Crossing the Bridge

Crossing the Bridge

  • Who are you? Tales from ‘Crossing the Bridge’ and the ‘Creating the Conditions©’ series of systems thinking approaches.

    It’s a strange phenomenon – the erosion of the individual and their unique thinking and style. I stand back and watch it with sadness in the arena of systems thinking. There are two ways I see this happening: The first happens when a really enthusiastic and forward thinking systems thinker does not have faith or…

  • Systems thinking practitioners – thinking of writing a book?

    In May 2023, I released my book, ‘Crossing the bridge: A practitioner’s learning journey into systems thinking and Creating the Conditions for Change’. It is a clear, non-technical and practical guide to how to start applying systems thinking ideas in an organisational setting, which I self-published through Kindle Direct Publishing. Putting systems thinking into practice…

  • Asserting boundaries

    It’s interesting, isn’t it, the way people react to you asserting boundaries in your work? I don’t know about you but whenever I assert a boundary, people think I’m going crazy. I’m not. I’m just letting you know that you cannot manipulate my purpose to serve you instead of serving me. Boundaries are absolutely essential…

  • Systems thinking practitioners – who are they?

    Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvsoS5Paduk I’ve been liaising with a number of systems thinking practitioners lately who are new to the field or may still be going through their training. Many are keen to know what it’s really like to be a systems thinking practitioner. It isn’t a well-known profession, although there have been systems thinkers in…

  • The joy of creating

    Whilst I am in the midst of family bereavement at the moment, I have also managed to embrace an exciting and invigorating week that has reawakened in me the joy of creating. Creating insight expressed in writing. Creating new and different ways of looking at things, of putting them together and making them useful. Creating…

  • We can educate and train but can we employ systems thinkers?

    Over the last couple of months I have had a series of discussions with several students about their future as they move forwards with their systems practice. They are keen and eager to step forward in the world as systems thinking practitioners. There is only one problem……where do they get employment or how do they…

  • What value can a systems thinking practitioner bring to your workplace?

    Provided that the systems thinking practitioner has been appropriately trained and/ or educated in the field and has a degree of experiential learning, the value they bring to your workplace can be significant. That value can be threefold Part of that value is in supporting you to achieve triple loop learning, ensuring that you consider…

  • Starting out on our learning journey

    ‘When I first set out on my journey to apply systems thinking in my work situations, many around me did not know where I was going with it or what I would do with it. Indeed, neither did I. They tirelessly walked alongside me anyway. Some of them have been with me for years, giving…