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Linda Booth Sweeney: Remembering what we already know

Using our systems intelligence to meet 21st century challenges

Saturday, April 18, 2009	For alumni, current students, general public
6:30–8:30 pm	Admission Free
Note: New Location! Chardin, Room 142. Seattle University	SOLD OUT

A sticky-web-building spider from the folktale "Kanu Above and Kanu Below" helps shift your systems-thinking perspective in this free, two-hour experiential and multi-sensory workshop.

Systems thinking is a set of methods and tools that focus on systems — rather than fragments — as the context for defining and solving complex problems, and for fostering more effective learning and design. At its best, the practice of systems thinking helps us to stop operating from crisis to crisis, and to think in a less fragmented, more integrated way.

When we see our world — our watersheds, families, schools, organizations, economies — in terms of systems, we pay attention to how patterns of interaction bend, weave, loop and change over time. As we make those patterns visible, we see they’re capable of producing breathtaking synergy in nature, and at the same time, of presenting some of the most puzzling and intractable challenges we face as humans.

In this session with Linda Booth Sweeney, you will explore today’s call for greater understanding of living systems. How do we understand our realities — our families, our schools, our communities, our organizations, our planet — as a living system? What is systems intelligence? What are the habits of mind can strengthen our ability to think and act systemically? What shifts of perspective will help us to see and better understand the systems in our everyday lives?

This session includes audio, visual and kinesthetic learning. Come prepared to participate; you may even have some fun.

Directions: From Interstate 5, take the James St. exit (#164A northbound, #165 southbound). Turn east on James St. and proceed up the hill through the light on Broadway. Turn left onto 12th Avenue and left onto East Marion Street.

Parking: Visitor Parking at 12th and E. Marion Street, after 3pm rate $6. map

Questions? Contact Paula Brekke, OSR Community Coordinator, email or call +1-206-296-5898.

Related links

Linda Booth Sweeney Web site

Page updated Mon, April 13, 2009