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

1998). It differs from the Japanese concept of Ba, which is a “shared space for emerging relationships” (Nonaka & Konno 1998) in that it links a community into its shared history – or histories – in a way that paradoxically both limits the perception of that community while enabling an instinctive and intuitive ability to adapt to conditions of
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When we understand the dispositional state of a system, we can also recognize Kairos moments, opportune times when the system is poised for change.
Boudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
Ontology, Ontological Related to the philosophical study of being (existence, reality, becoming and being). Or, the study of “what is.”
Boudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
Elephant paths, or desire lines, are informal paths that pedestrians prefer to take from one location to another rather than using a sidewalk or, in our case, the paved garden paths.
Boudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
You can better see now that the typical (and usually linear) problem-solving orientation that dominates many workshops and projects is not helpful in complex socio-technical systems. In ordered contexts, we are dealing with solvable problems; in complex ones, we are dealing with emergent and entangled patterns. Cynefin methods propel us to see and
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I close my eyes and inhale deeply. Hold for ten seconds. I breathe out. Hold for ten seconds. This is a sequence I repeat whenever I start to feel anxious or tense - emotions I experience much too often for my liking these days.
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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
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Methods, tools, and frameworks, however, are not universally applicable; there are no silver bullets. We articulate this in Cynefin with the term ‘bounded applicability’ i.e., we believe that most things are useful within certain boundaries.
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Phenomenology The philosophical study of consciousness and experiences from the first person perspective.