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Systems Thinking Resources

Recommended readings and videos in systems thinking for facilitators of the Work That Reconnects.

[Apologies for the poor reproductions.  Obtain books if possible–you’ll want them in your library.]


  • Systems demystified by Catherine Gautier-Downes, WTR facilitator: https://vimeo.com/262298263
  • A Worldview of Swirly Things by Victor Lee Lewis
    • Part 1, 50 min:   https://vimeo.com/261439640 
    • Part 2, 1 hr 27 min: https://vimeo.com/260492934

Great website:
Learning for Sustainability: http://learningforsustainability.net/systems-thinking/


  • Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking, by Draper Kauffman, Jr.  Available for download or online reading here:  https://www.academia.edu/3317732/Systems_one_An_introduction_to_systems_thinking

  • “Self-Realization: An Ecological Approach to Being in the World”, by Arne Naess. From Seed, Macy, Fleming & Naess, Thinking Like a Mountain. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25_Ne3KAfuCaE5Ea1EyQ0xtaXc

  • Part Two of A Systems View of the World, by Ervin Laszlo, 1972. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25_Ne3KAfuCVjhHR3BsSGcyUEE

  • Chapter 1 from Systems, Structure, and Experience, by Ervin Laszlo, 1969. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25_Ne3KAfuCX3VzMGFfYlhtNXM 
    [If you can find the original book, that will be easier to read.]

  • Pages 5-7, 157-158, 163-165 from Understanding Gregory Bateson: Mind, Beauty, and the Sacred Earth by Noel G. Charlton, 2008. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25_Ne3KAfuCdmNURDA4VTBiS1U

  • “The Greening of the Self” from World As Lover, World As Self  by Joanna Macy, 2004. Poor reproduction; read book if possible.  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25_Ne3KAfuCSkZaUXhYdGI0LUU

  • pp. 3-7 from The Global Brain, by Peter Russell.

  • “The Next Level of Systems Thinking—Non-Linear, Complex Dynamical Systems” by Jim Brown (revised slightly).  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eZnJl8F1TeoIaoPVk64K-dmgasRUgCXRq1FpK42DAGY/edit?usp=sharing

  • Margaret Wheatly, Who Do We Choose to Be?  Facing reality, claiming leadership, restoring sanity. BK Publishers, 2017.  Amazing compendium of systems thinking, time, identity, information science, self-organization, perception, interconnectedness, and transformational leadership, based on science and the wisdom of great thinkers from many cultures.

  • Margaret Wheatly and Deborah Frieze, “Lifecycle of Emergence: Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale.” from Kosmos, Spring/Summer 2015.  Includes sidebar by Elisabet Sahtouris listing “Principles of Healthy Living Systems.”  (Molly posting this without Joanna’s okay because she’s busy in France.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B25_Ne3KAfuCWFU2aFVWOEdsQnc/view?usp=sharing

  • Systems graphic 

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