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…

  • Set your creativity free

    Visionary thinking and creative insight does not always come from being an academic. I have spoken and written many times about the creativity and insight of those applying systems thinking in their everyday work. They generally aren’t sat at computers writing journal articles, paying for them to be published or going through grueling peer review…

  • Reflecting on being an evaluator

    This year I have completed a three year evaluation of a community organising project. It was an interesting journey where I took a developmental evaluation approach with systems thinking. Part of my considerations was to create effective conditions for the evaluation to be successful. My role was not as a first order, objective, dispassionate observer.…