Abstracts and Biographies:
Practice skills
"Systemic Thinking" for conversations when
diverse views are present
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Deborah Lange and Catherine McMahon
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The goal of this workshop is to provide
participants with an opportunity to raise their awareness of their own thinking process
and the thinking process of others. It is intended that participants experience how to not
be too attached to an idea nor avoid an idea in the interest of generating deep
understanding and transformative solutions to address our needs. Systems thinking enables
people to hold the tensions between views that may be diametrically opposed. Systems
thinking enables people to consider economic, environmental, social and spiritual views
and the effects of decisions to different areas of the community or organisation or group.
This workshop will enable participants to experience one methodology to think
systemically, hold the tension and allow creative transformational thinking to emerge.
Participants will be guided in small groups to follow the process whilst engaging in a
conversation about a complex topic. |
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| Deborah Lange works collaboratively with organisations to
achieve cultural change and improved business outcomes in her business which has been
established for 11 years, Deborah Lange & Associates. She focuses on individual and
organisational learning as the means to effect change, and is gifted in creating an
environment of open enquiry and trust into which individuals or groups feel they can fully
contribute. Catherine McMahon’s career has focussed on developing public policy and
programs from a cross government perspective in the SA public sector. Catherine’s
experience includes executive management and policy roles in human services and economic
development. Catherine has extensive experience with non-profit organisations, and is an
accredited LEADR mediator and IAMA arbitrators. |
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