A little know concept, Requisite Variety, from Cybernetics packs a lot of punch as one of the most important laws of the Universe. It is a very powerful thinking tool, that you should be familiar with. This video guarantees that you will start observing how the world around you is shaped by Requisite Variety. When that happens, you will be on your way of thinking like a Cybernetician. SHOW LESS
Requisite Variety with BEER – YouTube
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Sam Rye – Fieldnote: The ‘so what’ of complexity – Parts I-III
Introduction to Part III
In August I set out to draw out the themes from insights garnered from over a decade of focus on developing strategies and experiments to influence change towards regenerative environmental and social futures, in the context of complex challenges.
You can read Part I : The ‘so what’ of complexity which focused on the character of things we’d do differently if we embrace complexity, rather than trying to control or fight against it.
Part II pulled apart the broad principles of how I approach complex challenges.
This third and final part of the series (for now), aims to address some specific practices that I use when approaching the design of initiatives which seek to influence change.
https://www.samrye.xyz/fieldnote-the-so-what-of-complexity-part-iii/
Beyond boxes and arrows. A collection of visual modeling… | by Tomomi Sasaki | Service Design Advent Calendar | Dec, 2021 | Medium
Beyond boxes and arrows. A collection of visual modeling… | by Tomomi Sasaki | Service Design Advent Calendar | Dec, 2021 | Medium
Beyond boxes and arrows
Tomomi SasakiFollowingDec 13 · 5 min read
Visual modelling languages and notation systems from the arts
We’re past the half-way mark. As we enter day 13 of the Eclectic Service Design Advent Calendar, we are delighted to host the incredible Tomomi Sasaki
. Tomomi is a strategic designer, community leader, instructor, researcher and facilitator. She splits her time between Tokyo and Paris. I always enjoy her perspectives and her beautifully curious demeanour. So was overjoyed when I saw this post. I hope you enjoy her share today.
Some people collect Pokemon cards. I collect elephant figurines. I also collect models and frameworks, and on this occasion of joining the Eclectic Service Design Advent Calendar, I’ve pulled out a couple of visual modelling languages and notation systems from a side drawer of that collection.
Beyond boxes and arrows Tomomi Sasaki
Beyond boxes and arrows. A collection of visual modeling… | by Tomomi Sasaki | Service Design Advent Calendar | Dec, 2021 | Medium
Breaking reoffending cycles in the criminal justice system – NPC (with systems map)
Breaking reoffending cycles in the criminal justice system Mapping causal factors, leverage points and funding flows
Breaking reoffending cycles in the criminal justice system – NPC
Breaking reoffending cycles in the criminal justice system
Mapping causal factors, leverage points and funding flows
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The criminal justice system is immensely complex. It encompasses many vast institutions and subsystems—the court system, the prison system, the probation system—and it interconnects with many other issues that the charity and voluntary sector seeks to tackle, such as homelessness and mental health. From our previous research, Beyond Bars 2019, we know that this complexity in the system, as well as policy turbulence and structural issues, can cause uncertainty for funders around how to use their resources effectively.
Our systems map and report
We have therefore created a systems map of the key factors that influence reoffending rates for people in the criminal justice system, with the aim of identifying places that practitioners and funders can intervene to bring about long-term change in the system. We’ve identified 20 ‘leverage points’ where changes would reduce reoffending. Onto this map, we have also layered an analysis of where, within this system, funding to charity sector organisations is going. Progress on reoffending depends on a greater understanding of how the criminal justice system works.
Our systems map and our funding analysis have enabled us to identify some key recommendations for funders and government. You can learn more about these recommendations and what our systems mapping uncovered in our accompanying report here. You can view and learn more about our systems map at the bottom of this page.
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Breaking reoffending cycles in the criminal justice system – NPC
Jobs – Associate Lecturers/Part-time tutors – Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship (STPA) | Open University
XTXY874 – Postgraduate Diploma in Systems Thinking in Practice (Professional) for Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship (STPA) | Employment
Postgraduate Diploma in Systems Thinking in Practice (Professional) for Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship (STPA)
Unit : Associate Lecturers/Part time tutors
Salary : £34,304 Pro Rata
Location : Various locations
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Advertised locations; London, South, South West, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, Yorkshire, North West, North, South East
Closing Date : 6 January, 2022 – 12:00
Postgraduate Diploma in Systems Thinking in Practice (Professional) for Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship (STPA) Unit : Associate Lecturers/Part time tutors Salary : £34,304 Pro Rata Location : Various locations Please quote reference : XTXY874 22E Advertised locations; London, South, South West, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, Yorkshire, North West, North, South East Closing Date : 6 January, 2022 – 12:00
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Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday | by Oliver Standing | School of System Change | Dec, 2021 | Medium
Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday
Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday | by Oliver Standing | School of System Change | Dec, 2021 | Medium
Tweet thread on Gerald Midgley’s Systemic Intervention
Alidad Hamidi on Twitter: “X: I find Wardley Mapping more useful than Systems Thinking Me: Interesting, how so? X: With WM I can see the connection between components, where they are in their evolution and help gain a shared perspective.” / Twitter
An unfortunate (but clever and useful) propagation of the ‘X: …. Me: …’ twitter format trope 🙂 https://twitter.com/HumanSelection/status/1471670346424094720?s=20
Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other – Call for papers – BioSystems
The special issue “Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other” is devised to host an interdisciplinary forum on scientific research based on autopoiesis and its role for undestanding life, cognition, the emergence of self/other, and related issues. It is open to various approaches, targets, and goals, all having autopoiesis as common denominator, sharing and applying its core concepts to face novel problems, perspectives, and activities.
We suggest interested Authors to manifest their interest by contacting the special issue Editors, providing a title and (preferably) an extended abstract (around 500 words) about the topic they intend to approach and other methodological details before May 31, 2022.
More at: www.journals.elsevier.com
Systems Research and Behavioral Science: Vol 38, No 6
Volume 38, Issue 6 Pages: 715-944 November/December 2021
Systems Research and Behavioral Science: Vol 38, No 6
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- Pages: 715-716
- First Published: 09 December 2021
RESEARCH PAPERS
Free to ReadRethinking agency—The 2022 agenda for the systems communityLouis Klein, Pamela Buckle, Nam Nguyen, Rika Preiser, Ray Ison
- Pages: 717-720
- First Published: 24 November 2021
The enterprise complexity model: An extension of the viable system model for emerging organizational formsRaul Espejo
- Pages: 721-737
- First Published: 06 August 2020
Drilling down the viable system theories in business, management and accounting: A bibliometric reviewFrancesca Iandolo, Pietro Vito, Francesca Loia, Irene Fulco, Mario Calabrese
- Pages: 738-755
- First Published: 13 August 2020
The emergence of problem structuring methods, 1950s–1989: An atlas of the journal literatureIon Georgiou, Joaquim Heck
- Pages: 756-796
- First Published: 10 September 2020
Open AccessPragmatism in professional practiceRichard John Ormerod
- Pages: 797-816
- First Published: 22 September 2020
Conceptualizing the systemic evaluation of dashboards in quality enhancement processes in higher educationDiane Hart
- Pages: 817-832
- First Published: 08 September 2020
Open AccessThe coordinates of scaling: Facilitating inclusive innovationAna María Sánchez Rodríguez, Malcolm MacLachlan, Aude Brus
- Pages: 833-850
- First Published: 09 September 2020
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Leadership within action research: Surfacing the collective nature of leadershipEileen Piggot-Irvine, Lesley Ferkins, Wendy Rowe
- Pages: 851-865
- First Published: 10 August 2020
Connectalism: A new paradigm for human choiceChristophe Faugère
- Pages: 866-889
- First Published: 21 July 2020
Computational intelligence within a resource budget: The case of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) swarmRichard A. Foss
- Pages: 890-901
- First Published: 05 August 2020
Open AccessRedundancy, Noisy Signaling, and Semantic inflation: Studying the Patterns of Self-Destruction in Complex SystemsKay Junge, Kirill Postoutenko
- Pages: 902-910
- First Published: 24 July 2020
Applying system archetypes in real estate development crisesAmr Abdel-Latif, Ahmed Saad-Eldien, Mohamed Marzouk
- Pages: 911-922
- First Published: 10 July 2020
Open AccessRedundancies in the communication of music: An operationalization of Schutz’s ‘Making Music Together’Mark William Johnson, Loet Leydesdorff
- Pages: 923-939
- First Published: 18 October 2020
RESEARCH NOTE
Core competencies of collective intelligence facilitatorsBenjamin Broome, Michael Hogan
- Pages: 940-944
- First Published: 27 July 2020
CYBERNETIC WISDOM, Best of Stafford Beer’s, by Javier Livas
UK Level 7 Systems thinking practitioner apprenticeship / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
SYSTEMS THINKING PRACTITIONER
Systems thinking practitioner / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education
As providers start to train the first apprentices, a good time to refresh on this. The specification and requirements for the post-graduate-level apprenticeship (which doesn’t have a specific degree requirement) are above.
The official providers page is:
https://findapprenticeshiptraining.apprenticeships.education.gov.uk/courses/556
Providers I know of:
- JGA: https://www.jga-group.com/systems-thinking-practitioner-apprenticeship-level-7/
- Cranfield: https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/about/masterships/masterships-courses/systems-thinking-practitioner-standard
- Exeter: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/degreeapprenticeships/programmes/systemsthinkingpractitioner/
- The Open University: https://www.open.ac.uk/business/apprenticeships/higher-and-degree-apprenticeships-england/systems-thinking-practitioner (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn36gjj5ixI)
- Birmingham: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/socsci/bli/programmes/systems-thinking-leadership-da.aspx
- Together Training: https://www.togethertraining.co.uk/systemthinkingpractitionerlevel7
- UK College of Business: https://www.ukcollegeofbusiness.org/courses/systems-thinking-practitioner/
- Skills Training UK (can’t find specific link): https://www.skillstraininguk.com/apprenticeships-16-65
Declaration of interest: I’ve been in the second or third tier of people who have supported this process from professional qualification to Trailblazer Committee to setting up the apprenticeship proper, and am on the board of SCiO http://systemspractice.org/ which is the professional body, will be the ‘end point assessor’ through an arms-length company, and is providing skilled trainers on an agency basis and curriculum input at least one provider.
Navigating from system mapping to innovation portfolios: a look at the transition to Circular Economy in the Western Balkans – Transitions Hub
Navigating from system mapping to innovation portfolios: a look at the transition to Circular Economy in the Western Balkans
Navigating from system mapping to innovation portfolios: a look at the transition to Circular Economy in the Western Balkans – Transitions Hub
ABCD: Origin and Essence by John McKnight – Nurture Development
ABCD: ORIGIN AND ESSENCE BY JOHN MCKNIGHT
ABCD: Origin and Essence by John McKnight – Nurture Development
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Mapping for Emergence – Emerge
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Mapping for Emergence – Emerge
THEO COX, RUFUS POLLOCK AND ANNA KATHARINA SCHAFFNER
MAPPING FOR EMERGENCE
Life Itself and Emerge will join forces to map the emergent metamodern ecosystem. But what is so great about social network mapping? Why does it matter, and how can it help?
INTRODUCTION
Life Itself and Emerge are excited to be joining forces to map a social change ecosystem emerging in recent years. In this, we are building on our existing work, for example Life Itself’s recently released State of Sensemaking directory and its earlier reports and Emerge’s portfolio of insight essays and profiles.
The ecosystem is still emerging and ill-defined. Reflecting this, there has been no clear name for it. For now, we are using the label “Metamodern” – though we remain mindful of the variety of existing options e.g. the sensemaking web, the metamodern movement or meta tribe, the liminal web, the ten tribes of transformation, the intellectual deep web, and the Emergentsia.
Why MapWhy map in the first place? What is so great about mapping, when we are already culturally inclined to mistake our many existing maps for the territory?
Geographic maps help to orient ourselves in the physical world. Social network mapping does the same in the social space. It makes networks visible to themselves and to the outside world. This has important benefits: actors can understand their position within and relationship to the larger network. They can find others. And people outside these networks can see that actors are not lone warriors but part of something bigger with discernible and shared features.
Going further, maps can reveal and visualize the deeper patterns that connect. This can be catalytic – understanding the wider system in which we are embedded, as well as the broader cultural shifts, trends and developments in which we partake, can enhance our self-understanding, facilitate new relationships and create points of connection of which we may not previously have been aware.
Moreover, maps can catalyze coherence. While many social change pioneers are working to counter social fragmentation, ironically, the social change space itself is highly fragmented. This fragmentation leads to a loss of energy, resources and effectiveness. We, too, need to find better ways to collaborate and to divide work between us – for our goals are complex and momentous. This can mean working together on specific initiatives, or identifying what are our unique gifts to the space and what, perhaps, we can pass to others. Thus, in addition to enhancing our self-understanding and strengthening our identity inside and out, mapping can help catalyze a more cohesive and focused approach in the way we work with each other.
CONTEXT: A NEW ECOSYSTEM IS EMERGING
We sense that a new ecosystem, or ecosystem of ecosystems, is emerging. A growing number of people, organizations and initiatives are taking alternative approaches to social change, which diverge from and go beyond the more established spaces in civil society and the social economy.
The ecosystem as we understand it is highly heterogeneous – even disparate. However, there are commonalities. The most basic common denominator is the belief that social change should be paradigmatic, integrated (e.g. inner and outer transformation must go hand in hand) and engaged.
We also see emerging commonalities in key views which we have termed: post-individualism, (w)holism and culture-making (in the form of new norms and narratives).
There is also a focus on complexity, systems and emergence, on developmental models, spirituality and practice, and on sensemaking, different forms of knowledge and what Indra Adnan calls ‘cosmo-local’ activism. Other commonalities include an interest in decentralized governance, new narratives, alternative social imaginaries and regenerative culture.
Nonetheless, the boundaries, relationships and patterns of influences in the ecosystem remain blurry, with our present awareness feeling like it only touches the tip of the iceberg. Questions that remain unclear include who exactly comprises the ecosystem, how activities and visions relate to one another, where the coherences and tensions lie and how it might evolve.
AN OPPORTUNITY: HOW MAPPING MATTERS
Charting this new territory is valuable for two main reasons. First, and most importantly, mapping makes it identifiable and visible. This supports engagement with the broader “mainstream” which is vital as we move from philosophizing about social transformation towards taking the kinds of action that make it a reality. Second, it helps the ecosystem’s coherence, cohesiveness and self-awareness. This supports connection both within and without the space leading to greater and better collaboration. It supports a better division of labor meaning greater efficiency and effectiveness . And, finally, it supports members to situate themselves and their work in a broader context.
Mapping makes the ecosystem identifiable and visible
We take each of these two points in turn. Mapping provides the ecosystem with a coherent identity, allowing a visible whole to emerge from what can otherwise seem like disconnected parts. What can otherwise appear as a disparate set of actors is seen as a collective whole, perhaps even a budding movement. This will give a more concrete access point to interested outside parties and early adopters, making it easier for others to discover and engage with this ecosystem and its constituents.
Following from this, the ecosystem presents a more coherent and united front when engaging with external actors such as funders, academics and policy-makers. This boosts the credibility and effectiveness of our shared efforts.
Finally, this ecosystem as a space of integration contains multiple important convergences of both ideas and effort. One example: the convergence of complexity science, evolutionary biology and cognitive science support the insights of ancient wisdom traditions around interbeing and interdependence. However, these convergences are not very visible, especially to those outside the space (in part, due to varying terminology etc). In mapping the ecosystem, these convergences in ideas, efforts and practices become visible. This connects the ecosystem to the broader landscape and also brings insights and coherence more widely. Concretely, this reduces the duplicative work of repeated explanation and legitimation currently undertaken by many aligned actors, particularly as they attempt to secure funding or achieve impact in more mainstream contexts.
Mapping brings coherence and cohesiveness
This brings us to our second major point: helping the ecosystem to become more self-aware will increase the capacity of its members to achieve their goals. Here, a mapping effort enables actors to connect and collaborate better with others doing related work. It also helps them situate themselves and their activities in a broader context. The result of this will be greater consistency and division of labor across individual organizations and actors, fostering an increased willingness to collaborate and play to our unique advantages.
At present, many actors in the space hold a vague awareness that there are others out there doing similar work to theirs. Perhaps, they even have a sense of who they may be. However, in many cases, this is about as far as this understanding goes, meaning efforts are often duplicated and strategies are not aligned as effectively as they could be.
Similarly, many of us feel compelled to engage in a large and often quite disparate number of activities, from hosting events and creating media to undertaking research and developing practice. Closer connections and awareness of specialisms within the ecosystem is the first step to facilitating greater focus at the level of individual organizations, opening the possibility for collaboration around certain areas to replace formerly ‘in-house’ activities. This would enable more resources to be directed at what each of us do best, allowing us to become more cause-oriented. Ultimately, greater focus and collaboration are key to realizing our shared visions.
VISION FOR THE INITIATIVE
The nature and the scale of our goals for this mapping initiative make collaboration a key to success. Life Itself and Emerge are excited to be working together to scale and develop this work and welcome the participation of others. We also want to ensure it can be as useful as possible to the wider ecosystem – not just an academic exercise.
Life Itself has already started with the launch of a directory and analysis of the ecosystem. Together we will continue to add new organizations. We will start to supplement these with personal profiles of key actors in the ecosystem. In that way, we hope that the directory can also function as a ‘who is who’ in the space for those who want to learn more about it.
In the more medium term, we want to add more analytical depth to the map. Our current ideas include analyzing trends in key concepts and ideas over time, mapping where organizations sit relative to one another based on core characteristics, and perhaps even charting their roles and functions within the ecosystem.
We also envisage this as a ‘mapping plus’ effort where we reflect critically on how and why we do the mapping, what exactly it is that we are mapping and how we can explain and put into a broader historical context the trends and synergies we see emerging.
GET INVOLVED
Finally, we would love to receive input and contribution at this early stage. If you would like to provide suggestions or get involved then please head over to https://ecosystem.lifeitself.us/contribute. Here are some of the ways to help out:
+ Provide feedback on the project so far, or ideas about which features or foci you think would be most useful going forward.
+ Suggest organisations to add (or improvements to current entries – especially on your organization!).
+ Coding and design on the project backend and visualizations.
+ Let us know if you wish to work more directly on the project, or are already undertaking work which you think would be complementary.
+ Resourcing: We would welcome the sharing of any opportunities for resourcing, or offers of direct support! We are currently undertaking the project using only our own internal resources, which limits the scope and speed of our activities. Additional resources could make a big difference to sustaining and expanding this work.
We look forward to hearing from you, and hope you can continue to join us as we venture forward to chart this new and exciting territory.
MAPPING FOR EMERGENCE
Mapping for Emergence – Emerge
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