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A Toolbox for Systems Change

Better systems for a changed world; Powerful organizations for a desirable future

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Who’s in the room?

What problems are we solving?

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Permaculture

An ethical system

of design which re-integrates humans

with the natural world.

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Interlocking Problems

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Systems Thinking & Design

We live and move through all kinds of systems.

  • Edges = Patterns and structure shape the flow (material; agreement)
  • Flow of information/energy

Design = problem solving

What is the problem we are really trying to solve?

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Ethics/

Espoused Values

Principles/Patterns

Aims

Strategies

Techniques/Tools

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Places to intervene in the system

12. Constraints, parameters, numbers

  1. The power to transcend the paradigm

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Nature Connection:

Care of the Earth

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Sociocracy:

Tools for

Second and

Third Ethics

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Community Empowerment

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Where do we work? Stories from the front

Hopewell

Working with Children: Homeschooling Cooperatives; Harmony School

Bringing Permaculture to Your Community

4% - a tipping point?

REGION

self

household

neighborhood

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Questions?

Contact/ Resources