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Hi there! I’m Lizzy, and my work in Cynefin is all things health! Considering that I’m the biggest hypochondriac, this makes little sense to my friends and family. I started out by studying Psychology at university, which gave me a great foundation for exploring why people behave the way they do, and how our minds […]
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Currently preparing for a major event next week when I am due to deliver the sixth Annual Mike Jackson Lecture at the University of Hull.    I have a visiting chair in the Centre for Systems Studies whose goals are all about helping people design systemic solutions or systemic practices to the many complex problems […]
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In yesterday’s post I reminded readers of three key aspects of a complex adaptive system:  (i) it is necessary, but not sufficient, for there to be many elements;  (ii) rich, short-range interactions between those elements are necessary and probably sufficient; (iii) the elements are not aware of the whole, necessary but not sufficient.   That […]
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Over the last month or so I have been emphasising the need for lots of small projects, either focused on resolving immediate issues or changing the substrate, or energy gradient of the system.  I’ve also been reminding people of Nonaka’s famous dictum of change needing to be middle-bottom-up.  Indeed the last thing you want to be […]
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Back on St David’s day at the start of this month, Ben Taylor promoted a link to a post from Steve Schefer comparing my work with that of John Seddon.  It was interesting and given some current intersections with Seddon’s Vanguard Method, I thought I would write a response.  It’s also worth reading the exchange […]
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In yesterday’s post I provided a basic update on where Estuarine mapping is in terms of method.   I’d also strongly recommend people to read Tom Kerwin’s account of an Estuarine Mapping exercise we ran together a few weeks ago – not just for the account but also for what he did to integrate the […]
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The response patterns to our questions suggest that COVID was a chance to re-assess the relationship between the collective, the individual, and the world around us.  This relationship is crucial in climate change, where we continuously grapple with the ideas of action, motivation, and impact. To dig deeper, we will focus on how perceived impact […]
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It’s been my practice for some years to use St David’s Day as a chance to update the latest version of Cynefin.  Last year was no exception but in the second of two posts I indicated that 2023 would see this extend to other frameworks within the Cynefin ecosystem.  The reason was that with the […]
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I’m starting to hope that this blog is the start of something that will become a tradition. The climate change (nature, sustainability, biodiversity, take your pick) programme periodically releases an open collection. Such collections invite participation from absolutely anybody and offer the possibility of collecting targeted data and accessing them at no cost. The first […]
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