Recording available: Untangling Complex Challenges: Four Habits of Systems Thinking in Action

This interactive webinar, in collaboration with Waters Center for Systems Thinking, dove into four of the most important ways in which systems thinkers seek to better understand and act upon complex challenges. Through examples, mental exercises and discussions, we cultivated an intuitive and experiential sense of how adopting these Habits opens up new perspectives, broadens our view of the challenge and allows us to think of more comprehensive solutions.

Systems Thinking is a:

  • way of seeing the world that recognizes the intricate interconnections and dynamics that make systems (especially living ones) behave in such interesting and often unpredictable ways.

  • set of very practical tools and approaches to understand challenges on a deeper level and become better problem solvers.

  • language that allows us to communicate about complex challenges in a way that fosters collaborative problem solving and joint understanding.

In this 1-hour session, we gave participants a taste of what mental habits you can adopt to become a systems thinker and how this can make you a better problem solver.

When: Tuesday, February 18, 18:00 CET / 10:00 MST

Where: Zoom (find the recording below)

Session Hosts:

DaNel has been a professional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educator for two decades. She started her career as a middle and high school physics teacher and then served two years as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow with the U.S. Department of Energy. Before joining the Waters Center for Systems Thinking team in September 2022, she worked as the Director of The STEMAZing Project at the Pima County School Superintendent's Office where she helped educators better engage students to make sense of the world using 3-dimensional science instruction.

DaNel Hogan

Chief Learning Officer @ Waters Center for Systems Thinking

Recording

Ram also started his career in physics, among other things in the domain of nonlinear chaotic systems. He moved from academic research into tech entrepreneurship and later into IBM corporation. Throughout the science & technology part of his career, he became more and more interested in how this progress interacts with social, economic and environmental systems and how it produces the global challenges we're experiencing now. He founded Bright3r in 2020 in order to foster better sensemaking and form pathways of development that would lead to authentic, holistic betterment of our global civilization.

Ram Dušić Hren

CEO @ Bright3r