healthcare design Australia

Healthcare is in crisis in many parts of the world. Design as a strategy for creative, innovative and intentional change is gaining attention from leadership in healthcare. An example is an event in Australia that approaches healthcare design as an opportunity for healthcare and related professionals to take on the role of designer in order to transform their organizations into design competent organizations able to design healthcare systems.

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certainty vs certitude

Certaintly and Certitude The necessity of well-formed questions "certitude leads to violence" - Oliver Wendell Holmes https://hnelson.substack.com/p/certainty-vs-certitude

thinking amid complexity

Reality—real life—is complex, more complex than has been imagined or can be imagined. The majority of our pressing challenges or issues of concern are overwhelmingly complex in overwhelmingly complex environments and contexts. People are more complex than appreciated or understood. Complexity is the essence of being human, of life, of existence. When there isn’t the competency or ability to deal with complex situations, they are referred to as being too complicated and ‘wicked’ — e.g., ‘wicked problems’. But the perceived ‘wicked’ quality of a situation is actually a reflection of a change agent's inability to engage successfully with the complex situation at hand. As Annis Nin observed, “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” Unfortunately, the characterization of a situation as wicked rather than the competency of a change agent to successfully engage with complexity short-circuits the selection of appropriate methods of inquiry, replacing them with more ...

sudden understanding

Sudden understanding Substack post https://hnelson.substack.com/p/sudden-understanding

Accidental Vagrant

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