Cynefin Basecamp
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An entry-level programme designed to be taught by third parties
Contents
Overall learning objectives
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Who can teach it
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Preparation
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Structure
Session 1
Opening exercise
- Participants share an experience of what brought them to the course and their learning needs and plans for action
- In a reduced form of Silent listening each person is listed to in silence with participants writing down needs/ ideas and issues on individual hexies
- the hexies are then clustered and each cluster is given a name
- the exercise is used to illustrate the wider principles of Complex facilitation
Systems
- A SYSTEM is a group of interacting or interrelated entities that form a coherent whole.
- A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.
- An AGENT is anything which acts (has agency) within the system individual, group, story, idea etc.
Three types of system are then introduced
- Ordered where the system constrains agents to a level where they actions are predictable
- Chaotic were there are no effective constraints
- Complex where everything is entangled with most other things as the system itself changes over time and as a result of agent interaction
Ordered systems are defined by:
- predictable
- control levers (NEEDS EXPLANATION)
- repeatable
- aggregation
- the whole is the sum of parts
- long foresight
- constraints tend to contain
Chaotic systems are defined by:
- no effective constraints
- volatile
- not sustainable - always temporary
- no foresight
- nature is used as a positive with MassSense in Cynefin (this is a note not a characteristic)
Complex systems are defined by:
- constraints tend to connnext
- modulated and disposition no linear causality
- managed by influencing their change over time
- some foresight of dispositional state and probabilities
closing exercise
- What are your biggest insights from the pre-work and up to now?
- Which paradigms and worldviews do you think are no longer sufficient? Why?
- Is there anything you’d like to clarify?
Complexity
Joining up the dots used as an exercise