“It’s not possible to let love and care flow freely and sustainably to others, or to engage—from the level of one’s very being—in equitable, love-based system change if there are…
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We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.To tackle complex challenges, we know we need to go from disjointed isolated responses, to coordinated multi-point strategies – or from…
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Alive & Learning is a podcast about what’s arising at the intersections of Impact Networks, Systems Change, Futures & ForesightIn 2024, Circle Generation, School of Systems Change, and School of…
Continue ReadingUnraveling, Dis-Integration, and Fluttery Feelings: The Lesser Told Parts of the “Transformation Story”
As I’ve been coming more and more into “the second half of life,“ I have found that I pay more attention, or perhaps I pay attention differently and to different things. One particular area…
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A Kumu use case by Maria Balcazar Tellez & Alexis Rife of Meridian Institute.Nothing gets us more excited than seeing the endless number of ways in which our customers are…
Continue ReadingDesign Foundations For Systems Capital
Designing an investment approach that fosters systems innovation and transformationThis piece was published in August 2022 in partnership with Hatched and reflects our thinking at this time.What would it look like to…
Continue ReadingUncolonizing the workplace using Indigenous Kinship building practices
As the late evening sun continued to shine on the mountains, our plane landed on the homelands of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, known very…
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This piece is the first article in the Care series, a collaboration between System sanctuary and Turtle Island InstituteCare is a theme that has come up over and over again…
Continue ReadingThe A to Z of Systems Thinking: A for AND
I loved Algebra at school. In particular, I loved arithmetic sequences, and practiced them so much that it became easy for me to see a group of numbers and extract a…
Continue ReadingOn Relational Infrastructure
Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change.When Suzanne Simard brought to mainstream attention the knowledge of vast underground mycorrhizal networks (which connect trees, grasses and other…
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