COMPLEXITY WORKS FOR COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
Whether you are interested in better understanding how to think about and apply principles of complexity
in your work or you have a project that would benefit from seeking different perspectives and approaches.
Plexus Institute has the community, resources and programs to help you.
Sharing relevant knowledge and insights, from formal and informal conversations to the publication of research, papers and stories focused on applied principles of complexity across the professional, scientific and academic fields, encourages learning about complexity.
At Plexus Institute engaging with complexity often begins with inquiry and conversation. Our current and archived conversations, podcasts, content and activities link “real life” experiences to the understanding, advancement and diffusion of ideas and practices rooted in the principles of complexity.
INSPIRED BY EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION
Plexus has a track record of setting the conditions to foster new ideas, connections and experiments that build on diverse perspectives in applying principles of complexity to everyday work environments. Network members and Partners, continue to explore and find opportunities to design and pilot new concepts, models, applications, tools and programs.
CURRENT POSTS
If Our Senses Lie, Who Knows What’s True?
If Our Senses Lie, Who Knows What's True? Can We Recognize Reality, and Would it Help? If you tend to think [...]
Literacy, Complexity, and Community
Literacy, Complexity, and Community Jose L. Cruz and Mark Narkus Kramer will explore how community programs are a critical connector [...]
A Personal Journey to Complexity Thinking – Part 3
A Personal Journey to Complexity Thinking - Part 3 Over the past twenty years Plexus Institute has provided a network [...]
CURRENT PODCASTS
Catalyzing Conversations Podcast
ComPlexus Podcast
Nursing Science & Complexity Podcast
Editors Selection From the Archives
COMPLEXITY IN PRACTICE
ADAPTIVE POSITIVE DEVIANCE
Adaptive Positive Deviance (APD) focuses on enabling communities and organizations to discover their collective wisdom through inquiry, small experiments and actions for change. APD is led by the people in the community who are most directly influenced by existing challenges and emerging opportunities.
Eliminating MRSA Infections Plexus MRSA Bundle: The HOW of Staff Engagement and Culture Change (ppt) or smaller pdf with notes.
Inviting Everyone: Healing Healthcare through Positive Deviance by Arvind Singhal PhD, Prucia Buscell, Curt Lindberg DMan
Positive Deviance and Hospital Acquired Infection (ppt) – Curt Lindberg, 2009
STEP: The Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Project (pdf) Long Beach Unified School District
LIBERATING STRUCTURES
Liberating Structures was incubated at Plexus Institute as a tool set of powerful and adaptive “mini-processes” for group engagements. For easy reference to the list of Liberating Structures, download the app at Apple App Store or Google Play by searching for Liberating Structures.
Liberating_Structures, Lisa Kimball
Lipmanowicz, H., & McCandless, K. (2014).Practicing Liberating Structures in Healthcare Cabin Creek Health Systems- a group of community health centers in rural West Virginia partnered with Plexus to modify organizational practices. More projects have been sustained and the staff has been happier and more productive.