From Small to Systemic. The Multibillion-Euro Potential in Social Innovations.
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Joanna Macy on the Shambala Warrior
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Collaborating With The Enemy
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Using MLP To Explore System Change Strategy Ideas
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Http://www.50in10.org/
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A Call For Systemic Impact
30
Lankelly Chase System Changers Help You Find The Flex In The System
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Lankelly Chase System Changers Help You Make Change Happen
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Funding System Change - Introduction Talks About System Change As An Outcome
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Valuing Ocean Experiments…part I: The Funder’s Perspective
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Valuing Ocean Experiments…part Ii: The Collaborator’s Perspective
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What Is Systems Change: An Outcome And Process
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A How To For System Innovation: A Starting Place For Practitioners
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What Are The Capabilities We Need For System Change?
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SiG introduction to Social Innovation Labs
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Social Innovation Lab Guide
40
Give Your Partnerships Some Backbone
41
Three Keys To Unlocking Systems Level Change
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Designing For Social Change
43
This is a doer's guide to large systems change for flourishing futures: we must and can do much better at addressing issues such as climate change, food security, health, education, environmental degradation, peace-building, water, equity, corruption, and wealth creation.
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Blogs And Resources On Collaboration, Interact Networks
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An Outcomes Mind-set For Systemic Impact
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The Dawn of System Leadership
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Communities Of Practice
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Six Strategies For Creating System Change For A Sustainable Future
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A Guide To System Change And How To Do It
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The Finance Innovation Lab: A Strategy For Systems Change
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Bringing An Entrepreneurial Mindset To The World’s Failing Systems
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21 Toolkits, Whitepapers, And Best Practices For Open Innovation
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Building Ecosystems For System Change
54
Platforms For Partnerships
55
System Change What It Is And How To Do It
56
Spectrum Of Collaborative Working
57
Beauty And Personal Care (BPC) Sustainability Project
58
Cultivating System Change: A Practitioner’s Companion, Do Sustainability
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Systemic Change Process Map
60
Working Collaboratively: A Practical Guide To Achieving More
61
Freefall Writing
62
The Social Innovator’s Guide To Systems Thinking Part ii: Rules For Innovators Leveraging Bigger Change
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Sustainable Learning Lab Learning Systems For Inclusive Business Models Worldwide
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Leadership For Sustainability: An Action Research Approach, Marshall, J., Coleman, G., & Reason, P (2011). Greenleaf Publishing. (Book)
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Power: A Practical Guide For Facilitating Social Change
66
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
67
The Positive Deviant: Sustainability leadership in a perverse world
68
“How To Start a Movement”
69
Cynefin Framework
70
How To Build A Network To Change A System: A Case Study Of The Re-amp Energy Network
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Doing Action Research In Your Organisation (Book)
72
Systemic Action Research
73
The Birth Of The Bhavishya Alliance
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Techniques For Environmental Decision Making: A Systems Approach
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Good and Bad Power
76
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Survive
77
Seven transformations of leadership
78
Action Inquiry: The Secret Of Timely And Transforming Leadership
79
Living Systemic Thinking
80
The Art Of Powerful Questions
81
Strategic Questioning: Engaging Peoples Best Thinking
82
Introduction Handbook Of Action Research: Participative Inquiry And Practice. P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.) (2001) Sage Including Different Ways Of Knowing (Pp27-29 Of Pdf)
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Living Life As Inquiry
84
Diffusion Of Innovation - Understanding The Different Kind Of Actors
85
Diffusion of Innovations
86
Dancing With Systems Donella Meadows
87
Creating The Big Shift: Systems Innovation For Sustainability (Publication)
88
System Change Field Notes
89
Frameworks Of The Field Pdf
90
Mapping Momentum: A Snapshot of the Emerging Field Of Systems Change
91
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative
92
Frameworks Of The Field - Kumu Map + Presentation
93
Protein Challenge
94
Key Words: Building a Language for Systems Change
95
Academy For Systems Change
96
Theory U Guided Journaling
97
Learning Pathway Grids
98
Action Learning Sets (Paper)
99
Case Clinics
100
The Practice Of Action Inquiry
101
Art Of Hosting Methods
102
Collaborative Off Line Reflection: A Way To Develop Skill In Action Science And Action Inquiry
103
Complex Challenges
104
Collaboration Guidebook: Initiating, Building And Managing Collaborations For Long-term Success
105
Collaboration Is The Jet Fuel For Social Innovation
106
Why Collaboration Matters: The Platform For Social Innovation
107
Walking The Talk. How Can We Learn To Be Better Collaborators?
108
Define Your Audience (Ideo Design Kit - Plus Other Tools That Help You Engage People)
109
Shadowing (Prescencing Institute Tool)
110
Diy Toolkit - Tools That Help You Engage People
111
Human-centred Design Tools To Help You Engage People
112
Persona Tool (From Diy Toolkit)
113
Stakeholder Interviews (Prescencing Institute Tool)
114
Practical Guide To Empathy Maps (10 Minute Persona)
115
Dialogue Interviews (Prescencing Institute Tool)
116
Human Centred Design (Can Also Be Used As The Beginning Of System Change Projects)
117
Participatory Methods Toolkit
118
Hub Hosting And Programming Handbook
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Facilitation Resources - Seeds For Change
120
Deep Democracy Introduction
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Tools For Taking Action
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Action Experiments Approach (Drawing On Action Inquiry): An Introduction From Systems Learning
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Prototyping Tool
124
Tools For Unknown Futures
125
What Roles And And Innovations Can Help Accelerate Sustainable Lifestyles?
126
A Taxonomy Of Innovation
127
Methodkit Stories
128
Leverage Points: Places To Intervene In A System
129
Scaling Up Impact: A Guide For Collective Action
130
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
131
Not On The Label
132
Gaia: A New Look At Life On Earth
133
The Future Of Doing Good
134
Three Horizons, The Patterning Of Hope
135
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, The Economy And The World
136
Conscious Capitalism
137
Leading From The Emerging Future: From Ego-system To Eco-system Economies
138
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience And The Fight For A Sustainable Future
139
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
140
Small Is Beautiful: A Study Of Economics As If People Mattered
141
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, And Society In The Age Of Transition
142
Cradle To Cradle, Remaking The Way We Make Things
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The Third Plate, Field Notes On The Future Of Food
144
Reinventing Organisations
145
Capitalism In The Web Of Life: Ecology And The Accumulation Of Capital
146
No Logo
147
The Systems View Of Life: A Unifying Vision
148
Prosperity Without Growth
149
Sapiens: A Brief History Of Mankind
150
Leviathan, Or The Whale
151
Lollipop Leadership
152
Hell And High Water: Climate Change, Hope And The Human Condition
153
Post-capitalism: A Guide To Our Future
154
Capitalism As If The World Matters
155
How To Thrive In The Next Economy
156
The Empathic Civilization: The Race To Global Consciousness In A World In Crisis
157
The World We Made
158
Doughnut Economics
159
Designing Regenerative Cultures
160
The Uninhabitable Earth
161
Feral: Rewilding The Land, Sea And Human Life
162
Wild: An Elemental Journey
163
The Brain - The Story Of You
164
This Changes Everything
165
Open Veins Of Latin America: Five Centuries Of The Pillage Of A Continent
166
The Web Of Life, A New Synthesis Of Mind And Matter
167
Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points
168
The City & The City
169
The Dune Series
170
Ready Player One
171
The Overstory
172
The Road
173
The Hunger games
174
Mary Oliver
175
David Whyte
176
The True Cost (Netflix)
177
This Country Isn't Just Carbon Neutral — It's Carbon Negative
178
Costing the Earth
179
John Leguizamo's Latin History For Morons (Netflix)
180
Before the Flood
181
The Case For Optimism On Climate Change
182
Why The Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone
183
Embracing Complexity: Strategic Perspectives for an Age of Turbulence
184
Thinking in Systems, A Primer
185
What is a System
186
Complexity Worldview
187
Transition Management
188
Systems Mapping
189
A Systems View Of Life, A Unifying Vision
190
Dancing At The Edge: Competence, Culture And Organisation In The 21st Century
191
Systems Thinking For Social Change
192
5th Discipline, The Art And Practice Of The Learning Organisation
193
The Big Five Of Living Systems
194
Three Horizons, H3uni
195
Open University - Guide To Diagramming
196
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies For Building A Learning Organisation
197
Guides To Systems Change Methodologies
198
Systems Thinking For Sustainability: Six Modules And Videos To Help Us See The World From Schumacher Institute
199
Systems Innovation
200
Schumacher Institute
201
The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms
202
Towards a governance of sustainability transitions
203
Marine Colaboration – A Values-based Approach
204
Smart CSOs – Effective Strategies For The Great Transition
205
Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
206
Resilience Alliance: introduction to Panarchy
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Introduction to the Panarchy model as a framework for philanthropy: Philanthropic Strategy Inspired by Resilience Thinking
208
Presencing Institute
209
Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges
210
Leading from the Emerging Future
211
Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
212
Social Change Labs Generon Fieldbook
213
How Change Happens
214
Think NPC Resource Hub
215
Designing System Change: Praveen Nahar
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Reos Partners System Change Projects
217
Sustainable Food Lab Global Network
218
How to Grow Distributed Leadership
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Dancing with Systems
220
Verso
221
Turtle Island Institute
222
Relational Systems Thinking
223
School of System Change
224
Systems Diagnosis, presentation from Rob Ricigliano for Investors in Change
225
Five Horizons of Systems Mastery
226
shiftN Academy
227
Skoll Centre Blog
228
Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation
229
Lankelly Chase
230
Systems Practice course
231
Impact Gaps Canvas (and Map the System - the global competition based on it)
232
Our Systems Practice course with +Acumen
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Institute for Strategic Clarity
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Design, facilitation, strategy development, capacity building
235
The School of Systems Change programme
236
Donella Meadows Levers
237
Stories of Change
238
Universidad del Medio Ambiente
239
H3uni
240
Systems Change Framework - Purposeful Engagement of Diverse Perspectives
241
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Emergent Strategy
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What roles and innovations can help to accelerate sustainable lifestyles?
244
An Outcomes Mindset for Systemic Impact
245
Systems Practice Mindset Video
246
Co-Impact at a Glance, Philanthropy for Systems Change
247
Co-Impact Handbook
248
CoCreative
249
Relational Systems Thinking
250
Four Stories of Systems Change
251
The Systems Studio blog
252
Living systems perespective — a summary
253
Digging Out of Philanthropy’s Entrenched Practices
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Boxing Future Health
255
A New Societal Contract for a New Era: Why it's time to rethink health systems
256
Disruption is Coming to Healthcare
257
Public Health 2030: A Scenario Exploration
258
COVID-19: A data challenge and a catalyst for new insights
259
Healthy Havenscourt Collaborative
260
BUILD Sherman Park
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Recruiting and Motivating Community Health Workers in Zambia
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Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization
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The sustainability of healthcare: Why aren't we talking about it?
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KhusiBaby Annual Report 2019-2020
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We’re Beating Systems Change to Death
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Hospitals of the future: 4 steps towards sustainability
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Transformative Innovation in Healthcare
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Air pollution from fossil fuels caused 8.7 million premature deaths in 2018, study finds
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A Guide to Facilitating Health Systems Change
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Ten Lessons from Covid for Stepping into the Decade of Transformation
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Nursing in 2021: Retaining the healthcare workforce when we need it most
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Boundless Roots brought together diverse, sustainable lifestyle practitioners to engage in a shared inquiry around how to bring about the radical changes in society we believe are needed.
From May 2019 to March 2021, the Boundless Roots Community, a global group of climate practitioners, has been exploring how we can radically shift the way in which we live in response to the climate crisis. We acknowledge the need for drastic changes if we are to meet the 1.5 degree challenge. But how do we actually do it?
Sharing working notes on decolonizing the future in the hopes that it contributes to other ongoing inquiries around power dynamics with regards to the way we think about and shape the future
We need feminist leadership - and system change strategies - today more than ever. The Gender Lab has led and collaborated on several initiatives in recent years that have provided fertile ground for growing insights about what feminist work and systems change practice can offer to each other; and this report sets out to share the key learning and insights that have emerged through this inquiry and through our work.
Everyday we deal with the unplanned and the unexpected - from a broken toaster to losing (or gaining) a major client. Our natural ability to improvise gets us through. But we feel as if we’re winging it, rather than acting with courage and conviction.
Covering some ways to increase your odds of success at dealing with both the internally- and externally-facing challenges of building a systems-change organization.
Exploring the rock and roll movement through the lens of system change, we can see that rather than a lone hero, the influences behind rock and roll – societal, technological and niche - were complex and surprising. We believe that if we can learn to ‘dance’ with the system around us, which is changing all the time, we have a great chance of transforming the world we live in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du1Sq_baYbI
Stories of Change
multi-level perspective
systems change intro
video
Forum for the Future
Glider
School of System Change
April 15, 2020
Complexity theorist and School of System Change contributor Jean Boulton shares her experience from a recent field trip to the Sonian Forest in Brussels, as part of the Basecamp course
Too much of our understanding of complexity is intellectual. There is very little that embodies what complexity philosopher Edgar Morin would term “lived complexity”.
A manual on collaborative innovation: a highly integral approach to change. It provides a way to align people around a powerful shared intent, connect the change system, understand the target system we are working to change, and to engage whole people in catalyzing that change in very tangible and practical ways.
Combining the contemporary idea of a circular economy with the worldviews preserved by indigenous people through generations could offer a path to a more prosperous global economy.
Ashoka joined forces with McKinsey & Company to conduct extensive interviews with some of Germany’s 17002 social entrepreneurs as well as their partners in the respective systems to answer these questions: so, how do social entrepreneurs manage to change systems? What stops them, and what motivates them? Just how much potential do their solutions really offer?
A project example from the Academy of Systems Change: From Fish Raising to Aquaculture and Overfishing
http://www.50in10.org/
50 in 10
aquaculture
project
Academy for Systems Change
April 13, 2017
Foundations, Families and Funds can play a very important role in helping to redirect capitalism toward a more fair and just application, while also finding the right social enterprises to support.
The ambition of Systems Changers is to enable frontline workers to contribute to and create systems change. To empower people to gain a sense of agency to influence the multiple systems they work within.
With the growing awareness and need to address complex challenges that the world faces we believe we need to rapidly grow the number of people who can think and act systemically, and implement radical change.
A simplified one-stop resource centre highlighting links to key tools documents, web sites, emerging insights to support a community of practice interested in advancing this field.
http://www.sigeneration.ca/home/labs/
social innovation
sustainablity transitions theory
website
resources
Frances Westley
Sam Laban
Social Innovation Generation (SiG)
June 27, 2016
This Guide to a Social Innovation Lab is offered as a resource to peers, colleagues, practitioners, leaders from all sectors, and concerned citizens – all who have and/or will participate in change-making processes
All collaborations need a strong, flexible backbone, holding it all together, channelling communication and letting the interesting bits get on with what they’re really good at.
Developing a systems mindset, identifying the right tool for the job, and paying attention to human dynamics can help leaders move from theory to action when facing complex social problems.
To achieve broad social impact, we need systemic solutions. This requires government to lead with an outcomes-focused approach that embraces data and technology, aligns financial incentives, learns from policy failures and successes, and acts on new knowledge about what works.
Mapping and identifying opportunites, building new platforms for collaboration and letting go of prevailing perspectives are all critical for accelerating change.
A Strategy for Systems Change sets out the foundations of our work: our story, our theory of change, our principles and our strategic model. It is not a manual, rather we see it as a guide and inspiration to support people creating systems change that can be adapted to their own contexts and circumstances.
The BPC Sustainability Project is a collaborative effort comprising retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and NGOs, including founding members Target and Walmart along with the now 16 other leading members, working together toward the goal of putting more sustainable beauty and personal products on retailers’ shelves.
Where should you start if you are faced with massive systemic challenges or want to cultivate a shift towards sustainability in global systems? Where are the leverage points for systemic change? This book provides examples of what organizations and companies like the Sustainable Shipping Initiative, WWF and Nike are doing, along with practical strategies and an overview of system change theory.
The really big sustainability challenges for your business can’t be solved by your business. But they can be solved by your business working in collaboration with others.
The Art of Freefall shows both beginning and experienced writers how to get the thinking mind to step aside, so that writing becomes truly creative - a vulnerable and open-hearted engagement with the moment.
This is the second part of a blog series on systems thinking. In part I, “Realizing the ultimate impact of community-based innovations,” I introduced the theory and core elements of systems thinking.
The Sustainable Food Lab (SFL) is a consortium of business, non-profit and public organizations working together to accelerate the shift toward sustainability in the mainstream food system.
This book focuses on what it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety of organizational and social positions, and considers the consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing change.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075GYFK25
action Inquiry
leadership
sustainability
book
Judi Marshall
Gill Coleman
Peter Reason
July 1, 2011
A lot of people talk about power. But very few really try to understand it. Yet, power affects everything we do – the decisions that control our lives; what emerges in the public agenda and what does not; even what information we have, what we know, and how we see ourselves as agents and actors.
This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a spirit level which we can hold up to compare different societies.
An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to bring together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to help you become one of those leaders.
The Cynefin Framework is central to Cognitive Edge methods and tools. It allows executives to see things from new viewpoints, assimilate complex concepts, and address real-world problems and opportunities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz366X0-8
cynefin
sense making
Tools and frameworks
video
Dave Snowden
CognitiveEdge
January 12, 2010
For six years, the RE-AMP network—comprising 125 nonpro!ts and funders across eight states in the U.S.’s upper Midwest—has been focused on just one audacious goal: reducing regional global warming emissions 80 percent (from 2005 levels) by 2050. And it’s working.
Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization is the essential resource for anyone embarking on a research project in their own organization or as part of a work placement programme whether in business, healthcare, government, education, social work or third sector organizations.
Systemic Action Research works with real social and organisational issues to uncover their complex dynamics, often revealing unexpected opportunities. This book shows how this process can be integrated, in any context, to the process of social and organisational development and change.
Systemic Action Research works with real social and organisational issues to uncover their complex dynamics, often revealing unexpected opportunities. This book shows how this process can be integrated, in any context, to the process of social and organisational development and change.
How can we make the governments on which we depend for our welfare and survival behave like servants rather than masters? This is the oldest question in politics. It has been grappled with, but never satisfactorily answered, for thousands of years. In much of the world states remain oppressive, secretive and violent.
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
“Action inquiry” is a fresh approach to learning leadership in the midst of action. This highly accessible process takes each of us beyond muddling through daily dilemmas to exercising transforming power at key moments and more timely action in general.
In this paper I explore how ideas of systemic thinking, drawn from the work of Gregory Bateson and others, influence my practice of first-person action research.
Each of the methodologies used as part of the Art of Hosting has a powerful question at its core. Crafting a good question is a challenge and creating a great one is an art. It’s worth spending time on our questions because they open the door to whatever comes next. Here’s some good reading on the Art of Powerful Questions…
http://www.artofhosting.org/what-is-aoh/methods/
Art of Hosting
methodology
document
methods
Art of Hosting
January 20, 2003
The injunction against discovering and asking questions is widespread in today’s family, educational, and corporate cultures. That’s unfortunate, because asking questions that matter is one of the primary ways that people have, starting in childhood, to engage their natural, self-organizing capacities for collaborative conversation, exploration, inquiry, and learning.
In this paper I explain what I mean by living life as inquiry, showing how I apply notions of inquiry as method to many areas of my professional and personal activities and how research ideas are generated and tested throughout my life space.
A tool for encouraging participation in positive cultural change - or for doing something different at your next party.
http://www.context.org/iclib/ic28/atkisson/
collaboration
human-centered design
methodology
innovation
tool
methods
Alan AtKisson
April 1, 1991
Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. Everett Rogers, a professor of communication studies, popularized the theory in his book Diffusion of Innovations; the book was first published in 1962, and is now in its fifth edition (2003).
#theBIGshift is Forum’s system innovation vision. We are working to solve the tricky challenges that block our path to a sustainable future. We want to shift entire systems, such as food and energy. We want to open up the conversation about system innovation and enable leading organisations to answer the question – how can I affect system level change?
Two maps designed to shine a light on the work of this group of pioneers of systems change. We offer these with the hypothesis that the field will be better able to organize itself if it can see itself more clearly. Our theory of change? A clearer picture leads to greater connectivity, connectivity leads to stronger networks, and accelerates the best initiatives we so badly need if we are to effectively shift systems.
http://www.sigeneration.ca/mapping-momentum/
social innovation
systems mapping
publication
Rachel Sinha, Tim Draimin
Rachel Sinha
Social Innovation Generation (SiG)
Bringing together ambitious maritime leaders to create a successful and sustainable shipping industry.
http://ssi2040.org/
The Sustainable Shipping Initiative
sustainability
case study
Initiative
website
case study
Sustainable Shipping Initiative
An interactive kumu map showcasing the frameworks of the field of systems change.
https://systemschangelab.kumu.io/system-change
Frameworks of the Field
Tools and frameworks
kumu
tool
School of System Change
The Protein Challenge 2040 is the first global coalition of its kind, aiming to tackle the question: How do we provide up to 10 billion people with enough protein in a way that is healthy, affordable and good for the planet?
Transforming Social Systems. We are a global community of individuals, organizations and networks who are deeply involved in developing living examples that show what is possible in creating social systems that foster biological, social, and economic well being.
https://www.academyforchange.org/
learning organisation
organisation
Academy for Systems Change
A journal practice to be used in the U-processGuided journaling leads participants through a self-reflective process following the different phases of the U. This practice allows participants to access deeper levels of self-knowledge, and to connect this knowledge to concrete actions.
The Learning Pathways Grid (LPG) is a visual template (see Figure 1) for a particular kind of conversation analysis. LPG analysis helps professionals discover links from cognition to action, to the effects of action and makes those links explicit; it then supports a pragmatic redesign of action.
A guide to Action Learning Sets, an approach that provides a structured way of working in small groups which can provide the discipline we often need to help us learn from what we do, and improve our practice as a result.
The purpose of this guide is to share lessons learned across multiple initiatives to offer organisations guidance and insight into how to collaborate successfully to create change.
A tool to help you consider the broad spectrum of people who will be touched by your solution.
http://www.designkit.org/methods/11
collaboration
human-centered design
design thinking
empathy
tool
guide
IDEO
The purpose of shadowing is to observe and absorb practical and intuitive knowledge from a colleague, customer, or an otherwise interesting person, and by doing so, gain a new perspective on your own work.
Practical tools to trigger & support social innovation
http://diytoolkit.org/tools/
collaboration
human-centered design
personas
empathy
tool
IDEO
Human-centered design is a practical, repeatable approach to arriving at innovative solutions. Think of these Methods as a step-by-step guide to unleashing your creativity, putting the people you serve at the center of your design process to come up with new answers to difficult problems.
https://www.designkit.org/methods#filter
collaboration
human-centered design
design thinking
empathy
tool
IDEO
A visual tool to help understand characteristics of personas
http://diytoolkit.org/tools/personas-2/
collaboration
human-centered design
personas
empathy
tool
IDEO
The purpose of a stakeholder interview is to see your work from the perspective of your stakeholders. It answers the questions: What do my stakeholders want from me? What do they need me for?
"We’ve curated a collection of resources from our classes and workshops for you to explore. Use these activities, tools, and how-tos as a starting point — we hope you’ll hack them for whatever challenge you’re working on."
https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources
tool
Hub
resources
Stanford D School
An introduction to Action Experiments: about trying out different ways of doing things, to see what effect this has.
Luma Institute has created a framework to help you choose the best tool for each step of the innovation process, based on the people you’re designing for and the complexity of the systems in which you operate.
https://hbr.org/2014/01/a-taxonomy-of-innovation
framework
innovation
blog
Harvard Business Review
Luma Institute
Stories about analogue ways of working.
https://blog.methodkit.com/
co-creation
tool
blog
Hub
MethodKit
Chapter from Donella Meadows book on intervening in systems.
This guide shares findings from the first phase of our Scaling Up Impact work, a collaboration between Forum for the Future and Shell Foundation, that has involved more than 150 organisations from around the world interested in having a greater impact on the world’s challenges.
A daring call to action, exposing the shocking reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and the future we face if we do not take action to stop global warming.
In this classic work that continues to inspire its many readers, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274230.Gaia
ecosystems
book
James Lovelock
What does it currently mean to ‘do good’ – or create social value – in the UK? How should this evolve in the decades to come? This paper seeks to ask some provocative questions of those of us who seek to do good, and contribute to the live debate already taking place about this, rather than provide a conclusive set of answers.
Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an "energy internet," just like we now create and share information online.
capitalism
sustainability
new economy
book
Jeremy Rifkin
At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future.
An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak'
https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/
anti-racism
diversity/equity
diverse perspectives
ways of knowing
book
podcast
Reni Eddo-Lodge
About Race podcast
Hailed as an "eco-bible" by Time magazine, E.F. Schumacher's riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against "bigger is better" industrialism, Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty, Paul Hawken's Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yunis's Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibben's Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth.
https://sacred-economics.com/
sacred economics
money
capitalism
new economy
book
website
Charles Eisenstein
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective.
Barber explores the evolution of American food from the 'first plate,' or industrially-produced, meat-heavy dishes, to the 'second plate' of grass-fed meat and organic greens, and says that both of these approaches are ultimately neither sustainable nor healthy. Instead, Barber proposes Americans should move to the 'third plate,' a cuisine rooted in seasonal productivity, natural livestock rhythms, whole-grains, and small portions of free-range meat
The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond Corporate America-teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers because the way we run schools and hospitals kills their vocation. Government agencies and nonprofits have a noble purpose, but working for these entities often feels soulless and lifeless just the same. All these organizations suffer from power games played at the top and powerlessness at lower levels, from infighting and bureaucracy, from endless meetings and a seemingly never-ending succession of change and cost-cutting programs.
https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
organisational development
teal
leadership
book
Web page
Frederic Laloux
February 10, 2014
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature.
Equal parts cultural analysis, political manifesto, memoir, and journalistic exposé, No Logo was the first book to put the new grassroots resistance to corporate manipulation into clear perspective. It vividly documents the invasive economic practices and damaging social effects of the ruthless corporatism that characterizes many of our powerful institutions. It tells a story of rebellious rage and self-determination in the face of our branded world, calling for a more just, sustainable economic model and a new kind of proactive internationalism. Naomi Klein’s historical analysis of the world we lived in the 1990s proves not only astonishingly prescient but more vital than ever.
https://naomiklein.org/no-logo/
capitalism
activism
movements
book
Naomi Klein
Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework.
The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson's piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions.
The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey - from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching.
We have all changed someone's life -- usually without even realizing it. In this funny talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other's lives.
Climate change is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. In this groundbreaking book, Alastair McIntosh summarises the science of what is happening to the planet – both globally and using Scotland as a local case study.
As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, governments are at long last beginning to question the very structure of the global economy. In this fresh, politically charged analysis, Jonathon Porritt wades in on the most pressing question of the 21st century: can capitalism, as the only real economic game in town, be retooled to deliver a sustainable future?
Is there no escape from an economy that devours nature in the name of endless growth? John Thackara’s answer is a rousing ‘yes, there is!’ Drawing on a lifetime of travel in search of real-world alternatives that work, he describes in this book how communities the world over are creating a replacement economy from the ground up.
In this talk from RSA Animate, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways it has shaped human development and society.
Our planet's future is too often described in terms of doom and despair. However, there is another perspective that is not only positive, but credible, too.
Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. In other words, to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials (from food and housing to healthcare and political voice), while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on Earth’s life-supporting systems, on which we fundamentally depend – such as a stable climate, fertile soils, and a protective ozone layer. The Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a playfully serious approach to framing that challenge, and it acts as a compass for human progress this century.
https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/
donought economics
economics
capitalism
book
website
Kate Raworth
This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right.
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that transform our understanding of how natural systems work, George Monbiot explores a new, positive environmentalism that shows how damaged ecosystems on land and at sea can be restored, and how this restoration can revitalize and enrich our lives.
In Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands-the wilderness of the mind-and Griffiths beautifully explores the language and symbolism that shape our experience of our own wildness.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301050.Wild
sustainability
autobiography
storytelling
worldview
book
Jay Griffiths
Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations, Eagleman guides us through the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, facial expressions, genocide, brain surgery, gut feelings, robotics, and the search for immortality. Strap in for a whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos. In the infinitely dense tangle of billions of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see in there: you.
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth.
https://thischangeseverything.org/book/
climate change
capitalism
eco-philosophy
politics
book
Naomi Klein
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, he juxtaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. In The Web of Life, Capra takes yet another giant step, setting forth a new scientific language to describe interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena--the "web of life."
After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings working on social, economic, and spiritual renewal, I feel that the opposite is true.
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. To investigate, Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to its equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the vibrant city of Ul Qoma. But this is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a seeing of the unseen. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune
fiction
book
Frank Herbert
IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road
fiction
book
Cormac McCarthy
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Mary Oliver was an “indefatigable guide to the natural world,” wrote Maxine Kumin in the Women’s Review of Books, “particularly to its lesser-known aspects.” Oliver’s poetry focused on the quiet of occurrences of nature: industrious hummingbirds, egrets, motionless ponds, “lean owls / hunkering with their lamp-eyes.” Kumin also noted that Oliver “stands quite comfortably on the margins of things, on the line between earth and sky, the thin membrane that separates human from what we loosely call animal.” Oliver’s poetry won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and a Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement. Reviewing Dream Work (1986) for the Nation, critic Alicia Ostriker numbered Oliver among America’s finest poets, as “visionary as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson.”
David Whyte is an internationally renowned poet and author, and a scintillating and moving speaker. Behind these talents lies a very physical attempt to give voice to the wellsprings of human identity, human striving and, most difficult of all, the possibilities for human happiness.
https://davidwhyte.com/
poetry
Poetry
book
The True Cost is a 2015 documentary film directed by Andrew Morgan that focuses on fast fashion. It discusses several aspects of the garment industry from production—mainly exploring the life of low-wage workers in developing countries—to its after-effects such as river and soil pollution, pesticide contamination, disease and death. Using an approach that looks at environmental, social and psychological aspects, it also examines consumerism and mass media, ultimately linking them to global capitalism. The documentary is a collage of several interviews with environmentalists, garment workers, factory owners, and people organizing fair trade companies or promoting sustainable clothing production.
https://truecostmovie.com/
fashion industry
supply chains
film
documentary
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country's mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation.
Stand-Up Comedy. In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of Latin history in an effort to help his bullied son.
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80225421
comedy
history
film
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio meets with scientists, activists and world leaders to discuss the dangers of climate change and possible solutions.
https://www.beforetheflood.com/
climate change
film
documentary
Leonardo DiCaprio
National Geographic
Why is Al Gore optimistic about climate change? In this spirited talk, Gore asks three powerful questions about the man-made forces threatening to destroy our planet -- and the solutions we're designing to combat them.
A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly from Vatican City. In a hopeful message to people of all faiths, to those who have power as well as those who don't, the spiritual leader provides illuminating commentary on the world as we currently find it and calls for equality, solidarity and tenderness to prevail.
Aa concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global.Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures.
This is a draft preview of Ray's presentation at the School of System Change. This is a working file and for reference only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btavDj-WKJA
video
Ray Ison
This is a draft preview of Jean's presentation at the School of System Change. This is a working file and for reference only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-qbAm_nV8
Complexity
worldview
video
Jean Boulton
This is a draft preview of Chris' presentation at the School of System Change. This is a working file and for reference only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMSOsZDkZME
transition management
transitions
futures
video
Chris Roorda
This is a draft preview of Marshall's presentation at the School of System Change. This is a working file and for reference only.
https://youtu.be/9T4bTp16wxM
systems mapping
video
Marshall Clemens
Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework.
In his 1969 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers looked ahead to the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world we inhabit today. He suggested that living in such a world would require a whole new set of competencies – demonstrated already by the ‘persons of tomorrow’ he saw around him even then. In Dancing at the Edge, Maureen O’Hara and Graham Leicester pick up the thread fifty years on. Drawing on extensive research and their own wide experience, they map the ‘powerful times’ in which we live, the 21st-century competencies required to thrive in this complexity and how to discover and develop them in practice.
Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation.
This is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.
Understanding how a diagram works and seeing someone else draw one is fair enough, but how about applying them to other real-life situations? As a bit of fun, we want to challenge you to consider when and where a diagram can be used, why you would use it and what you would expect to achieve.
Senge’s best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.
20 open-source guides for learning about Systems Innovation
https://systemsinnovation.io/guides/
systems innovation
intro
systems change intro
Hub
resources
guide
Systems Innovation
Free: During the six video tutorials (see links below), Martin Sandbrook will show you how to harness ‘Systems Learning’ to help you deal with complexity and uncertainty.
http://systemslearning.org/on-line-course/
sustainability
Learning opportunities
learning organisation
online course
video
Martin Sandbrook
Schumacher Institute
We are an e-Learning and collaborative platform on a mission to increase the capacity of individuals and organizations to do systems-level innovation.
https://www.systemsinnovation.io/course
learning organisation
systems thinking
organisation
Systems Innovation
Systems Learning aims to introduce you to a different way of thinking, freeing you to deal more effectively with complexity and uncertainty - we call this Systems Thinking.
https://systemslearning.org/
learning organisation
organisation
A research paper The multi-level perspective (MLP) has emerged as a fruitful middle-range framework for analysing socio-technical transitions to sustainability. TheMLPalso received constructive criticisms. This paper summarises seven criticisms, formulates responses to them, and translates these into suggestions for future research.
Policies for sustainability transitions necessarily have three main characteristics: they are prescriptive with regard to dynamic societal processes, linked to the normativity of sustainable development, and are able to interlink both the societal and the individual levels. Taking transition management as a starting point, the paper elaborates that it cannot well address the second and third characteristic. We therefore suggest complementing transition management approaches with the individualistic capability approach and the more structural practice theory.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/ufzdps/172013.html
multi-level perspective
sustainablity transitions theory
article
research
Exploring the values based approach that the Marine CoLABoration takes.
The Presencing Institute was founded in 2006 by MIT Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer and colleagues to create an action research platform at the intersection of science, consciousness, and profound social and organizational change. Over the past two decades, we have developed Theory U as a change framework and set of methodologies that have been used by thousands of organizations and communities worldwide to address our most pressing global challenges: climate change, food systems, inequality and exclusion, finance, healthcare and education.
https://www.presencing.org/
Theory U
sustainablity transitions theory
website
Presencing Institute
Building upon two decades of action research at MIT, the process shows how individuals, teams, organizations and large systems can build the essential leadership capacities needed to address the root causes of today’s social, environmental, and spiritual challenges. In essence, we show how to update the operating code in our societal systems through a shift in consciousness from ego-system to eco-system awareness.
https://www.presencing.org/aboutus/theory-u
Theory U
sustainablity transitions theory
book
Otto Scharmer
Presencing Institute
In Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer take us on a journey from our current age of disruption to finding individual and collective ways to lead from the future as it emerges. The journey flows along the curve of the “U”—the process of Theory U—a transformational process of observing, reflecting and acting. In this logical and deep exploration, the authors create an emerging framework for transforming institutions, society, relationships, and the self and outline a process we can use individually and collectively to get there. They address some of the most complex systemic problems facing society and show how individuals and groups operating at a new level of thinking are transforming institutions and themselves, resulting in new and innovative solutions that could define the 21st century.
The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems—either relying on violence and aggression or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise—are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches—power, the desire to achieve one’s purpose, and love, the urge to unite with others—are actually complementary. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put it, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” But how do you combine them?
This is a practical and interactive ebook that will guide you in creating and sustaining an effective social lab with passion, precision and purpose. It is packed with insights and experience from leading practitioners in the field. Inside you will find exercises, checklists, examples and tips.
https://social-labs.org/fieldbook/
Theory U
sustainablity transitions theory
use in strategy
publication
Social Labs
Economist Duncan Green, the author of From Poverty to Power, proposes a new path to change for activists, nonprofits and aid agencies. His “Power and Systems” approach can help advocates and development agencies engage more flexibly with communities in need of change. Green, a senior strategic adviser at Oxfam and a professor of International Development at the London School of Economics, addresses the theoretical underpinnings of his concept of change, examines how change affects institutions involved in aid or development work, considers the people who embrace activism and examines the implications of his approach to bringing about change.
Transformation is a process, not a destination. We help governments, companies, and civil society organisations worldwide make progress on their most important complex challenges, including—but not limited to—these six thematic areas.
https://reospartners.com/our-work/
case study
use in strategy
website
case study
REOS Partners
Building the know-how, tools and partnerships for sustainable food supply chains of the future.
https://sustainablefoodlab.org/
Sustainable Food Lab
food
use in strategy
website
case study
Sustainable Food Lab
Distributed leadership unlocks incredible potential for collaboration, autonomy, and networked organising. In this context, leadership isn’t about being on a higher level of a pyramid.
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature.
Turtle Island Institute (TII) is a global Indigenous social innovation think & do tank, a teaching lodge. Over the past couple of years TII has developed a uniquely Indigenous approach to deep systems awareness and transformation.
The shiftN Academy offers a varied program of courses to help you acquire skills in futures thinking, systems thinking, and personal effectiveness. Programs are offered independently or in cooperation with our trusted partners.
Lankelly Chase is an independent foundation working in partnership with people, across the UK, to change the systems that perpetuate severe and multiple disadvantage. Their mission is to get to a place where people want to, know how to and are free to create systems that are effective in responding to the interlocking nature of severe disadvantages such as homelessness, drug misuse, violence and abuse and mental ill health.
www.lankellychase.org.uk
Financial resources
mapping the field resource
resources
organisation
Lankelly Chase
This Systems Practice course is a way to make sense of complex environments and uncover the dynamics that have the greatest potential for impact. This course will lead you through each step of understanding a system, analyzing it to find points of leverage, and learning how to adapt in a changing environment. You will also gain access to a portfolio of step-by-step tools, processes, and mindsets to apply to your current and future work. This course is ideal for professionals working on complex problems across any field of social impact.
Systems Practice is a way to make sense of complex environments and uncover the dynamics that have the greatest potential for impact. This course will lead you through each step of understanding a system, analyzing it to find points of leverage, and learning how to adapt in a changing environment. You will also gain a portfolio of step-by-step tools, processes, and mindsets to apply to your current and future work.
ISC is a research and education non-profit organization, focused on developing participatory processes and systemic methodologies to address complex societal issues and realize individual’s highest aspirations for a greater social good.
https://isclarity.org/
consulting/advise services
Learning opportunities
mapping the field resource
systemic strategy approach
systemic impact
systems change
tool
organisation
Design, facilitation, strategy development, capacity building
https://www.evolutionlab.org/
consulting/advise services
mapping the field resource
needs updating
The School has three core learning offerings depending on the level of system change practice in your work. The School’s curriculum is underpinned by the five core capabilities needed for systems change.
https://www.forumforthefuture.org/courses
Learning opportunities
mapping the field resource
systemic impact
learning organisation
organisation
Forum for the Future
School of System Change
A dive into leverage points: these are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.
The School of System Change collaborated with foundations, academics, creatives and others to create the Stories of Change, a series of videos and tools for designing and delivering system change practices. In our development process for each story, we engaged a community of partners to transform these stories of change into multimedia videos and facilitated learning experiences.
A university in Mexico that promotes a regenerative, sustainable and ethical future, accompanying agents of change, capable of promoting initiatives that transform socio-environmental systems.
https://umamexico.com/
consulting/advise services
Learning opportunities
mapping the field resource
tool
organisation
H3Uni is an educational enterprise dedicated to empowering people to develop the practitioner skills necessary to facilitate regenerative responses to global issues impacting in their local communities and organisations.
https://www.h3uni.org/
mapping the field resource
three horizons
futures
website
resources
Hub
H3Uni
International Futures Forum
The Systems Change Framework has been developed as a sensemaking tool to support individuals and collaborations to become more familiar and capable of working in systems and towards systems change. It outlines a structure, process and set of practices which, when taken together, enable a systemic inquiry for systems change.
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html
diverse perspectives
indigenous thinking
social change
book
adrienne marie brown
March 22, 2017
We all have a role to play in designing healthy and affordable lifestyles for Europeans. Here’s an overview of the options: which are open to you?
To achieve broad social impact, we need systemic solutions. This requires government to lead with an outcomes-focused approach that embraces data and technology, aligns financial incentives, learns from policy failures and successes, and acts on new knowledge about what works.
COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION FOR SHARED PROSPERITY & SUSTAINABILITY
https://www.wearecocreative.com/
organisation
Blue Marble Eval group and Turtle Island: Relational Systems thinking with Melanie Goodchild and Terrellyn Fearn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FiK5TWRxE
relational systems thinking
indigenous thinking
video
webinar
Melanie Goodchild
Terrellyn Fearn
Turtle Island Institute
April 24, 2021
This is a post that tells four stories of The Children’s Society’s systems change work, three local, one national, to bring systems change out of theory and into practice for a service and organisational design audience (of course, many practitioners, policymakers and systems designers have always practiced systems change).
The healthcare ecosystem is demonstrating its ability to share data to uncover new insights for the benefit of all during the pandemic but there is more to be done, says Nigel Hughes, scientific director at Epidemiology, Janssen R&D.
A navigational tool for achieving zero emissions with climate resilience and health equity
https://healthcareclimateaction.org/roadmap
road map
Healthcare
climate change
decarbonization
health equity
Christa
publication
Health Care Without Harm
If the global healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter in the world — not great for a sector that promises 'to do no harm'. But a growing movement is emerging to decarbonise healthcare.
Hospitals for the sick have existed for centuries; places of refuge and healing that developed to become pillars of their local community. However, in today’s changing healthcare landscape, they are, in many ways, no longer sustainable and not ideally designed to address some of today’s most urgent healthcare needs.