COMPLEX ANARCHISM SYMPOSIUM, 19-23 MAY 2025 IN BRUSSELS

Complex Anarchism Symposium, 19-23 May 2025 in Brussels

https://clea.research.vub.be/complex-anarchism-symposium-19-23-may-2025-in-brussels

Context, Basis, Structure, Applications

A Presentation to ISSS – 3rd August 2024

Dare to Rethink..®
Mehaad A. Tegally RPᴱᴹ
Systems Thinking, Re-engineering & Optimization Professional
Founder: Sustainable Operating System Initiative ®
“Dimensions Surfacing Heuristics”

ISSS Mini-Symposium 2024-08-03 06:05:52

ISSS Mini-Symposium 2024-08-03 06:05:52 on Vimeo

[I don’t usually share John’s work here – I don’t think it’s systems thinking and despite his brio and chutzpah – and undoubted inspiration – I think on balance he’s caused more problems than he’s made things better (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254221096_The_John_Seddon_method_for_public_sector_transformation_-_self-enlightenment_coercion_or_both), and he certainly doesn’t like me. But like a favourite band or play, it’s worth seeing his speech every few years – and this is the Mike Jackson lecture]

Centre for Systems Studies Annual Mike Jackson Lecture with guest speaker Professor John Seddon 2025 – YouTube

Cybernetics Society

1 May 2025

Tilak Shantanu presents the topics addressed in a three-part paper published in our Journal. It looks at Gordon Pask’s conversation theory (CT) and interaction of actors theory (IA) and outlines ways to apply these cybernetic approaches to designing technologies and scenarios for both formal and informal learning. The paper was published in our journal and the link is here: https://doi.org/10.58695/ec.11

Pask’s conversation & interaction of actors theories: Approaches to learning tech, Shantanu Tilak

Cybernetics Society

Pask’s conversation & interaction of actors theories: Approaches to learning tech, Shantanu Tilak – YouTube

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We are now offering 14 in-depth courses (two more will be added in the next couple of weeks!).
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RESOURCES

Five new recordings of speakers as the recent SCiO UK Manchester Event are now available on the website. 

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  SCiO UK

SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – May 2025

Mon, May 19th, 2025  18:30 – 21:00  GMT+1

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems and Complexity in Organisation’s members and others. SCiO UK 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, and there will be two speaker sessions.

Viable Service Management – Operations – Steve Hales

Practical Application of Systems Thinking to Enterprise Design – Tim Manning

All welcome; FREE; Online event; English; BOOK NOW

SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – June 2025

Tue, Jun 10th, 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

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  SCiO Nederland

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

Fri, May 2nd, 2025  12:30 – 16:00  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 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 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 i.s.m. KNVI: Opening the Box – door Jan de Visch

Tue, May 20th, 2025  19:00 – 20:30  CET

Beste leden, Dinsdagavond 20 mei (19:00-20:30) is het weer tijd voor een online presentatie van onze vereniging SCIO-NL; wederom in samenwerking met KNVI. Deze keer presenteert Jan de Visch het boek “ Opening the Box: Systems Thinking for Transformative Conversations” dat Jan samen met drie andere SCIO-leden (Miguel Pantaleon, Namrata Arora en Tony Korycki) heeft geschreven. Hoewel het boek Engelstalig is, is de presentatie in het Nederlands.  Hieronder vind je nog een uitgebreidere omschrijving van het boek en de presentatie.
Als je geinteresseerd bent, stuur mij dan een email (ed@doitogether.nl) en je ontvangt een Teams-uitnodiging. Graag tot ziens.

All welcome; FREE; Online event; Dutch & English; BOOK NOW

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

FriJune 13th, 2025   12:30 – 16:00  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 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 gasten. Neem contact op via ed@doitogether.nl als je interesse hebt, maar nog geen lid van de club bent.

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

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  SCiO Belgium

Werkingsjaarafsluiting: Verken de grenzen van je systemisch denken aan de hand van provocatieve vragen

Tue, May 13th, 2025  19:00 – 22:00  CET+1

In deze laatste activiteit verkennen we hoe we vastgeroeste denkpatronen kunnen doorbreken en nieuwe perspectieven kunnen creëren. Door middel van provocatieve vragen onderzoeken deelnemers de grenzen van hun eigen systemische benadering verkennen en innovatieve oplossingen vinden voor complexe problemen.

We focussen op cases (uitdagingen of problemen) die deelnemers zelf kunnen inbrengen. Dit kan bijv. een uitdaging rond strategie-uitvoering, change management, leiderschap, of andere zijn…..

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

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   SCiO DACH (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)

Von Grundbegriffen und sozioökologischen Systemen

Thu, Jun 26th, 2025  19:00 – 20:30  CET+1

Transformationen wirksam begleiten zu können, erfordert inhärente Komplexität anzuerkennen und einen konstruktiven Umgang damit zu finden. In diesem Vortrag beleuchten wir die Prinzipien unserer Wahrnehmung und entdecken gemeinsam ein von C. S. Holling inspiriertes Modell organisatorischer Weiterentwicklung.  Wir betrachten wie präzise Sprache und bewusste Perspektivwechsel entscheidend dazu beitragen, kontextuelle Klarheit zu erlangen, um nachhaltige Veränderung zu initiieren – und was wir aus der Entwicklung von Ökosystemen über die Gestaltung dieser Veränderungsprozesse lernen können. Begleiten Sie uns auf dieser Reise durch innovative Denkansätze, um Transformation nicht nur zu verstehen, sondern auch effektiv zu gestalten.More….

Members only + Guests; Kostenlos; Online event; German;  BOOK NOW

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  SCiO Finland

Learning Finland? – Systemic Challenges and Opportunities

Tue, May 6th, 2025  13:00 – 16:00  EEST

Finland has an international reputation as a leader in learning and development, but does this brand truly reflect today’s reality? Can our learning systems, organizations and governance structures keep pace with the challenges of a rapidly changing world? The workshop “Learning Finland? – Systemic Challenges and Opportunities” brings together policy makers, leaders, practitioners, and scholars to discuss how systems thinking can help us understand and improve learning at the individual, organizational, and societal levels….

Opening Address: Public sector innovation capacity: what influences public officials’ ability to learn, innovate and adapt to change? – Dr. Piret Tõnurist

Systemic Governance – Professor Emeritus Ray Ison

How to Co-create Learning Spaces? – Tim Logan

All welcome; FREE; 8 Maarintie,  02150 Espoo, Finland; Finnish;  BOOK NOW

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   SCiO Ireland 

Green Just Transition

Thu, May 8th, 2025  10:30 – 16:00  GMT+1

SCiO Ireland is organising an experiential “Green Just Transition” Workshop on 8 May 2025: The Green Just Transition: What will a Just Transition look like? How will we know when we get there? Systems and Complexity in Organisation (SCiO) Ireland, the national  chapter of the international systems thinking professional membership organisation, and Eurofound, the EU Agency for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, are conducting an in-person experiential research workshop on 8 May 2025.

This is an experiential process workshop with invited participants from Ireland. We will engage in a hands-on interactive process of inquiry to access collective group wisdom to access fresh insights for policymakers in Ireland and across the EU.  

The methodology draws on systems thinking and Social Presencing Theatre, a methodology developed at MIT for embodied learning.

more…..

All Welcome (booking necessary); FREE; Eurofound, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin D18 KP65, Ireland; English; BOOK NOW

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  SCiO Espana

Meeting being planned – check the website and watch this space! 

SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – Monday 19 May, 18:30–21:00 (GMT+1)

Join us online for an evening of applied systems thinking, open to all and free to attend.

This session features two talks from experienced practitioners exploring how systems thinking shapes real-world organisational design and operations:

➡️ Steve Hales – Viable Service Management: Operations

A practical look at how organisations interface with users through different types of ‘repair’ (cybernetic) loops – from IT services and the NHS to car servicing. Steve explores how users are drawn into organisational processes and what that means for managing operational viability.

➡️ Tim Manning – Practical Application of Systems Thinking to Enterprise Design

Drawing on nearly 30 years of practice, Tim explores how systems thinking underpins effective enterprise design. He’ll share lessons from business architecture and Target Operating Model design – and how we can apply systems thinking more rigorously to build organisations fit for the future.

📅 Date: Monday, 19 May 2025

🕡 Time: 18:30–21:00 (UK time, GMT+1)

🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2xR_VtY

Hosted by SCiO – the professional body for systems practitioners.

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Links:
Dulmini Perera, Leonie Link, Stefanie Huthoefer, Paola Ferrari, Florian Tudzierez. “Gregory Bateson’s Cosmos”, March 2025, Bauhaus University Weimar, https://lnkd.in/ebvqTGkG [visit this one first!]

Dulmini Perera, Jon Goodbun, Simon SADLER, ben sweeting, Leonie Link, Stefanie Huthöfer, Paola Ferrari, Florian Tudzierez. “Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson conferences,” March 2025, Bauhaus University Weimar, https://lnkd.in/eve6TXR2

Gregory Bateson Cosmos contains a bonus link to Gregory Bateson’s “living systems test”shared online for the first time. See link: https://lnkd.in/eD3Hp7dE

Includes short texts on
1. The Dialectics of Liberation Congress: London 1967
2. Wenner-Gren Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation: Burg Wartenstein 1968
3. Wenner-Gren Conference on the Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human Adaptation: Burg Wartenstein 1969
4. Conference on Human Distress and Rapid Social Change: Princeton 1969
5. Wenner-Gren Conference on Reconstructing the Ecology of a Great City: New York 1970
6. After Robert Moses, What? An Exploration of New Ways of Governing Cities and Institutions: Tarrytown Conference Center 1974
7. Lindisfarne Summer Conference on Conscious Evolution and the Evolution of Consciousness: Southampton, New York 1975

Many thanks to everyone who supported our project, the funding bodies DFG and AHRC and The Bateson Idea Group for allowing us to share Bateson’s living systems test in digital form.

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patterns vol. 2
Dec 2024

“It is precisely by falling off the bike many times that you eventually learn what the balance feels like. The skater pushing both right and left eventually goes where he or she wants to go. People who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. That is why they are so hard to live with. Please think about that for a while.” (Rohr, Richard, Falling Upward p.28)

pattern making

https://www.patternmaking.org/patternsvol2?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=6761acca99604b5f45cd78f5&ss_email_id=67657881683bb40515d37a7e&ss_campaign_name=It%E2%80%99s+here%3A+%F0%9F%92%8C+patterns+vol.2&ss_campaign_sent_date=2024-12-20T14%3A01%3A02Z

via John Evans’ LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/john-evans-56815391_individual-difference-dimension-ugcPost-7279081224441139200-Nhvz/

pdf link:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jason-Randle-2/publication/324005093_The_Development_and_Initial_Validation_of_the_Paradigm_of_Systems_Thinking_Development_and_Validation_of_Systems_Thinking/links/5ad3a10a458515c60f53b5ea/The-Development-and-Initial-Validation-of-the-Paradigm-of-Systems-Thinking-Development-and-Validation-of-Systems-Thinking.pdf?__cf_chl_tk=DZ4cm3QsWSMdVQmj43DeVQZfMnB9Itupw_EkHNLxchk-1746595743-1.0.1.1-5nRql7d15dbT5pOfhQjoSLHPsDyZ27zWHLEMHPQa1dA

Jason M. Randle, Mirella L. Stroink

First published: 25 March 2018

https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2508

Citations: 32

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‘Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots.” ’

–Peter Senge.

The current research examined the psychological construct of systems thinking alongside other established psychological constructs of intelligence, personality, cognitive complexity and creativity to distinguish systems thinking as an independent psychological construct. Across two studies, results suggest that, while systems thinking may overlap with some of these constructs, notably intelligence and cognitive complexity, these constructs did not fully explain obtained variance in systems thinking scores and suggest that systems thinking may indeed be a distinct, perhaps foundational, psychological construct that may exist as an individual difference dimension. This exploratory study discusses the theoretical implications of systems thinking as well as further psychometric validation of the Systems Thinking Scale. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Development and Initial Validation of the Paradigm of Systems Thinking
Jason M. Randle, Mirella L. Stroink
First published: 25 March 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2508Citations: 32
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‘Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static “snapshots.” ’

-Peter Senge.

The current research examined the psychological construct of systems thinking alongside other established psychological constructs of intelligence, personality, cognitive complexity and creativity to distinguish systems thinking as an independent psychological construct. Across two studies, results suggest that, while systems thinking may overlap with some of these constructs, notably intelligence and cognitive complexity, these constructs did not fully explain obtained variance in systems thinking scores and suggest that systems thinking may indeed be a distinct, perhaps foundational, psychological construct that may exist as an individual difference dimension. This exploratory study discusses the theoretical implications of systems thinking as well as further psychometric validation of the Systems Thinking Scale. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Development and Initial Validation of the Paradigm of Systems Thinking – Randle – 2018 – Systems Research and Behavioral Science – Wiley Online Library

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sres.2508

Nafeez M Ahmed

Creator of the Age of Transformation, a newsletter offering systems-thinking for the global phase-shift. Director, Unitas Futures Lab. Founder, System Shift Lab.

Table of Contents

1. Humans are not outside the earth system
2. Wake up: the system is changing
3. Giant leap?
4. Or widening gap?
5. Uncertain futures
6. System change
7. Member discussion

Superabundance is within reach. But ironically, the precondition to getting it is by giving it up. It sounds paradoxical, but this is actually the key to the next great leap in human evolution. I set this out with a rigorous scientific framework in my new paper on the Planetary Phase Shift.

20 Dec 2024 11 min read

Superabundance is Coming – but Only if Humanity Commits to Protecting the Planet
Superabundance is within reach. But ironically, the precondition to getting it is by giving it up. It sounds paradoxical, but this is actually the key to the next great leap in human evolution. I set this out with a rigorous scientific framework in my new paper on the Planetary Phase Shift.
20 DEC 2024 11 MIN READ

Superabundance is Coming – but Only if Humanity Commits to Protecting the Planet

https://ageoftransformation.org/superabundance-is-coming-but-only-if-humanity-commits-to-protecting-the-planet-2/

Steering towards Agency and Resilience
in the Age of Alien Intelligence and Instability.

Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK
July 3rd – 5th 2025

Humans at risk?
Steering towards Agency and Resilience
in the Age of Alien Intelligence and Instability.
Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK
July 3rd – 5th 2025

Metaphorum Conference 2025 – Metaphorum

https://metaphorum.org/events/conferences/metaphorum-conference-2025

by Adam Walls (Author), John Flach (Author), Fred Voorhorst (Illustrator)

Introduced by Adam Walls’ LinkedIn post:

If you are interested to learn more about Systems thinking I have co-written a book for the curious. It’s an informal book with great pictures that takes you on a walk around Zurich with me and John as we discuss some core principles of Systems Thinking. I tell real stories of examples and John gives the academic background to the points. Our hope is it will introduce a whole new audience to a powerful way of thinking.

https://lnkd.in/eGJquN9S

Here is the free full book as a PDF if you prefer electronic versions.

https://lnkd.in/eTq7bM-M

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27 Mar 2025

Carola, Michael and Matvei will look at management cybernetics as a general framework to successfully implement lean management in several industries (construction, mechanical engineering & healthcare). Numerous lean transformation projects fail or do not achieve the desired performance and/or viability that is necessary for a sustainable implementation of lean management. However, there are some factors that support the successful implementation of lean management in day-to-day business. In the opinion of the authors, these include management cybernetics and, in particular, Stafford Beer’s viable system model (VSM) as a structuring element. The paper was published in our journal and the link is below: https://doi.org/10.58695/ec.12

Cybernetics Live on management cybernetics with Carola Ritzinger-Roll, Michael Frahm & Matvei Tobman – YouTube

[Honestly, I can’t think of anyone else who has such a well-developed, complexity-aware, thoroughly researched and detailed analysis and prescription for a large and important part of the US (and by implication world) system. If you know of any, let me know!]

Monday Feb 24, 2025

In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck explores the flawed nature of North America’s current “housing bargain,” where most neighborhoods are allowed to stay exactly the same as long as some neighborhoods — usually those that are poorer and have less political clout — are forced to radically change. He proposes a new way forward that respects cities as living and evolving systems.

America Needs a New Housing Bargain. Here’s Why.
Monday Feb 24, 2025

America Needs a New Housing Bargain. Here’s Why. | The Strong Towns Podcast

https://podcast.strongtowns.org/e/america-needs-a-new-housing-bargain-here-s-why/