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Published in Systemsbeing

·Mar 19

Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich Pictures

Bob Williams, Joan O’Donnell The third of a series of blogs on using systems thinking in research Let’s start with a true story. It follows on from our last blog about focus and scope. But it highlights our tendency to start with focusing in on the subject of our research…

Systems Thinking

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Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich Pictures
Systems Thinking in Research: Considering Interrelationships in Research Through Rich Pictures
Systems Thinking

8 min read


Published in Systemsbeing

·Jan 1

Getting to the heart of designing research using systems thinking

Authors: Bob Williams, Joan O’Donnell Nobody would deny that research is a complex business. One of the most complex decisions is deciding the focus of your research among the vast range of possibilities that lie within its scope. This blog explores how understanding and addressing three different kinds of complexity…

Systems Thinking

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Getting to the heart of designing research using systems thinking
Getting to the heart of designing research using systems thinking
Systems Thinking

5 min read


Published in Systemsbeing

·Jan 1

A feast of new ideas: Systems Thinking in research

Joan O’Donnell & Bob Williams This blog is the first of a series of blogpost contributions outlining basic Systems Thinking concepts presented at the ADVANCE CRT Summer School that Joan and Bob helped to design in June 2022, held in Maynooth University Ireland. ‘The Systems Thinking summer school opened up…

Systems Thinking

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A feast of new ideas: Systems Thinking in research
A feast of new ideas: Systems Thinking in research
Systems Thinking

8 min read


Published in Systemsbeing

·Jan 1

From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the ground

Barbara Schmidt-Abbey (Open University) Joan O’Donnell (Maynooth University) Kirsten Bording Collins (Adaptive Purpose) The title of the 14th European Evaluation Society’s Biennial conference in Copenhagen in June 2022 posited that evaluation finds itself at a watershed and called for “actions and shifting paradigms in challenging times”. At the time of…

Systems Thinking

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From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the ground
From first-order to second-order evaluation practice: time to shift the ground
Systems Thinking

11 min read


Published in Systemsbeing

·May 16, 2022

Growing Our 21st Century Collective Leadership Skills

What do we do when we do not know what to do next, but are under pressure to do something? Too often something becomes anything, and anything is something that we have done before. Credit to: Photo by Lena Khrupina from Pexels The pandemic prompted speedy innovation and improvisation: it…

Collective Leadership

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Growing Our 21st Century Collective Leadership Skills
Growing Our 21st Century Collective Leadership Skills
Collective Leadership

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Published in Systemsbeing

·Mar 9, 2022

The future of work and disability: learning our way forward

Continuous advances in technology and Assistive Technology (AT) enhance the range of work that people can do outside the office environment, making working-from-home (WFH), hybrid or remote working a realistic option for many workers with disabilities. …

Disability

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The future of work and disability: learning our way forward
The future of work and disability: learning our way forward
Disability

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Published in Systemsbeing

·Sep 5, 2021

Creating an inclusive workforce for all our tomorrows

It’ time to ditch failing strategies and embracing an inclusive future of work Covid-19 has compounded the difficulties disabled people face with regard to work, but it did not cause the fault-line in Irish social policy that resulted in Ireland having the poorest EU participation rates of disabled people in the workforce…even before the pandemic. Despite the shift in emphasis to remote working…

Disability

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Creating an inclusive workforce for all our tomorrows
Creating an inclusive workforce for all our tomorrows
Disability

6 min read


Published in Systemsbeing

·Aug 21, 2021

Remothering Earth

I wrote this piece for Unpsychology, as a response to meeting the earth rising in the shape of a Buddhist nun, whose fearsomeness pivoted me into an uneasy and more honest relationship with myself. The sky outside is darkening, turning the feeling of the room to mahogany, I taste the…

Psychology Systemsbeing

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Remothering Earth
Remothering Earth
Psychology Systemsbeing

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Published in Systemsbeing

·Jan 2, 2021

Now is the time to own your own unique story

As an embodied being, you have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Getting to grips with this fact of life leads to endless possibilities — and a new story The narrative you weave for your life cannot be outsourced. You cannot rely on promises of salvation via vaccines, politics…

Systems Being

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Now is the time to own your own unique story
Now is the time to own your own unique story
Systems Being

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Published in Science & Soul

·Dec 30, 2020

Lockdown curry and the alchemy of becoming a better human being

Two things I have learned in 2020, including a paradox of chili proportions Lockdown curry “The lockdown curry” became infamous, when, after months of home cooking I announced we were splashing out on a takeaway. Our mouths watered as we studied the online menu and grappled with our desire for chicken, avoiding…

Science And Soul

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Lockdown curry and the alchemy of becoming a better human being
Lockdown curry and the alchemy of becoming a better human being
Science And Soul

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Joan O'Donnell

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Doctoral researcher, lecturer. Systemic & embodied transformation. Www.systemsbeing.com. Editor: https://medium.com/living-in-systems

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