A Masterclass with ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 & Beth Smith – Malmö; #Sweden September 10, 2024. A focus on rewilding #leadership & organisations #complexity theory beyond Cynefin framework, the new Estuarine mapping framework & much more. Registration & more details here: hubs.la/Q02JRP_z0

Commendable article by ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺, outlining a complex systems approach to futures thinking. I read a few of the earlier drafts, and am happy to read the final one again. elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/…

No Robert you do not get to go on national broadcasters and say one thing and try and pretend you said something else after! If you genuinely feel your comments on Sky News were inappropriate, offensive, incendiary and anti Muslim ( which they were) then start by apologising

I'm pleased to say that I am back with one of my favourite groups - the Stoa, this time to challenge the idea of mental models, and I will be updating the Agency/Assemblage/Affordance work. The discussions with this group are always illuminating so I strongly recommend booking

Leaving Pretoria for a (hopefully) relaxed weekend in Franschhoek

A new event at the Faculty of STEM, The Open University will look specifically at creating a resilient organisation - able to handle the unknowable unknowns business-school.open.ac.uk/events/busines…. .

Re-reading Varela’s ‘Ethical Know-how’ a few decades old but as fresh on a second reading as the first

Returning to my series on patterns - this time on narrative thecynefin.co/the-patterns-o…

12th and 13th September potentially free Copenhagen/Malmo area if anyone wants the time

Continuing the theme of patterns in a new post, 'Narrative, numbers and narcissism' which brings together data and narrative for meaningful sense-making thecynefin.co/narrative-numb…

"7,950x the pay of the median Starbucks employee" ... I can understand the 10x developer, even the 100x (in exceptional circumstances) but I do not believe that any human under any circumstances can justify 7,950x. That's greed gone mad ->

For the last ten years, I have been a loyal customer of Hotels.com, but I may be about to leave them permanently. The old loyalty scheme gave one free night for every ten at the average rate paid. The new one gives you a couple of quid per stay. So at a £60 average) it will

We're looking to bring a full Masterclass to the West Coast (Bay Area or Seattle) November 13-15 this year - looking for someone to provide a venue and will barter place :-)

How the world ends ->

As through a glass darkly: a complex systems approach to futures ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 chapter in the "Handbook of Futures Studies", edited by Roberto Poli is now open! 👉 hubs.la/Q02N3Zk50 We will host a meetup on "Futures, Foresight, & #Cynefin". Stay touch 👉 hubs.la/Q02N3Zt80

I suppose it was to be expected. I complain about the new Hotels.com loyalty scheme which trebles the bookings I will have to make to get a free night, it takes over a week for them to send me a standard marketing spiel which doesn’t even reply to the point I made. So

🗓 2 Oct 2024 - 4 Oct 2024 📍: Portugal Join ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺, #Cynefin & our Eagles—Dr. Mary Condren, director of WomanSpiritIreland & Mari Fitzduff, a global #leader in conflict resolution and neuroscience. 🌟 Early Bird: Pay by 3 September and get 10% off! 👉 hubs.la/Q02Ngh7-0

Complex travel coming up but 31st October to 5th/6th November free for engagements Canada/USA if anyone is interested And yes I do know about the election

All Welsh primary school pupils can now get #FreeSchoolMeals 🙌 We've ensured every child in primary school in Wales gets at least one free nutritious meal a day so they can focus on learning and having fun. And we're proud to be the first UK nation to do so.

Loving this new term. Sanewashing.