This blog is prompted by a conversation I was in the other day with other Open University Applied Systems Thinking in Practice colleagues.
The conversation triggered three related but not yet integrated streams of thought – just want to get them down so I can crystalise them enough to reflect on them. Continue reading
I have just watched a number of really interesting videos presented by David White at the University of Oxford on a framework that helps understand the way in which people engage with the internet called the Visitors and Residents framework.
This blog isn’t to explain that framework as David White does that brilliantly in the videos (do watch them – there are links below) but to try to record some thoughts and tangents that they inspired based on the distinctions introduced in the video. Continue reading
People have a variety of different experiences that lead them to take up the formal study of systems thinking in practice. They also have different imagined trajectories moving forward. This is one of the aspects of diversity that makes it so interesting to teach and learn systems thinking in practice. But it can also be a bit of a challenge, not just for those with formal teaching responsibilities and for all of us who are learning with, and from, others in a community of systems practitioners. How do we all act and interact in a way that accommodates and facilitates different ‘inward’ and potential ‘onward’ trajectories? Continue reading