Navigating Complexity- Eye For A Route
To the novice climber finding a way through the chaotic tumble of buttresses and gullies seems impossible. The lines seem hard to pick from a distance and just disappear once you are amongst the rocks
Tag: systems thinking
Feeling Fractals
By John Atkinson One of the things you notice when you work with human systems is that things keep recurring in the same way at different levels. For example, you notice that a difficult relationship
The Nature of Scale
As more people join, the levels of complexity grow both in terms of who ‘we’ are and how we relate to the rest of the world. By the time it has become a global corporation
Fritjof Capra- The Systems View of Life (video)
Here's a short clip from Fritjof Capra introducing the concept of systems thinking and living systems, from the point of view of sustainability and ecology. Capra suggests that the most appropriate framework for developing ecological communities
Bateson: An introduction
Gregory Bateson was one of the key thinkers in developing ways of seeing the world as a connected whole, challenging more traditional patterns of understanding that segregated the world into separate boxes.