Pacing Changes: Seeing Living Systems as Rhythms

How do you approach systems change when there’s no “pause” button? This presentation shifts how we see systems: from the default spatial-static to a more processual-dynamic perspective. We integrate concepts drawn from this living systems perspective found in anthropology, architecture, and classical Chinese medicine, amongst others. Pacing Changes is introduced as a method for working with the multiple layers and differing paces of a system.

This online event features Zaid Khan and David Ing of the Systems Changes Learning (SCL) Circle, which began in 2019 as a 10-year project (now nearing the end of year 7) in Toronto, Canada. They are also both fellows of the Creative Systemic Research Practice (CSRP) Institute.