Making Sense of Complexity

The Cynefin Company helps organisations make sense of a complex world so that they can act and create positive change.

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Premium Membership - The Cynefin CO

Join our global community of Cynefin® and SenseMaker® practitioners. Gain insights from experts, access quality content, and connect with complexity practitioners worldwide. As a Premium Member, enjoy discounts on various learning products.

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TRAINING & LEARNING

Training and Learning with The Cynefin Company focuses on Complexity theory-informed practices. We offer various development pathways for Organisations and individuals through facilitated events (virtual and in-person), together with online self-paced learning products and mentoring journeys.

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Hexi method packs kits

As part of our effort to rewild The Cynefin Company with the move away from the Cognitive Edge name, we have started focusing on our methods. We have spent much of our focus this year on producing and testing our Hexi facilitation kits. 

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UPCOMING TRAINING & EVENTS

The Cynefin Co hosts a range of events, including members-only and public meetups, training and learning programmes and partner events. Please check back often or follow us on social media to see the latest upcoming opportunities to engage and connect.

Registration for upcoming Cynefin BaseCamp

For those who are well-read in the subject but want to refresh their knowledge, this course offers an opportunity to engage with others and learn about Cynefin practices in today’s context. Virtual Cynefin® Basecamp is an immersive experience of complexity, introducing participants to the application of the Cynefin framework and its tools and methods through first-person participation.

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Cynefin learning course

Cynefin® Framework online Beginner’s Course: 3 modules

Learn at your own pace in a self-paced environment, with practical insights and a sense of peace of mind. In this course, we provide 3 modules together.

By completing this learning module, you will be able to gain a better understanding of the qualities and dynamic nature of each domain, identify potential risks in how your organisation, team, or unit is being managed or operates, and develop more legitimate and effective ways of managing within each domain.

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Cynefin Combined BaseCamp Training

Our Combined BaseCamp offering is intended as fast-track, comprehensive introduction into the world of the Cynefin Co’s core frameworks, methods and tools. This BaseCamp covers the core Cynefin Co Methods and theory across two key streams – Narrative methods and SenseMaker, Complexity and Cynefin methods. Additionally, we provide a basic introduction to Estuarine Mapping.

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ANTHRO-COMPLEXITY

We are the pioneer of the field of complexity, charting the way before complexity became mainstream. We created the concepts of Naturalising Sense-making, Distributed Ethnography, Flexuous curves (formerly Apex Predator theory), and have developed the whole field now known as Anthro-complexity: complexity as experienced in human systems.

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Health & Care: making sense of the landscape

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Education

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Climate Change

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Citizens Engagement & Democratic Innovation

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Cynefin® Knowledge Management

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International Development & Human Rights

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CultureSense

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Perspectives on AI

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SenseMaker® - A Pioneering Software For Narrative Research

SenseMaker® is a pioneering method for gathering qualitative and quantitative data about people’s observations and experiences. What’s remarkable is that participants analyse their own responses. This way, we obtain authentic human analyses of real experiences instead of external interpretations. Results are presented using simple graphics that make it easy to identify patterns and themes. This perspective can reveal insights we might have ordinarily missed or perhaps not even looked for. The result? We can understand what’s really happening and determine the next steps or actions.

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WHAT'S NEW AT CYNEFIN - OUR THINKING

Waymaking: opening some new pathways
It’s been a long time since my last post, longer than I would like, but I’ve been heavily committed to a series of book chapters that expand on the EU Field Guide.  Those chapters are not yet all available to the broader public (see summary below), but the team is currently extracting material to provide an […]
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The Good, the Bad & the System We’re In (Part 1)
Creating Resilience: Why Navigating Complexity Needs Connection Not Correction. A set of reflections inspired by a Cynefin Retreat. I’m often brought into organisations to help tackle complex problems. One of the most common — and most deceptively complex — is this: What should our organisation look like to deliver our strategy? Closely followed by: What […]
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Mixed methods research, SenseMaker and Complexity: Entangling  Qualitative and Quantitative inquiry
Mixed methods research integrates qualitative and quantitative data to provide a more comprehensive understanding of complex phenomena. This approach is particularly valuable in understanding social phenomena, organisational research and development, and policy studies, where relying on a single method may fail to capture the full depth of human experiences and systemic interactions (Creswell & Plano […]
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A DEEPER CONNECTION

Engage with us. Join the ever-growing community around the world. Learn something from us, so that we, in turn, can learn something from you. Make sense of complexity, so that you can act accordingly, and navigate uncertainty.
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About the Cynefin Company

Founded in 2005 The Cynefin Company is a pioneering research and strategy business.
Helping leaders in society, government and industry make sense of a complex world,
so that they can act and create positive change.
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