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3.  Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022): 5.2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.28963/5.2

Published: 19-12-2022

Editorials

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Articles

Witnessing and Bearing Witness. On offering systemic consultations and practices of solidarity at the Uyghur Tribunal.

Charlotte Burck, Gillian Hughes, Julia Granville, Julia Nelki

1-13

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“Think different” to prevent extinction. Connecting Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Epistemology with Posthumanism

Hugh Palmer

14-27

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Adventures in time, gender and therapeutic practice. Embracing a queer systemic way of working with gender expansive families

Amanda Middleton

28-44

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Money Talks. Personal reflections from a systemic therapist on inequality, speaking out, and leaving the NHS

Julie Oates

45-52

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The Transformational Power of Expressive Writing

Dawn Louise Thibert, Thivvia Ragunathan

53-72

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Miss Be, Her Red Threads, and the Others. A Story about Social Justice and the Appreciation of Visual Art in Research Practice

Anja Zimmermann, Dr. Maaike Hermsen

73-81

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Distinctions in Practitioner Research between Professional Practice and Research Practice

Gail Simon

82-119

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Revivals

Interviewing Peter Lang

Smaro Markou

120-137

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Practice and Research Notes

Reclaiming the relationship with bodily knowing through movement in nature

Lorna Edwards, Andreas Breden, Chiara Santin, Justine Van Lawick, Erik van der Elst

138-151

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Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society
The Viable System Model in Action

By 

Angela Espinosa

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable Syst

How’s this ? Open Systems Theory – Making adaptive and Lasting Change 2x3day course 17th – 19th and 24th to 26th of February 2023 – Canberra, Australia with Merrelyn Emery and Peter Aughton @Mihail Sestakov, @Alidad Hamidi, @Trond Hjorteland and @Peter Aughton are helping to organize a a course in Canberra Australia in late February on Open Systems Theory (OST), this will be facilitated by none other than Merrelyn Emery, who along with her husband Fred Emery are the experts not only on the theory of OST but also on how it can be practically applied. OST is one of the most coherent application of systems thinking that we have seen, with a thorough scientific theoretical back ground and immediate practical application supporting organisations and groups to be equipped to handle the true nature of being a viable adaptive organisation. OST is elates people and their organizations to their extended social field. It promotes participation and democracy. Learn OST through the application of theory to the methods experiencing why some methods work while others don’t. You will learn about all the OST methods, the Search Conference, Participative Design Workshop, 2 Stage Model and Unique designs. This suite of methods covers all contingencies in all contexts. To find out more please let us know or click below to find out more https://events.humanitix.com/ost_canberra/

Fri 17th Feb 2023, 3:00 pm – Sun 26th Feb 2023, 9:00 pm AEDT

Open Systems Theory, Making Adaptive Lasting Change, Belconnen, Fri 17th Feb 2023, 3:00 pm – Sun 26th Feb 2023, 9:00 pm AEDT | Humanitix

The book is about an empirical, systems theory of a general, systemic/structural view of parts of the world integrated with creative problem solving procedure with the latter generating a ‘product and systems’ design method. As an alternative to the speculative and fragmented nature of current ‘systems thinking’ and practice, the book proposes three principles of systems: ‘Generality/nested hierarchy, changes of equilibrium states and problem solving/purpose’ together with ‘linguistic modelling’ using processed, natural language or transformation of narratives of scenarios into sequences of logical conditionals, the executor of the principles. Implementation of the creative, innovative, inspirational stage leads to ‘design parameters’ which guide the detailed design of systems and products defined as any entity capable of generating interaction. Uncertainties and mathematical models are introduced at the object/agent level as required. The theory is ‘property driven’ i.e., uses qualitative, quantitative properties including social, emotive and other mental states. Elementary, systemic or structural properties are ‘1 – and 2 – place simple sentences’ which can lead to operational representations when appropriate. Meaning preserving, linguistic transformations convert a narrative or story into such sentences. A user driven approach to the analysis of ‘information’ is introduced. Recent paradigm changes and problematic issues in current ‘systems thinking’ are reviewed. The theory is based on accepted branches of knowledge such as linguistics, network theory, biology, physics, chemistry, social science as needed, it is highly teachable, introduces linguistics in addition to mathematics as a symbolic model and can inspire further research. It introduces four criteria for judging the ‘soundness’ of symbolic models. However, it needs peer review, software development to work out the dynamics of scenarios and further developments for applications to more practical problem situations in organisations, technical and natural circumstances.

Science and Design of Problem Solving Systems eBook : Korn, Janos: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Anthony S. White,

Lindsey Brodie &

Michael Censlive

4 Dec 2022

Full article: Application of perceptual control theory to a Beer Game supply chain model

In the systems thinking network group on LinkedIn, John Evans shared his book

He gives the caveat “It’s a bit dense, terse even, because it started out as a backup to an in house training course” – but I and others thought on first look that it seems useful. John (I hope he doesn’t mind me saying) can be on the curmudgeon scale – sometimes quite extremely so – but he certainly has useful experience, techniques, and perspective to share.

The book:
key concepts in systems thinking – John Evans

He also shared this:
https://www.academia.edu/48912553/Chapter_2_The_Biological_Basis_of_Thought_and_Perception

The Significance of Regenerative Learning

One of the root causes of our global environmental crisis is the way in which education is imparted and the manner in which it is used to fuel relentless economic growth. Contemporary education systems remain long on building an ‘extractive’ mindset and are hopelessly ‘unfit for purpose’ as we wrestle with converging crises of climate emergency, ecological collapse, racial inequality and worsening social injustice.

Regenerative learning is a response to this harsh reality and goes beyond structured education. By collectively focusing on ‘nurturing people and caring for the planet’, we can transcend old paradigms and explore how to repurpose old structures, schools and universities.

This webinar will feature Shakti Saran, Founder, Shaktify in conversation with Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College and will be facilitated by Andrea Stone, an emotional intelligence leadership coach. They will explore the realm of regenerative learning, its significance, how it manifests itself, and what can be done to overhaul education systems to make them more humanistic and sensitive to the needs of our planet.Time

Dec 8, 2022 08:30 PM in Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi

Webinar Registration – Zoom

Prof Gerald Midgley says:

Here’s a new paper that I have co-authored with Rachel Lilley and Mark Whitehead, entitled “Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights: Reflections on the Meditative Brain, Systems Theory and Organisational Change”. Access is free – there’s no paywall.ABSTRACT This paper explores the impacts of the Mindfulness-Based Behavioural Insights and Decision-Making (MBBI) programme. Combining mindfulness with behavioural insights instruction, the authors have developed the MBBI programme through a series of iterative trials over the last ten years. In addition to fusing mindfulness and behavioural insights, this programme also draws on the theories of autopoiesis, anticipatory systems, the predictive brain and constructed emotions, which all challenge the common assumption that behavioural and emotional responses are automatic (triggered by given stimuli and not open to change through self-reflection). The paper explores the use of the MBBI in the Welsh Civil Service. Employing evidence from in-depth interviews with participants and a SenseMaker analysis, it rethinks the role of mindfulness at work, repurposes the application of behavioural insights training toward a more ethical and systemic direction, and develops a reflective approach to capability building amongst public servants.https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/3857/4199…

https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/3857/4199?fbclid=IwAR1YuMaJ2e8lbW2N3NMlIWQr6i-__OS-DCEduvmwYcHXp4mzQAlwSTSzSww

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Plato introduced the κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs); the person who has acquired the art of steersmanship, as a metaphor for the adequate manager of a system.

It became the 𝘨𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 in Latin.

And the 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳 in English.

André-Marie Ampère suggested that the future science of government should be called ‘𝘭𝘢 𝘤𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦.

In 1947 Norbert Wiener coined the term 𝘤𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 as a name for the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine. The science was established at the dawn of the digital epoch by a group of extraordinary people to provide humanity the ability to steer their systems through rapidly increasing complexity and to develop a functional frame for a healthy human-machine relationship. Due to the universality of cybernetics, many fields such as engineering, medicine, biology, sociology or psychology easily absorbed axioms and key concepts. From this emerged a new set of sciences that delivered tremendous achievements but swiftly became uprooted from their origin.

As a result, a core value of cybernetics – transdisciplinary dialogue, evaporated. The loss of dialogue is naturally accompanied by a deteriorated learning process and ethical decline.

That’s not a functional frame.

So, back to Plato!

Plato, The Republic, book VI:

“Imagine a situation like this, on one ship or many: a captain who outstrips everyone on board in size and in strength, but nearsighted, partially deaf, and with knowledge of sailing to match; sailors in mutiny over the navigation, each thinking that he ought to steer, though none has learned the skill or can point to his teacher or to the time when he learned it, who deny in fact that navigation can even be taught and are ready to cut down anyone who says that it can, always swarming around the captain begging for the wheel and sometimes, if one group persuades him and another does not, the one kills off the other or pitches them overboard, and, having stupified the noble skipper with drugs or wine, they take over and revel and party on the ship’s stores and sail as you’d expect of such rowdies, and on top of it all they praise as a navigator and sailor with knowledge of shipcraft the man who’s sharpest at persuading or coercing the captain into letting them rule, but denounce as useless a man who lacks this ability, refusing even to hear that a navigator must necessarily study the seasons and climates, the sky, the stars, the winds and everything else that pertains to his craft if he’s to become a true shipmaster, and that he will be a navigator whether anyone wants it or not, and disbelieving that 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 along with navigation. In such a state of affairs, is it any wonder that the true navigator is called a useless, babbling stargazer by the crews of such topsy-turvy ships?”

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