Connective tissue

Connective tissue

« Back to our fieldbook Connective tissue Here lies the critical challenge: systems change projects operate on longer timeframes and by nature cannot offer conventional measurement. They may challenge long-held paradigms or threaten vested interests. Traditional...
Critical mass, networks, and resilience

Critical mass, networks, and resilience

« Back to our fieldbook Critical mass, networks, and resilience How infrastructure enables emergence Critical Mass Having established what systems change infrastructure looks like in practice, we now turn to how it functions: specifically, the dynamics of critical...
Introduction

Introduction

« Back to our fieldbook Introduction This chapter explores how expanding our mindset opens the door to systems thinking. The explorers club exists as a living lab for this work. A place of do-ism, experimentation, and learning by doing. An adventure for systemic...
Why Mindset Is a Leverage Point

Why Mindset Is a Leverage Point

« Back to our fieldbook Why Mindset Is a Leverage Point In systems change, not all interventions carry the same weight. Some adjustments improve performance only at the margins. Others reshape everything else. Donella Meadows described this difference through the idea...
Shifting the inner place

Shifting the inner place

« Back to our fieldbook Shifting the inner place Inner change and systems change are intertwined. How we see, know, and act shapes the systems we build. Systemic change begins internally. It asks us to examine our assumptions, stay present with uncertainty, and work...