Making Sense of Complexity

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

Prevailing Currents

Learning & training, current events, trending publications and all kinds of interesting new things like programmes and webinars are at the top of our minds right now. Have a look.

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Cynefin Retreat March 2024

Cynefin EU Retreat 2025: Mind, Body, World

Our next Cynefin Retreat goes to Eryri - also known as Snowdonia. In addition to it being Wales’ largest Natural Park, we selected Eryri because it is a place of our own multiple belongings – which is central to this year’s theme of how the mind, the body, and the world interact and shape one another.

This retreat is the first in a series that will continue across the year 2025 as a wider programme, stretching not just in the Retreat space itself but through webinars, seminars, and related events.

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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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THE CYNEFIN CO. UPCOMING EVENTS

The Cynefin Co hosts a range of events including Masterclasses, Advanced Training, Retreat, Members & Public meetups,  and Partner events. 
TRAINING & LEARNING

Training and Learning with The Cynefin Company focus 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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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.

WHAT'S NEW AT CYNEFIN - OUR THINKING

TWELFETIDE 24:09 The endless cycle of idea and action
The general theme of this series has focused on the nature of information, or more accurately, the processing of being informed.  In the OED, the various definitions of information include the imparting of knowledge and, more specifically, the shaping of the mind and character, communication of facts, intelligence, a mathematical quantity “divorced from any concept […]
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TWELFETIDE 24:08 taking stock
So I’m two-thirds of the way through this series, and it’s time to take stock.  The goal was to pick up and develop the Bateson concept of the difference that makes a difference, but that was, at best, a sense of direction.  I have had everything planned out in previous years, and while I did […]
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TWELFETIDE 24:07 in the flesh
I want to continue with my marketing to Yale Graduates theme from yesterday.   One of the characteristics of activists is that, with a few exceptions, they tend to view that, given the right opportunities, everyone wants to be like them.  I reference my Mrs E M C Davies story here, a formative experience at […]
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About the Cynefin Company

The Cynefin Company (formerly known as Cognitive Edge) was founded in 2005 by Dave Snowden. We believe in praxis and focus on building methods, tools and capability that apply the wisdom from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems. We are the world leader in developing management approaches (in society, government and industry) that empower organisations to absorb uncertainty, detect weak signals to enable sense-making in complex systems, act on the rich data, create resilience and, ultimately, thrive in a complex world.
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