Tag Archives: systems thinking

05/31 – The Assessment and Development of Analytical and Systems Thinking Skills in the Work Environment

Feature Articles / May 2018

Maretha Prinsloo & Riana Prinsloo

Introduction

Human survival is premised on the capacity to continuously ascribe meaning to stimuli and acting on these perspectives in order to achieve certain goals. This involves a full range of integrated cognitive processes referred to as, inter alia, thinking skills, intellectual functioning, reasoning, problem solving, perceptual frameworks, creativity and judgement.

Cognitive functioning is by no means a static “entity”: it is highly dynamic and can be influenced by a …

11/30 – How Roy Bhaskar Expanded and Deepened the Notion of Adult Cognitive Development: A Succinct History of the DialecticalThought Form Framework (DTF)

Feature Articles / August-November 2016

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Otto Laske

“The major problems in the world (today) are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” – Gregory Bateson

“Logic merely defines how the world must be if we are to successfully apply certain techniques.” – Roy Bhaskar

This article explains in the most simple terms possible how Roy Bhaskar, in his book on Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom (1993), simultaneously deepened and expanded the notion of adult …

Tim Winton’s Pattern Dynamics™ Workshops in USA and Canada, January/February 2013

Notes from the Field / March 2013

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David MacLeod, Trevor Malkinson, Alia Aurami, and Marilyn Hamilton

There was an evening workshop in Bellingham, WA, USA, the evening of January 29, 2013, and a one-day workshop in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on February 2, 2013.

Notes from David MacLeod on the Bellingham Workshop

PatternDynamics ™ is the brainchild of Tim Winton, who developed the concept over a period of 20 years working in sustainability. His background is in Permaculture, Integral Theory, and Natural Systems Design. …