Systems Thinking Workshop Resources

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3	Beginners Guide to Systems Thinking	Podcast	IDEO U	Human-centered systems thinking
4	One from Many	Book	Dee Hock	A riveting inside story of the creation of VISA
5	Leadership and the New Science	Book	Margaret Wheatley	Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives; Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our times. We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities.
6	A Simpler Way	Book	Margaret Wheatley	Margaret Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the primary question, "How could we organize human endeavor if we developed different understandings of how life organizes itself?"
7	Who Do We Choose to Be	Book	Margaret Wheatley	In a world we cannot recognize, how do we find a way forward? In this world we do not understand, how do we know what to do? When so little is comprehensible, what is meaningful work? What is genuine contribution?
8	The Web of Life	Book	Fritjof Capra	Capra offers a brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social systems, and ecosystems.
9	The Systems View of Life	Book	Fritjof Capra	This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution.
10	Thinking In Systems	Book	Donella Meadows	Meadows' newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global.
11	Governing the Commons	Book	Elinor Ostrom	After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved.
12	The Future of the Commons	Book	Elinor Ostrom	This short book provides a brief introduction to the work of the late Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate in economics. Her work is of vital importance in understanding how we can manage difficult environmental problems without top-down government regulation.
13	Elinor Ostrom:Pioneer in the Interdisciplinary Science of Coupled Social Ecological Systems	Article	John Anderies	Reflection of Elinor Ostrom's work
14	The Unschool	Online school with courses, programs, and certificates		A global experimental knowledge lab for creative rebels and change agents who want to activate their agency and help redesign the world so THAT it works better for all of us.
15	What happens when we consider ourselves part of nature	Youtube Video	Leroy Little Bear	Indigenous perspective.
16	Environment and Sustainability	Youtube Video	Leroy Little Bear	Background on how we got here from an indigenous perspective.
17	Systems Thinking: From Rhetoric to Action	Web page	Theo Hacking	Systems thinking myths
18	Systems thinking for Social Change	Book	David Peter Stroh	A guide for applying systems thinking to social problems.
19	A Lifetime of Systems Thinking	Online Article	Russell Ackoff	Russell Ackoff shares his revelations.
20	The Systems Thinker	Webpage		Lots of resources
21	First Nations Systems Thinking
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