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We Can Do Without a Conductor – Why Society Needs Less Leadership and More Social Resilience
I went to listen to Schubert’s “Tragic” Symphony this week in a local music festival here in the UK. Before the beginning…
Creating and Re-Creating Frameworks
So how about keep creating and re-creating the frameworks and models we use? Import them from someone else might help but is very limited. Work your insights into a framework……
What I’ve Learned from the New Parish Priest
Meeting the New Parish Priest I am lucky to have worked with communities that embed a spirit of service – they are spiritual and…
Learning Communities or Learning in Community
After doing some research on learning processes happening in communities, I was reflecting recently on the difference between what it is called…
How to contribute to addressing a complex problem through multi-stakeholder processes?
Starting with this question I’ve just been through a reflection on a developed approach called Change Lab that aims to create social…
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development
This is the first draft conclusion of a paper around this topic. Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Development Synergies Between Appreciative Inquiry and…
Community Trust and Effective Decision-Making
Participatory design becomes real in a sense of community – creating community and building on the social fabric is essential for trust…
Structural Determinism and the Pursuit of Conservation and Boundaries
Took me some time to read the most recent work of Maturana (co-authored with Ximena Dávila) and their biological-cultural matrix of human…
On Design
Looking around the topic we can see many ways of engaging to design. In systems design, sometimes different types of involvement are…
Conversations are Essential to the Construction of Collective Meaning
Conversations are essential to the construction of collective meaning and creation of systems. For instance, one important characteristic of a system is…