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Also posted on Linked in August 25, 2026. Hope has been on my mind a lot lately.  I’ve been reading SciFi that has a hopeful outcome after the polycrisis, the many crises that seem to be accelerating in real time. I heard Thomas Homer Dixon’s talk yesterday about the Hope Attractor (very small but real) … Read more

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to connect the plurality of frameworks in the collection to the idea that the frameworks can be GUIDEing (Guiding, Useful, Inspiring, Developmental and Evaluable from Michael Quin Patton’s Principles-focused Evaluation).  It is probably safe to assume that many of the frameworks are guiding, useful and inspiring based … Read more

Yesterday I had had time to pause for some reflection.  It started with this new entry into my Reconciliation Journal which reminded me of a conversation I had a while ago with my friends and colleagues at IDEA Diabetes.  As I was testing the idea that some of the images in the website might be … Read more

I seem to be going down a rabbit hole prompted by Josie Gibson’s invitation to present to the Catalyst-FX Network.  We settled on the title “A Peek “Under-the-hood” of the Complex Systems Frameworks Collection”, and now I am trawling through my list or presentations to create an archive.  I’m hoping to put together a story … Read more

I’ve been thinking about writing this reflection for some time.  In some ways it became the reason why I should write a blog for the website in the first place.  If you have read my earliest posts, you will know I’ve dragged my heels a lot.  But the idea of having a place to talk … Read more

Note: This entry was borrowed from my personal Reconciliation Journal. It has been a busy week getting ready to add some new content to this Complex Systems Frameworks Collection.  In my spare time or while pulling weeds in the garden, I find myself thinking a lot about the idea of an Indigenous collection to help … Read more

It feels like my quest to figure out how to include an Indigenous Frameworks mini-collection into this collection has just gone through a phase transition.  For years I have been reaching out from my colonial paradigm to try to get other academics to talk with me.  Now through a relational approach, conversations have started to happen and I am beginning to see some pathways to building this mini-collection.

It feels like my quest to figure out how to include an Indigenous Frameworks mini-collection into this collection has just gone through a phase transition.  For years I have been reaching out from my colonial paradigm to try to get other academics to talk with me.  Now through a relational approach, conversations have started to happen and I am beginning to see some pathways to building this mini-collection.

So I’ve now gone through the chapter in Carlos’s book on slower is faster in an effort to find some ideas for images.  I abstracted his examples into a table…

I’ve started thinking about how to build new frameworks for the collection.  After hearing talks by Mark Cabaj and Carlos Gershenshon I got to thinking about how to represent ideas about tensions and balance in complex systems in the frameworks collection.  I got Mark, Carlos and Sam on a zoom call and we ideated about images based on their work.