A Deeper Dive into Complexity Thinking Are you interested in diving into the world of complexity thinking and exploring its applications? Plexus Institute focuses on complexity thinking, specifically in the context of improving resilient communities, and organizations. Plexus network members are Complexity Thinkers, with the unique ability to take a stance anywhere in the system and see, understand, and influence next steps. They are unshaken amid the crashing and breaking of chaos and disruption. Here's how you [...]

ComPlexus podcast, host Bruce Waltuck is joined by a true pioneer in the field of seeking meaningful insights in complex human situations, Cynthia Kurtz.  From her early work as an Ethologist, studying animal behavior as an “evolutionarily adaptive trait,” Cynthia went on to work at IBM, where she co-developed the globally-known Cynefin Framework with Dave Snowden, Sharon Darwen, and others.  From there, Cynthia developed her own approach to what she termed Participatory Narrative Inquiry, creating her own open-source narrative [...]

Vital Capacities and the Prospects for Thriving Together If our response to the Covid pandemic had been creation of a system designed to address the needs of all people, the spread of the disease would have slowed, fewer would have died, and economic pain would have been reduced. Bobby Milstein, one of the editors of the Thriving Together Springboard (http://Thriving.US), has been studying the difference between organizing ourselves against adversity versus organizing ourselves FOR well-being. He will share a summary of those [...]

If Our Senses Lie, Who Knows What's True? Can We Recognize Reality, and Would it Help?  If you tend to think of reality as a great hulking mass of moving parts where definable events happen among substantial and identifiable agents, you’re probably deluded. And from an evolutionary standpoint that might be just fine. Donald D. Hoffman, a professor of cognitive science at the University of California at Irvine, has spent decade studying perception, artificial intelligence, evolutionary game theory and [...]

Business & Organization Guidelines for Addressing the Coronavirus How to Take Action Now The role of business and organizational leaders is to provide critical guidance and policies that balance the needs of employees, customers and the greater communities they work and live in. This is a guide for implementing immediate actions to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19. Taking appropriate action begins with understanding and supporting the scientific and best practice protocols for practicing healthy safety throughout an organization. [...]