Article 8: The CDE Model
The CDE Model helps us discern the deeper patterns in our systems. Although we can’t control outcomes, we can shape conditions so life-giving patterns are more likely to emerge.
Article 7: Pattern Spotting
This is the seventh article in my 8-week series exploring foundational systems thinking concepts, written for the 2025 RE-AMP Systems Thinking Academy. Whether you’re following along with the series or diving deep into systems practice, this article explores Pattern Spotting — a practice for noticing and sensing emerging patterns in Complex Adaptive Systems. Learn more…
Article 6: Attending to Our Attention
This is the sixth article in my 8-week series exploring foundational systems thinking concepts, written for the 2025 RE-AMP Systems Thinking Academy. Whether you’re following along with the series or diving deep into systems practice, this article explores Adaptive Action — a simple but profound rhythm for engaging with complexity. Learn more about the Academy…
Article 3: Complex Adaptive Systems: Patterns & Paradigms Naturally Shifting
Why do systems revert to old patterns even after successful change efforts? The answer lies in understanding human systems as Complex Adaptive Systems, where agents interact to create self-reinforcing patterns. Durable transformation requires reshaping deeper patterns of relationship, perception, and meaning—not just controlling surface behaviors.
Article 2: Systems Thinking and Paradigms: From Personal Shifts to Unleashing Systemic Shifts
Why does change feel so elusive, even when there’s abundant good will? The answer lies in shared paradigms—the invisible architectures of meaning that govern what we notice, ignore, and believe is possible. Discover why paradigm shifts are the most potent point of intervention for lasting systemic transformation
Article 1. Systems Thinking Starts in our Minds (Yes, Really!)
Why do we get stuck even when our hearts are in the right place? Systems thinking starts with understanding how our mental habits unconsciously reinforce the very patterns we want to change.
Amplifying Sameness & Damping Difference
Amplifying Sameness & Damping Difference Something that triggers me quite a lot is when people unconsciously (and sometimes intentionally) amplify sameness. It’s one of those harmless-seeming but insidious, nearly invisible, unconsciously destructive dynamics that’s way too prevalent in certain flavors of change-making cultures. What do I mean by ‘Amplifying Sameness’? For example: One person says…
How to Manage Archetypal Network Tensions – an Interview with Dylan Skybrook (Part 2):
Excerpt: A Leadership Story – Network Style – Part 2
June Holley on Collective Change and the Culture of the 21st Century
How place, process, relationships and tools support culture change for the 21st century – An interview with Network Weaving pioneer June Holley.
What Are We Signing Up For?
Practicing ‘Showing Up’ in new status-quo-disrupting ways is hard work. What could we do to make it less daunting & divisive?