Systems Practice
Contributing to global conversations about how to chart a course forward. COVID-19 has profoundly changed our world in one short/interminable year. Many people have lost their lives. Society has been turned upside down. Many people have been working to keep their organisations, groups, businesses and government departments alive,
Portfolio Sensemaking
This post focuses on the recent advancements in a 'portfolio' approach to change work which is happening across multiple organisations, and is an interesting signal in a move away from planning-based approaches.
Systems Change
This post focuses on developing some good practice patterns for communicating systems change work. I have a particular interest in systems change strategies, which may be early stage or representing organisations in transition to working more systemically.
Learning In Networks
Announcing the "Learning Change: adaptive social learning for transition times" series with Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta, Amanda Tattersall and Sam Rye.
Conservation
Scanning the landscape for existing and emerging technology which could be effectively utilised for a nature restoration and conservation project.
COVID-19
Around the world, groups and organisations are scrambling to reinvent how we enable and/or do environmental conservation work during these large scale societal lockdowns.
Climate Adaptation
Climate resilience and adaptation needs to be enabled, developed and nurtured at all levels of our society, with collective strategies vital to supporting a systemic transformation to move us towards a doughnut society.
Futures
This article is a summary of a rather boisterous twitter thread which invited examples of participatory futures & collective visioning, for a COVID-19 era of social distancing.
Collaboration Cafe
A Facilitator's Workshop Guide for supporting people to work together. Back in 2012 I got together with some friends from Enspiral to develop a monthly event to get people working together more. I was having 10s of conversations with people in Wellington about their projects, and kept found
Disaster Response
This post is my early explorations of Australian Bushfire Recovery with Conservation Volunteers Australia. We are coordinating a nationwide environmental volunteering response for bushfire recovery.
Climate Adaptation
As the patterns build, I slowly allow myself to admit a rising terror about the changing climate here in Australia. All image rights are Bureau of Meterology> Based on preliminary analysis, yesterday, Australia recorded its hottest day on record. The nationally-averaged maximum daytime temp was 41.9 °C
Complexity
Why are systems thinking and complexity so... complex? In this post I share one activity and 6 resources to help you to be more comfortable in the complexity of our world.
