Center for Systems Awareness
The Center for Systems Awareness is a global group of changemakers, based primarily in Boston, which puts together workshops, events, and curriculums to help systems transformation.
Vision
The Center for Systems Awareness exists to advance systems change in education based on the idea that profound inter-connectedness sits behind all these ideas and connects them.
Core values
The Center for Systems change adopts and uses the 'mandala for systems change', outlined below with the following four questions:
- What are we seeking to accomplish? (Practice)
- What are we seeking to learn, especially that can benefit others beyond ourselves? (Research)
- How do we need to learn and grow, individually and collectively, to be successful? (Capacity building)
- Who is the āweāand what is the quality of the relational space we create? (Community building)
Program
Ā A strong emphasis on capacity building to support learning and development for very diverse groups of people to become compassionate systems practitioners and leaders. Ā
Practices
- Working with mental modelsĀ
- Fostering generative social fields
- Core leadership capacities: aspiration, reflective conversation, systems awareness
- Science of well-being and systems awareness mandala
- Reflecting on interconnection: ladder of inference and the ladder of connectedness
- Reflective practices to move forward with