Pacing Changes: Elevating the when+where in living systems

At the post-meeting dinner after the February Systems Thinking Ontario session, Anna Chekhman mentioned that she was teaching a third-year course on Designing Future Systems at York University. I offered to give a lecture, and we set a date for a few weeks later.

The CSRP Institute 2024 Banathy Conversation validated that the Systems Changes philosophy and theory developed since 2019 is comprehensive for Ph.D. and master’s level audiences. For less academic audiences, the label of “Pacing Changes” may be more appealing. This direction is compatible with the human systems orientation of…