldview, we briefly discuss whether their bodies of knowledge are incompatible, competitive, or complementary. We suggest each worldview provides complementary insights with a penchant for generating nomothetic and group-specific and type-specific and idiographic knowledge, respectively.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376328704_Mechanistic_or_relational_worldview_for_talent_identification_research_in_sport_science_Both-but_with_a_preference

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:38 am on October 2, 2025

Universal Patterns, Practical Questions: Grounding systems thinking and design in systems science – Rasmussen (2025) on RSD website

Format: Keynotes & Talks, Keynotes & Talks, Topic: Methods & Methodology

https://rsdsymposium.org/universal-patterns-practical-questions/

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:41 pm on October 1, 2025

An Introduction to Relational Disobedience – eight-part pay-what-you-feel course from Mike Chitty

On LinkedIn, Mike Chitty says:

Friends,

I’m writing to invite you to something I’ve been working on for a long time.

Relational Disobedience is an eight-part course born from many years of experience in leadership, community, and social change work. It weaves together philosophy, parable, and practice, but more than that, it carries my heart and soul!

I have put everything I know into creating a space where we can learn to resist what should never have been normalised; homelessness, austerity, migrant deaths, climate change, genocide, and do so without feeding more hatred into the world.

Each session blends a story, an essay, and small group conversation. You can come to one session or all eight.

It’s Pay As You Feel – Free Is Fine, so nobody is excluded.

This course matters deeply to me – and I believe it might matter to you too.

Here’s my request: if this resonates, please not only sign up yourself but also share this invitation widely. With your help, this work can reach the people and communities who most need it.

Bookings are now open. Come and see what relational disobedience might mean for you. Use the link in the comments below…

With care,

Mike

Mike Chitty

There are times when obedience is deadly. Relational disobedience is the choice to refuse that deadening obedience. It is the courage to respond as a living, sensing, creative human being.

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/an-introduction-to-relational-disobedience-4693683?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=wsa&aff=odclsxcollection

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:27 pm on October 1, 2025

SCiO courses and Events

Please remember that All courses on the SCiO LMS are now discounted 10% to members, forever!
– use the discount code MEMBER10 when booking. The courses currently available are all at https://www.systemspractice.org/courses

There is no specially discounted course this month, but we include a brochure of our portfolio of professional development material (attached). This is intended for passing to HR or PD departments who are may be looking for training in Systems and Systems Practice. SCiO is in discussion with two large organisations to deliver such training.

EVENTS – by country

All at
https://www.systemspractice.org/events

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SCiO UK

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – October 2025

Tue, Oct 21st, 2025 13:00 – 15:00 GMT+1

SCiO’s Development Event offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO members. Development Events are both for members who are just starting out on a journey to explore Systems Thinking approaches, and for those who have many years of exploration and practice.

Members only; FREE; Online event; English BOOK NOW

SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – November 2025

Mon, Nov 17th, 2025 18:30 – 21:00 GMT

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems and Complexity in Organisation’s members and others. SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. This virtual meeting will be held on Zoom. Speakers to be announced.

All welcome; FREE; Online event; English BOOK NOW

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SCiO Nederland

SCIO-NL monthly meeting October 2025 (live in Vianen and in Dutch)

Fri, Oct 3rd, 2025 12:30 – 16:30 CET+1

SCIO-NL komt elke 1e of 2e vrijdag van de maand live bijeen, afwisselend in Vianen (Hagenweg 3c) of in Woerden (Pelmolenlaan 2). Er staan (meestal) geen vaste onderwerpen op de agenda (daarvoor organiseren we specifieke andere meetings), maar de ervaring leert dat er altijd wel een interessant gesprek op gang komt over een systemisch onderwerp. Toegankelijk voor iedereen die de jaarlijkse fee voor de live-bijeenkomsten (€50,-) hiervoor betaald. En voor KNVI-leden. En voor gasten. Neem contact op via ed@doitogether.nl als je interesse hebt, maar nog geen lid van de club bent.

NL Members + guests; FREE; Hagenweg 3c, Vianen, Netherlands; Dutch BOOK NOW

SCIO-NL monthly meeting November 2025 (live in Woerden and in Dutch)

Fri, Nov 14th, 2025 12:30 – 16:30 CET+1

NL Members + guests; FREE; Pelmolenlaan 2, Woerden (At the Office) 5, Woerden, Netherlands; Dutch BOOK NOW

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SCiO Belgium

Intervisiesessie 1: Systemisch denken voor taaie vraagstukken

Tue, Oct 14th, 2025 (- Sun, Dec 14th, 2025) 19:00 – 21:00 CET+1

In een tijd waarin maatschappelijke, ecologische en organisatorische uitdagingen steeds complexer en meer verweven raken, volstaat lineair probleemdenken niet langer. Wat vandaag als oplossing geldt, kan morgen deel worden van het probleem. Het vraagt van ons een meta-systemische blik — een denkwijze waarin we niet alleen naar het systeem kijken, maar ook naar onze manier van kijken zélf.

In deze eerste van een reeks van drie intervisiesessie gaan we samen aan de slag met het gedachtegoed uit het essay “Opening the Box. Systems Thinking for Transformative Conversations.” We gebruiken dit meta-denkkader om per sessie taaie vraagstukken met elkaar te verkennen. Je reikt deze vraagstukken als deelnemer aan uit je eigen praktijk….

Members only + guests; 30 euro; Kon. Astridlaan 144, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium; Dutch BOOK NOW

Intervisiesessie 2: Systemisch denken voor taaie vraagstukken

Tue, Nov 18th, 2025 19:00 – 21:00 CET

Members only + guests; 30 euro; Kon. Astridlaan 144, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium; Dutch BOOK NOW

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SCiO DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)

Der kybernetische Bauproduktivitäts-Check – Hannes Kraxberger

Thu, Nov 20th, 2025 19:00 – 20:00 CET

Die Bauproduktivität hat sich in den letzten 30 Jahren, im Gegensatz zum Durchschnitt der Industrie, nicht verbessert.
Grundlage für eine nachhaltige Verbesserung der Produktivität sind optimierte Prozesse auf Unternehmens- und Projektebene und darauf aufbauende kontinuierliche Verbesserungsprozesse.
Die Baupraxis zeigt, dass die Prozesse in Planungs- und Bauunternehmen oft unzureichend festgelegt sind oder bei vorhandenen Prozessbeschreibungen von den Mitarbeiter:innen nur teilweise angewandt werden.
Der Bauproduktivitäts-Check wurde entwickelt, um die bestehenden Arbeitsprozesse in planenden und bauausführenden Unternehmen auf Bauablauf- und Unternehmensebene zu analysieren, zu vergleichen und zu optimieren. …

Members only + guests; Free; Online event; German BOOK NOW

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SCiO Finland

No events are planned by SCiO Finland in October and November.

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SCiO Ireland

No events are planned by SCiO Ireland in October and November.

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 3:21 pm on October 1, 2025

Resources from SysPrac25

https://www.systemspractice.org/resources-from-sysprac25

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 6:22 pm on September 29, 2025

SCiO videos from SysPrac25 conference

https://www.systemspractice.org/resources/speakers-videos-slidedecks-podcasts?field_contains_attachment_types_target_id_verf%5B0%5D=youtube_video_a_&sort_by=field_publication_date_value&sort_order=DESC

Ed Straw Sept25 at SysPrac25

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 2:01 am on September 26, 2025

Metaphorum – The Viable System Model in 1000 words

The VSM in 1000 words

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 2:00 am on September 26, 2025

George Por – three introductory workshops of the research seminar on Connecting Islands of Coherence, Aided by Co-evolving Human and Wisdom-Fostering AI Agents

[One of them already happened, sorry!]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ssd7lxeFDdeQTLjq9Wesd7fKuogckrV2Lu3L-o9xgA4/edit?tab=t.0

invite you to three introductory workshops of the research seminar on Connecting Islands of Coherence, Aided by Co-evolving Human and Wisdom-Fostering AI Agents

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ssd7lxeFDdeQTLjq9Wesd7fKuogckrV2Lu3L-o9xgA4/edit?tab=t.0

antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 1:54 am on September 26, 2025

Clearer Thinking podcast with Spencer Greenberg Episode 281: A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)

[I’ve always really liked Slime Mold Time Mold and their brand of Extremely Online also meshes with the sort of fun creativity I quite like and that has often been found in the better sort of systems | complexity | cybernetics spaces – a pseudonymous collective blog written by ’20 mice in a trenchcoat’ taking ideas seriously.

Their ‘new paradigm’ for psychology research is… a cybernetic paradigm! Though I can’t help feeling that ‘entities and rules’ is more of a transitional object paradigm myself…]

https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/281/slime-mold-time-mold-a-new-paradigm-for-psychology-research/

CLEARER THINKING

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Episode 281: A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)

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September 25, 2025View transcript →

What changes when psychology stops naming traits and starts naming parts – can “entities and rules” turn fuzzy labels into testable mechanisms? If the mind is a web of governors with set points, what exactly is being controlled – and how do error signals become feelings? Are hunger, fear, and status-seeking all negative-feedback problems, and where do outliers like anger or awe fit? What would count as disconfirming evidence for a cybernetic view – useful constraint or unfalsifiable epicycle? Could a “parliament of drives” explain why identical situations yield different choices? And how would we measure the votes? Do abstractions like the Big Five help, or do they hide the machine under the hood? How many rules do we need before prediction beats metaphor? And could a new paradigm help make psychology a more mature and cumulative science?

SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD is a mad science hive mind with a blog. If you believe the rumors, it’s run by 20 rats in a trenchcoat. You can reach them at slimemoldtimemold@gmail.com, follow them on twitter at @mold_time, and read their blog at slimemoldtimemold.com

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https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/281/slime-mold-time-mold-a-new-paradigm-for-psychology-research/