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August 30, 2012

More Science to the Social

“Sensitivity can be very self-absorbing.”

-Bill Reed

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The older I get the more of an appreciation I have for science. Perhaps this is the natural balancing process that occurs over time in my Myers Briggs profile – more T to my natural F, more S to my natural N. It also owes to the impatience I have with the tendency I’ve noticed to throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to social change. Two examples I’d like to lift up are thinking about and reactions to consensus and hierarchy. As I become more influenced by research into living systems, I realize that these concepts are often given a bad name because of our tendency to take (or make) things very personally. Read More

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March 22, 2012

From Systems Thinking to Systems Being

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The post below is a repost of a piece by Kathia Laszlo on the “Rethinking Complexity” blog from Saybrook University.  It captures a lot of what I am exploring these days about systems thinking as an intellectual exercise to greater embodiment of doing systemically.  Enjoy!

A system is a set of interconnected elements which form a whole and show properties which are properties of the whole rather than of the individual elements. This definition is valid for a cell, an organism, a society, or a galaxy. Joanna Macy says that a system is less a thing than a pattern—a pattern of organization. Read More

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