July 2016 – Censemaking

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 113 Views adaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

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The healing power of curiosity

July 9, 2016August 2, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 64 Views Arthur Zajonc, Black Lives Matter, Brexit, community psychology, contemplative inquiry, love, mindfulness, mindset, protest, psychology, race, Toronto, United Kingdom, United States

It has been a heavy few weeks in the world. In times like this we often raise our voice to

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Culture and heritage: Social systems in four dimensions

July 7, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 123 Views Brexit, complexity, culture, England, football, Germany, heritage, sport, systems thinking

International sporting events like the World Cup and the Olympics provide intriguing examples of the complexity and situated-nature of culture and

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Ethics and Systemic Change

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 328 Views Boris Johnson, Brexit, Cognitive Edge, community psychology, complexity, conscious creation, David Cameron, design, design thinking, design-driven-strategy, Europe, OCADU, Peter Jones, politics, strategic foresight, systemic design, systems change, United Kingdom

Systems change is a goal for many social advocates — whether aimed at politics, climate change, social norms or beyond

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