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Master Classes in Systemic Designing now available

 Master Classes in Systemic Designing

https://www.haroldgnelson.com/masterclasses

 

It’s Time

for a pivot in how we approach securing improvements in the human condition

 

 

These Systemic Design Master Classes offer a general overview of one thread of inquiry that is used in the development of a supportive foundation for stances and approaches to systemic designing. 

 

Familiarity with this thread is intended to be the inception point for future shared exchanges with others who are learning and applying systemic design approaches.  

 

These inquiries are meant to further develop fundamental skills and perspectives acquired — not through argumentation and debate — but rather through conversations and dialogues. 

 

These Inquires are guided in part by the values and beliefs made visible in the prospectus for a proposed Systemic-Design ‘Flight’ School:

 

https://www.academia.edu/110744521/PROSPECTUS_Systemic_Design_Flight_School

 

This prospectus is inclusive — not exclusive — of the postulates, assertions, and beliefs underling systemic design.  The prospectus is exemplary of the direction of new thinking taken from within a new culture of inquiry — systemic design.

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