Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration (Page 5)

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Systems Practice

#AfterShock - (re)thinking in systems

Is 'systems thinking' a passing fad for Government, or a zeitgeist which captures an important shift where complexity is embraced instead of fought against?

Systems Practice

Learning from COVID-19

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, rapidly

Portfolio Sensemaking

Portfolio approaches to change: emerging patterns & resources

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

Fieldnotes: Communicating Systems Strategy

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

Learning Change: in conversation with Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta, and Amanda Tattersall

Announcing the "Learning Change: adaptive social learning for transition times" series with Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta, Amanda Tattersall and Sam Rye.

Conservation

Horizon Scan: Emerging tech for nature conservation in the Yarra Valley

Scanning the landscape for existing and emerging technology which could be effectively utilised for a nature restoration and conservation project.

COVID-19

New Practice: Community Engagement for Environmental Action in a COVID-19 era

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 Adaptation in the Yarra Ranges: Home Scale

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

Participatory Futures in the age of COVID-19

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.

Disaster Response

Recover

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.