INSIGHT & EXPERTISE FOR WORK IN 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.
Practice Complexity Thinking in Real-World Systems
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.
Engaging complexity at Plexus Institute emerges from the diverse Network conversations, collaborations and member driven activities that explore and apply complexity thinking to challenges and opportunities in complex organizational systems. Plexus members both share expertise and seek collaborative input for ideas, challenges and early stage projects.
Plexus has a track record of successfully designing, developing, piloting and launching new models, practices, applications, tools and programs that build on expertise in applying principles of complexity to everyday work environments. The understanding and influence of Complexity Thinking continues to evolve globally through Network members and Partners.
INSPIRED BY EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION
CURRENT POSTS
Are Multiage Classrooms Better for Children?
Are Multiage Classrooms Better for Children? Advocates for multiage education believe children flourish in environments where youngsters of different ages learn together in settings that feature collaboration, leadership, empathy, and social awareness along [...]
Nature’s Most Extreme Deadly Events Happening More Often
Die-offs Endanger Food Webs and Human Health Scientists examining the catastrophe unfolding in the path of Australia’s deadly bushfires may discover mass mortality events, terrifying phenomena in which vast numbers of a species [...]
Dangerous New Weather Systems
Clouds of Fire Generate Dangerous New Weather Systems The intense and boundless fires that have already devoured nearly 18 millions of acres of Australia are generating their own distinctive weather systems that spin off [...]
CURRENT PODCASTS
Catalyzing Conversations Podcast
Current EpisodesListen to Podcast
ComPlexus Podcast
Current EpisodesNursing Science & Complexity Podcast
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Episode 1: Past, Present & Future of Nursing Science & Complexity
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Editors Selection From the Archives
COMPLEXITY THINKING
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.