The world is boiling. That was the message I started my last blog post with in August 2023. I was just starting my new, yet undefined role, exploring sustainability at ISZL and IB innovation, and I was going to need to employ all my sense-making skills re-ignited by Nora Bateson‘s Warm Data training. The summer…
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A New Start in a Complex World
“Global Boiling”, that’s the era we’ve reached says UN Secretary General António Guterres in a July press conference. RIP Global Warming. Did you fly to a holiday destination this summer and struggle to breath due to the fires burning around you? Did you just get annoyed or did you feel the irony of the situation?…
I Can’t Breathe
It took about 8 minutes for George Floyd to die with a police officer kneeling on his neck. Over 20 times, he said, I can’t breathe. Imagining how this might have felt takes you to a very dark place but what is even darker is to remember all the black lives that have been lost…
Joined up Thinking
We are all guilty of thinking of problems in isolation. In joined up thinking, as an educator, I am proposing that we help students, and indeed educators, to see the big picture, to identify the links between components of the picture and to examine how they interact to form a system. Systems Thinking Systems thinking…
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