Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02

Order – To accommodate the disconnect between reality (ontology: how things are), perception (phenomenology: how we perceive things), and knowledge (epistemology: how we know things) in human systems,

aporia, a state of authentic confusion i.e., being confused and aware.

Cynefin tries to establish what they are and understand what it takes to move between domains - something which has historically been called Cynefin dynamics.

Ontology, Ontological Related to the philosophical study of being (existence, reality, becoming and being). Or, the study of “what is.”

Applying the principle of coherent heterogeneity, we can accept and value the diversity of localized sub-cultures, as long as they are coherent with the identity of the whole.

When we understand the dispositional state of a system, we can also recognize Kairos moments, opportune times when the system is poised for change.

“Cynefin is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English. As a noun, it is translated as habitat,

Cynefin says that there is nothing wrong with order, if you can achieve it. This is the principle of ‘bounded applicability,’ different things work or don’t work in different domains.

In short, Cynefin methods are based on finding the evolutionary potential in the present, setting a broad future direction, and moving towards ‘adjacent possibles.’ The best way to describe this is by crossing a river by feeling the stones. The intent or direction is to cross the river. We are not aiming for a particular spot (in contrast to the id