{"id":43605,"date":"2019-02-07T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43605"},"modified":"2019-02-07T07:43:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:43:44","slug":"qualitative-systems-thinking-as-a-reflexive-futures-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43605","title":{"rendered":"Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Four Modes of Foresight (graphic from page 32 of review copy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures\u00a0practice<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Advanced praise for Anthony Hodgson\u2019s forthcoming new\u00a0book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have the pleasure and the privilege to count Tony as a friend, a mentor and a colleague for more than a decade now. We connected over a UNITAR sustainability workshop in Scotland that I co-organized and facilitated which his wife attended. Their company name\u2014 Decision Integrity Ltd<\/a>\u200a\u2014\u200asparked my curiosity. I did a bit of research and was amazed by the many parallels and connections I found to other key mentors of mine like Brian Goodwin and Henri Bortoft. Our first conversation was a four hour mind-melt at the end of which both of us were exhilarated and surprised at how time had past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony invited me into the International Futures Forum<\/a> in 2009. He gave me an opportunity to work with him in piloting early versions of the IFF World Game. In 2010 he hired me through his consultancy to do research and apply whole systems thinking and the IFF World Systems Model to two UK Foresight projects. In one of them we mapped the international dimension of climate change impact on 17 regions of the globe<\/a> and how these would in turn affect the future of the UK<\/a>. For the other, we tried to reveal systemic patterns and make visual sense out of the research a team of experts had done on migration and global environmental change<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony and I have also taught a three part workshop series on \u2018Applied Systems Thinking\u2019 together at Findhorn College, collaborated in various International Futures Forum project on \u2018Transformative Resilience<\/a>\u2019, \u2018The\u00a03 Horizons<\/a>Framework\u2019, and \u2018Second Order Science and Policy<\/a>\u2019; and occasionally I joined a meeting or support efforts towards the creation of\u00a0H3uni<\/a>. In short, I have been richly gifted opportunities to learn from this remarkable wise elder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Qualitative systems thinking as a reflexive futures\u00a0practice Advanced praise for Anthony Hodgson\u2019s forthcoming new\u00a0book I have the pleasure and the privilege to count Tony as a friend, a mentor and a colleague for more than a decade now. We connected over a UNITAR sustainability workshop in Scotland that I co-organized and facilitated which his wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24337,15669,14273,778],"class_list":["post-43605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-anthony-hodgson","tag-daniel-christian-wahl","tag-medium","tag-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43606,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions\/43606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}