2022 Dialogues
Systems Aware Investing with Monique Aiken
This session features Monique Aiken, Managing Director of The Investment Integration Project, in conversation about her work on moving capital towards justice and Systems Aware Investing.
Monique Aiken
Monique is Managing Director of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), a consulting services and applied research firm that provides advice, thought leadership and a turnkey solution (SAIL) to help investors manage systemic risks and opportunities. She is also a Contributing Editor at ImpactAlpha,and the host of “The Reconstruction” podcast. She is a co-founder of the collective Make Justice Normal, as well as the ReStarter Fund for economic and climate justice.
Permaculture with Lydia Neilsen and Anne Freiwald of Vital Cycles
In this session, Lydia Neilsen and Anne Freiwald of Vital Cycles explore their work in permaculture and community health.
Vital Cycles
Vital Cycles is an education and design partnership between Lydia Neilsen and Anne Friewald in Santa Cruz, CA, focused on engaging with and understanding ourselves as nature and how we can enact practices and functional systems towards planetary and personal regeneration. They bring together extensive backgrounds in community health and permaculture education and activism.
The Work that Reconnects with Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
In this session, we discuss The Work that Reconnects and how it integrates with systems thinking, led by Joanna Macy, Ph.D., Buddhist Scholar and Systems Thinker.
Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy PhD, teacher and author, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Macy has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change that brings a new way of seeing the world as our larger body. Macy is retired and lives in Berkeley, California.
Relational Systems Thinking with Melanie Goodchild
Melanie Goodchild, faculty member of the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning, joins us for a conversation about her work on the intersection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of thinking and knowing, decolonization and relational systems thinking.
Melanie Goodchild
Melanie Goodchild is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar. She is moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations. Melanie is currently a PHD candidate in Social & Ecological Sustainability at the University of Waterloo and is a Research Fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience.
Warm Data with Nora Bateson
In this session, Nora Bateson joins us for a discussion of her work on the ecology of conversation and warm data
Nora Bateson
Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?” Nora wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary, An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father, Gregory Bateson.
The Work of Donella Meadows with Marta Ceroni
In conversation with Marta Ceroni, Co-Director of the Academy for Systems Change, we explore the work of Donella Meadows, a godmother of systems thinking whose seminal work "Limits to Growth" was originally published fifty years ago this year.
Marta Ceroni
Marta is the co-director of the Academy for Systems Change, a nonprofit that supports organization- and community leaders in their capacity to shape more equitable and sustainable futures through peer learning and a focus on awareness-based systems change.
