Notes on a just and regenerative future

On our blog, you’ll read contributions from a range of people and organisations who share our enthusiasm and our ambition for a just and regenerative future, and our desire to learn from each other.

Change Through Irrigation

Sarena is the Partnership and Programs Lead at the School of System Change. This article, Change Through Irrigation, is part of a series exploring our intentions for inquiry and storytelling through six key themes as we live into our new way of being at the School. As the story …
- #In Practice
by Sarena Chan

November 1, 2023
Organising the Critical Yeast of Change

Sean is the Learning and Practice Partner Lead at the School of System Change. This article, Organising the Critical Yeast of Change, is part of a series exploring our intentions for inquiry and storytelling through six key themes as we live into our new way of being at the …
- #Relational
- #In Practice
by Sean Andrew

October 2, 2023
Juanita Zerda - Systems Dialogues

Systems Dialogues, our conversations with systems practitioners This conversation is part of our Stepping into Systems series, an introduction to fundamental systems change topics and concepts. Here we’re joined by Juanita Zerda, a director at the Collective Change Lab. In this …
by Saskia Rysenbry

September 28, 2023
Ana Lucia Castano - Systems Dialogues

Systems Dialogues, our conversations with systems practitioners This conversation is part of our Stepping into Systems series, an introduction to fundamental systems change topics and concepts. Here we’re joined by Ana Lucia Castano, a Colombian anthropologist and agroecologist. …
by Saskia Rysenbry

September 28, 2023
‘A new world of possibilities’: Climate change and its impacts on health

Emma Iovoli, a Life Sciences Consultant in Climate and Health, shares her experience and key learnings from completing Delta, our five-week introduction to systems change course, in spring 2023. Plus, discover how a complexity mindset and systems change approaches can open up “a …
- #Alumni Stories
by School of System Change

August 31, 2023
Learning Is Change

Anna is the CEO (Chief Enabling/Evolving Officer) at the School of System Change. This article, Learning is Change, is part of a series exploring our intentions for inquiry and storytelling through six key themes as we live into our new way of being at the School. Life is …
- #Relational
- #Worldviews & Philosophies
- #Inner Work
by Anna Birney

July 5, 2023
Our Seeds for Storytelling

Saskia is the Learning Curator at the School of System Change. Here she shares our evolution for the School, the path ahead and our intentions for inquiry and storytelling — jump to the end of this article to see our six key themes we’re exploring in 2023! I have been at the …
by Saskia Rysenbry

May 25, 2023
Systems Change and the Circular Economy With Anna Birney

Systems change can help us understand and act for different challenges. Dr Anna Birney, CEO at the School of System Change, joined Lou on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Circular Economy Show on 28th March 2023 to discuss how it applies to the Circular Economy. Watch the video or …
by School of System Change

May 24, 2023
Making Progress in Complex Policy Environments

Curious about how systemic approaches can enable real progress in public policymaking in complex environments? On Thursday 4 May 2023, the School of System Change and Oliver Standing (that’s me; a proud alum of the School) co-hosted a webinar to explore this topic, featuring …
- #In Practice
by Oliver Standing

May 17, 2023
Irrigating Our Health Ecosystems with System Change Practitioners

Marion Birnstill is a Global Health specialist and facilitator who is deeply intrigued by the link between health, spirituality, and systems change. She studied with the School of System Change before partnering to explore together how we might irrigate our health ecosystems …
- #Health
by Marion Birnstill

November 29, 2022
From War Zones to Children’s Hubs: Insights and Advice From My Systems Journey

Scott Hinkle completed the School of System Change Basecamp and Spark programmes in 2021. Here he shares insights and advice from entering the world of complexity to his current focus, including embodying systems change as an internal practice and three practical facilitation …
- #Alumni Stories
by Scott Hinkle

October 3, 2022
Pattern Spotting: A Core Practice for Systems Change

I find pattern spotting deeply satisfying as a practice. It helps me work with complexity rather than trying to simplify it, it reveals rhythms and structures that can support deep change work, it awakens my curiosity and creativity and quietens my rational brain’s constant …
by Laura Winn

September 21, 2022
‘Swimming in the Vast Sea of Systems Change’: 5 Key Lessons Nurtured Through Basecamp

In 2021 I (Mairi Lowe) completed the School of System Change Basecamp programme. I was delighted to speak with the School team to share how the course shifted my mindset to help me embrace complexity and move through self-doubt and overwhelm, plus how I put this mindset shift …
- #Alumni Stories
by Mairi Lowe

December 9, 2021