2024-09-09
September 9 (the second Monday of the month) is the 124th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is on Zoom, with additional promotion on Eventbrite and on lu.ma.
Book Launch: Seeing: A Field Guide to the Patterns and Processes of Nature, Culture, and Consciousness
We're honoured to host an online launch for a new book to be released by the Maui Institute in Hawaii, on September 4, 2024.
From https://www.seeingfieldguide.com:
This introduction to systems science, also known as complexity science, awakens new perceptions and illuminates a universal way to observe and interact with everything. The science of atoms, stars, and ecosystems, of politics, economics, and technology, and of the Golden Rule, the Middle Way, and karma describes how all is using energy and information to organize into networks within networks, cycling and syncing, evolving and emerging.
Seeing, the first field guide to these patterns and processes, offers a world alive with change and possibility for ourselves, families, communities, technologies, and environment.
From the first chapter excerpted at https://mauiinstitute.substack.com/p/seeing-the-first-part-of-chapter:
Systems science observes the regularities—the patterns of interactivity—that organize all things and all activities.
This field guide models these regularities as systems processes. Examples are networks, feedback, boundary, bond, cycle, evolution, and more. Most of these systems processes can be modeled using simple computer applications.
Systems Processes Theory, the brainchild of evolutionary biologist and systems theorist Lenard Troncale, tells the story of how the regularities—the systems processes—interact to emerge as nature’s systems.
Seeing
... will be released on September 4, 2024
Lynn Rasmussen
... is a systems researcher/theorist bring the processes worldview to change thinking and views, living for 50 years on Maui Nui.
Laura Civitello
... joined a writing group 24 years ago, and became the Mystical Clown, to the role of Learned One that Lynn became.
Venue:
Pre-register and receive an email confirmation keyed to your email address and name at https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvd--gqzoiHNLXvQsYX_Rw74Uk7eyMEQJ8
We originally met in person at OCADU and may again do so on special occasions!
Suggested pre-reading:
Preview the first two sections of Chapter 1 "A World Hidden in Plain Sight" it https://mauiinstitute.substack.com/p/seeing-the-first-part-of-chapter
Read and/or subscribe to "The Maui Instituteʻs Ideas and Actions" newsletter at https://mauiinstitute.substack.com
Len Troncale has a long history of detailed presentation recordings.
Systems Education Workshop- Part 1 - Len Tronale (2019) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEUCXrKiVfY
Systems Education Part 2 from Len Troncale (2019) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UKcUqVvzzs
Agenda
Post-meeting artifacts
Bloggers are encouraged to write about their learning and experiences at the meeting. Links will be added to this page.