Haven’t come across this before (the site was set up, I think, in November 2021). Comes across as very ‘sales-y’ and there are certainly some books in the ‘top 35’ that I wouldn’t choose – quite interesting.
Our Systems Change Frameworks
We at The Systems Sanctuary teach and train people who want to create the conditions for systemic change. We use many frameworks and tools to do this. Here are some of the frameworks we have created ourselves (along with a few favorites created by 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 session will be held on Zoom, the details of which will be confirmed nearer the time.
There will be two sessions during this open meeting.
This meeting replaces a provisional F2F event, moved back online due to Covid – it will NOT be held in London as originally planned.
Roger Duck and Jane Searles will share their recent experience of creating conditions to enable exploration of transformational systemic change. The work involved the collaborative development of a visionary whole system transition architecture. The specific context was regional transport, but the … Read more
Patrick will talk about his new book ‘The Grammar of Systems’ which is in two parts: the ‘Grammar’ describing 33 Systems Laws and Principles and how to use them; and ‘How to think like a Systems Thinker’ which goes through 9 thought patterns involved in systems thinking. In the session we’ll loo… Read more
SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – March 2022 Mon 21 March 2022 18:30–20:30 GMT Event type: Open Meeting Organiser(s): SCiO UK Event access: All welcome Book now SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – March 2022 Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems & Complexity in Organisation’s members and others.
I’m including this here mostly because I was absolutely blown away by this conversation, and I want more people to listen to it. It’s four hours, sorry.
And it isn’t really ‘systems thinking’ per se. But the effortlessness with which they – especially the guest, Shrayan Bhattacharya – shift between the ‘topics’ of economy, art, movies, taste, sexism, society, economy, change, joy, sexuality, politics, and so on – almost as if they weren’t actually ‘topics’ at all, but one interrelated weaving of lives – is beautiful and very appropriate. And it’s hella metamodern (to coin a phrase), it’s about fandom and trivia and media mix and the collective journey and the female gaze on the economy. It’s quite brilliant.
10 Jan 2022 Episode 259: The Loneliness of the Indian Woman Indian women are lonely in the bedroom, lonely in the kitchen, lonely in the workplace. Shrayana Bhattacharya joins Amit Varma in episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the interior and exterior lives of these unseen millions.
JPHMP Editor-in-chief Lloyd Novick speaks with Kristina Y. Risley and Christina R. Welter about best practices for enacting change at different levels while describing the factors, processes, skills, and tools required for leading complex change.
We live in an increasingly complex world. Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, deepening racial, health, and social inequities have only accentuated this complexity. More than a traditional behavioral change approach is needed to address systemic challenges. Creating genuine, effective, equitable, and lasting change in our systems and institutions requires that we expand who we involve and how we think to ask questions that get to the root of problems and lead to solutions that work for everyone — especially those who are most impacted by our systems.
Written for public health practitioners and partners, Leading Systems Change in Public Health: A Field Guide for Practitioners provides an inclusive process and framework with tools for implementing change that leads to transformation. This comprehensive resource translates academic and practice experiences into a roadmap that is approachable and easy to use, regardless of where you or your institution are on the journey to change. Leading Systems Change also features real-life public health systems change initiatives that apply concepts explored in the book.
I recently had the opportunity to speak with two of the book’s editors, Kristina Risley and Christina Welter.
Kristina Risley
Kristina Y. Risley, DrPH, CPCC, is an Executive and Leadership Coach with Kris Risley Coaching. She has served the public health field in this role since being certified with the Co-Active Coaching Institute in 2004. Dr. Risley earned her DrPH in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also has a Master’s Degree in Developmental Psychology; she has a sincere interest in the intersection of human and public health workforce development.
Christina Welter
Christina R. Welter, DrPH, MPH is a nationally recognized policy practitioner, visionary leader, and practice-based researcher committed to helping organizations and communities co-create equity-centered systems change. She is the Director of the Doctorate in Public Health Leadership Program and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health. Dr. Welter’s scholarship focuses on mixed-method participatory action research and evaluation approaches to understand and address the structural determinants of health; facilitate learning, leadership development, and power building for structural change; and drive policy and systems change toward racial and economic justice.
Explaining behaviour through the sequence of changes that occurred over the course of evolution, with an example of how basic feedback control of interaction was elaborated during vertebrate evolution to give rise to the functional architecture of the mammalian brain.
Time for Action: Reaching for a Better Understanding of the Dynamics of Cognition Open Access Published: 03 June 2019 Resynthesizing behavior through phylogenetic refinement Paul Cisek
This article proposes that biologically plausible theories of behavior can be constructed by following a method of “phylogenetic refinement,” whereby they are progressively elaborated from simple to complex according to phylogenetic data on the sequence of changes that occurred over the course of evolution. It is argued that sufficient data exist to make this approach possible, and that the result can more effectively delineate the true biological categories of neurophysiological mechanisms than do approaches based on definitions of putative functions inherited from psychological traditions. As an example, the approach is used to sketch a theoretical framework of how basic feedback control of interaction with the world was elaborated during vertebrate evolution, to give rise to the functional architecture of the mammalian brain. The results provide a conceptual taxonomy of mechanisms that naturally map to neurophysiological and neuroanatomical data and that offer a context for defining putative functions that, it is argued, are better grounded in biology than are some of the traditional concepts of cognitive science.
Pierre Teilhard Chardin (1881-1955) developed an evolutionary worldview that was both spiritual and consistent with the scientific knowledge of his day. He has been largely forgotten by modern evolutionary scientists but remains widely read by those who are inspired by his vision of conscious evolution leading to a planetary superorganism. This working paper examines the major tenets of Teilhard’s vision from a modern evolutionary perspective in an effort to integrate “hard” evolutionary science with conscious efforts to manage cultural change.
A global gathering for systems innovators…
Si Conference
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What
Si London Conference will be a unique 2 day event bringing together a diverse community of systems thinkers, systems changers and innovators
When
The event will take place in person in London UK, for two full days on May Friday 13th and Saturday 14th, 2022
The Competence in Complexity programme offers a year-long process for participants to develop their 21st century competencies and to demonstrate them in practice in effective, transformative action. Download: details of next Programme May 2022 – May 2023 The programme is hosted in our online Atelier space, a dedicated virtual space for participants to connect, converse, share and access materials, resources and insights and to remain ‘on campus’ throughout in a dedicated community of practice. All workshops in the programme are conducted online to allow for international participation. The curriculum is designed around three modules (see graphic). Each is designed to be a valuable and rounded experience in itself. We recommend, however, that participants take the full programme in order to gain maximum benefit from a supported learning environment designed for slow, substantial growth and development over the course of a full year.
In today’s post, I am looking at the Socrates of Cybernetics, Heinz von Foerster’s ethical imperative:
“Always act so as to increase the number of choices.”
I see this as the recursive humanist commandment. This is very much applicable to ethics, and how we should treat each other. Von forester said the following about ethics:
Whenever we speak about something that has to do with ethics, the other is involved. If I live alone in the jungle or in the desert, the problem of ethics does not exist. It only comes to exist through our being together. Only our togetherness, our being together, gives rise to the question, How do I behave toward the other so that we can really always be one?
Von Foerster views align with that of constructivism, the idea that we construct our knowledge about our reality. We construct our knowledge to“re-cognize” a reality through…
2022 Critical Social Ontology Workshop Program
Posted on January 28, 2022 by rgroff2013
Conference will be free, but you’ll need to register. Details coming shortly. For now, e-mail ruth groff slu.edu to express your interest.
Evaluating government spending: Findings and recommendations from the latest National Audit Office report
Tuesday 15th March 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 GMT
Presenter: Phil Bradburn, National Audit OfficeYou are warmly invited to join us for the following CECAN Webinar… Webinar Overview: At the National Audit Office (NAO), we believe good evaluation is key to helping government to learn whether its interventions are working and to demonstrate accountability for the use of public money.Our 2021 report Evaluating Government Spending finds that Government has recently taken steps to strengthen the way it evaluates its activity, but evaluation continues to be variable and inconsistent. Much of its work is either not evaluated robustly or not evaluated at all, which means government has little information in most policy areas on what difference is made by the billions of pounds being spent.Hear from the NAO on:the actions we found that government has taken since our previous report on evaluation in 2013;progress in addressing systemic barriers to good evaluation and good use of evaluation evidence; andWhat further steps the centre of government should take to build on their reforms to date.Presenter Biography: Phil Bradburn has built and coordinated the National Audit Office’s central analysis capability since 2010. He is an expert in identifying how methods can be applied to provide audit insights. His previous experience is in economics and analysis, working in government on transport, housing and strategy. He was part of the team that produced NAO’s 2021 Evaluating Government Spending report, and their previous 2013 report Evaluation in Government.
The Competence in Complexity programme offers a year-long process for participants to develop their 21st century competencies and to demonstrate them in practice in effective, transformative action. 
The curriculum is designed around three modules (see graphic). Each is designed to be a valuable and rounded experience in itself. We recommend, however, that participants take the full programme in order to gain maximum benefit from a supported learning environment designed for slow, substantial growth and development over the course of a full year. 
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