Ahead of our upcoming training with The Cynefin Company, this panel will open up a conversation on how complexity science can help us navigate today’s intractable challenges.
Complexity invites us to pay attention to interconnection, uncertainty, and emergence — and reminds us that our identities, beliefs, hopes, and fears are anything but “soft.” They are central to how we act in the world.
Together with our panel, we’ll explore how story and narrative shape our sense-making, not just as tools for understanding but as catalysts for imagination, extending our vision into possibilities that lie beyond the immediate and into the “more-than-human” world. This discussion will set the stage for the training, offering a taste of how complexity thinking can guide practical action and deepen our appreciation that, in a complex system, no agent is without importance.
More information will be announced soon.
Details
Date and time: December 26, 6.30-8.30PM GMT (check your local time)
Tickets
Regular: £15,-
Concession: £10,- (for people on low income who can otherwise not afford to join the event)
Speakers
Dave Snowden
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Company, Dave Snowden is the creator of the Cynefin framework and SenseMaker®. A leading voice in complexity science and knowledge management, he works globally with governments, businesses, and organisations on decision-making, strategy, and change.
Eleanor Snowden
Eleanor Snowden is a Senior Research Consultant at The Cynefin Company, specialising in health and care. With a background in medical anthropology, she uses narrative, SenseMaker®, and complex facilitation to explore patient journeys, workforce experience, and leadership.
Anna Panagiotou
Anna Panagiotou is a researcher at The Cynefin Company, working on programmes in climate, education, and health. Trained in archaeology (PhD, UCL), she brings interdisciplinary insight to complexity and sense-making practice.
Upcoming training
Early next year, Eleanor Snowden and Anna Panagiotou will host a training with the Centre for Climate Psychology that dives deeper into complexity, story, and sense-making.
This light-weight training draws from complexity science and human knowledge to explore the theory and practice of working actively, on the ground, in the moment, with intractable problems.
Complexity science has a lot to teach us about interconnected, dynamic, uncertain environments and the questions that have no single answers. When it comes to us humans, complexity science recognises the importance of our connections, identities, beliefs, attitudes, hopes, fears and dreams. There is nothing “soft” about these things – we ignore them at our risk. So in this training, as we look at how we make sense of the world in order to act in it, story and narrative will be core, both as a way of understanding and sense-making and as an activator of creative imaginations that take us beyond what we see around us and into the "more-than-human" realms.
This kind of sense-making necessarily includes practice and action, so in our sessions, we will look at the doing-in-the-world as part of being in the world, supported by the realisation that, in a complex system, no agent is without importance.
Express your interest in the training by joining the waitlist below.