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Encountering unknowns and knowns - TB871 Block 1 (People)
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Getting familiar with the inevitability of unknowns in complex and messy situations within which we practice systemically.</p>

Novel Notes
May 21, 202510 min read
Systems and Strategies - TB871 Block 1 (Tools)
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Exploring how systems and strategies are related, and some of the different approaches and perspectives that bring them together.</p>

Novel Notes
May 21, 202512 min read
Using AI for my Systems Thinking studies
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">How I use AI for my postgraduate studies, and why it is so bad at bibliographies.</p>

Novel Notes
May 12, 20254 min read
Learning Systems for Improvement of Inclusive Practice
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I designed a learning system as part of my process of learning systems.</p>

Novel Notes
May 10, 202517 min read
Not managing change: My misbehaving brain - TB872 Part 03 Week 15-17
This blog post is a bit of a ramble and a rant. I discuss my current struggles as a student. If you would like to only read about the content of my studies, please go ahead to the next post, bearing in mind that my interpretations of that content were produced in the context outlined below. - Since completing my second tutor-marked assignment (TMA), I have lost steam a little, overwhelmed by university work in this final part of the TB872 module. I passed the TMA and was init

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Mar 1, 202511 min read
Systemic Inquiry towards a Learning System of Interest - TB872 Part 02 Week 13
In Part 2.5.1 ( Taking a design turn in your practice ) of the TB872 module for Managing Change with Systems Thinking in Practice , we further develop the 'learning contract' that we started working on in Part 1 of the module, amending it to conceptualise our current stage of learning and to demonstrate the 'design turn' we have taken in managing change in a situation of concern. The references in this post to Professor Ray Ison and the module material are either from TB872

Novel Notes
Feb 1, 202524 min read
Framing in Systemic Inquiries with the Juggler - TB872 Part 02 Week 11-12
While reading Systems Practice: How to Act (in situations of uncertainty and complexity in a climate-change world (Ison, 2017) to accompany my study of TB872 Managing Change with Systems Thinking in Practice , I am simultaneously developing my understanding of Systems Thinking concepts as described in the provided literature, and developing my Systems practice capability by learning how to apply Systems Thinking in practice (STiP). There are limitations to my ability to enga

Novel Notes
Jan 24, 202521 min read
Systems Practice: Being, Engaging, Contextualising, Managing - TB872 Part 2 Week 10
<p>Exploring the BECM heuristic and the Juggler isophor for understanding my past and present practice with Systems Thinking.</p>

Novel Notes
Jan 10, 202516 min read
Relational Dynamics, Values and Worldview Clashes - Exploring Systems Practice - TB872 Part 2 Week 8-9
<p>...The transition from ‘being’ systemic to ‘doing’ Systems encompasses all the ‘balls’ juggled by an aware systems practitioner—Being, Engaging, Contextualising, Managing.</p>

Novel Notes
Jan 4, 202521 min read
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