In this special issue on the EcoSystemic Return, we have the honour of our Revival Paper being the 2013 paper by esteemed systemic ecology activist from Ireland, Philip Kearney. This paper is a reminder that the systemic community did not heed warnings about ecology issued by Gregory Bateson in the 1960s and 70s. In 2013, Phil Kearney reminded us again. The original paper is followed by a fresh piece of writing for this special issue. Philip Kearney reignites his passion and anger, his critical analysis and call to action for this protracted phase of climate change complacency. Sincere thanks and appreciation to Jim Sheehan and colleagues of Feedback: Journal of the Family Therapy Association of Ireland for permission to re-print the 2103 article which had the vision to provide a platform for this important work.
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In the second part of the text “Becoming a posthuman systemic nomad”, I suggest ways in which systemic practitioners may become systemic nomads, reintegrating cybernetics and social constructionism and taking a new-materialist perspective on life. Systemic therapists may become “post human systemic nomads”, navigating and systemically learning in complex adaptive systems, in which we are relational responsible to all human and non-human actors in the networks that we produce and that we are produced by. Inspired by the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari I made three cartographies for us, systemic nomads, navigating complexity in multi-actor systems. Systemic practitioners (from a new-materialist perspective) can co-create better ecological worlds if we are conscious of the effects of our actions in interdependent relationships with all actors in life, when – as nomads – we display systemic sensibility or intelligence (Senge, 2006) within systems of multi-actors. Abstract (Dutch) In dit tweede deel van de tekst “Becoming a posthuman systemic nomad” beschrijf ik hoe systeemtherapeuten en consulenten “systemische nomaden” kunnen worden door in hun denken en doen inspiraties uit de cybernetica, het sociaal constructionisme en het nieuw-materialisme te integreren. Systeemtherapeuten en ‘systemisch’ consulenten, die “systemische nomaden” worden, navigeren en leren navigeren in complex adaptieve multi-actor systemen. Zij ervaren een ‘relationele verantwoordelijkheid’ naar zowel humane als niet-humane (dingen, dieren, planten) actoren in de netwerken waartoe zij betekenisvol bijdragen, waarvan zij om betekenisvol voort te bestaan afhankelijk zijn. “Systemische nomaden”, bewust van de inter-afhankelijkheid tussen alle humane en niet-humane deelnemers in het multi-actor netwerk, kunnen mogelijk bijdragen in de co-creatie van betere ecologisch afgestemde leefwerelden. Geïnspireerd door de filosofie van Deleuze en Guattari maakte ik drie cartografieën die ons in dit proces van navigeren en leren navigeren kunnen helpen.
在文章的第二部分“成为一个后人类的系统游牧民”中,我提出了系统实践者可能成为系统游牧民的方法,重新整合控制论和社会建构主义,并采取新唯物主义的人生观。系统治疗师可能会成为“后人类系统游牧民”,在复杂的适应系统中导航和系统学习,在这个系统中,我们对我们产生和被我们产生的网络中的所有人类和非人类参与者负责。受德勒兹和瓜塔里哲学的启发,我为我们制作了三幅地图,系统游牧民,在多角色系统中导航复杂性。系统实践者(从新唯物主义的角度来看)可以共同创造更好的生态世界,如果我们意识到我们的行为在与生活中所有参与者的相互依存关系中的影响,当-作为游牧民族-我们在多参与者的系统中表现出系统的敏感性或智慧(Senge, 2006)。[摘要](荷兰)在《成为一个后人类的系统游牧民》(dit tweede deel van de tekst)中,“系统治疗”(systememische nomaden)被称为“系统治疗”(systememische nomaden),“系统治疗”(systememische nomaden)被称为“系统治疗”(systememische nomaden)。在复杂的自适应多参与者系统中,系统治疗是“系统管理”,系统管理是“系统管理”,导航是“系统管理”。zijjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj。zijjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj。“系统的nomaden”,是指在多主体网络中,“人文的”、“人文的”、“共同的”、“共同的”、“共同的”、“生态的”、“共同的”。Geïnspireerd door de filosoffie van Deleuze en Guattari制造了一个像驱动cartografieën die ons in dit processes van navigeren en leren navigeren kunnen helpen。
{"title":"Becoming a posthuman systemic nomad. Part II: Systemic Nomads. An Ecosophy","authors":"Robert Hennik","doi":"10.28963/3.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/3.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"In the second part of the text “Becoming a posthuman systemic nomad”, I suggest ways in which systemic practitioners may become systemic nomads, reintegrating cybernetics and social constructionism and taking a new-materialist perspective on life. Systemic therapists may become “post human systemic nomads”, navigating and systemically learning in complex adaptive systems, in which we are relational responsible to all human and non-human actors in the networks that we produce and that we are produced by. Inspired by the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari I made three cartographies for us, systemic nomads, navigating complexity in multi-actor systems. Systemic practitioners (from a new-materialist perspective) can co-create better ecological worlds if we are conscious of the effects of our actions in interdependent relationships with all actors in life, when – as nomads – we display systemic sensibility or intelligence (Senge, 2006) within systems of multi-actors.\u0000 \u0000Abstract (Dutch)\u0000 \u0000In dit tweede deel van de tekst “Becoming a posthuman systemic nomad” beschrijf ik hoe systeemtherapeuten en consulenten “systemische nomaden” kunnen worden door in hun denken en doen inspiraties uit de cybernetica, het sociaal constructionisme en het nieuw-materialisme te integreren. Systeemtherapeuten en ‘systemisch’ consulenten, die “systemische nomaden” worden, navigeren en leren navigeren in complex adaptieve multi-actor systemen. Zij ervaren een ‘relationele verantwoordelijkheid’ naar zowel humane als niet-humane (dingen, dieren, planten) actoren in de netwerken waartoe zij betekenisvol bijdragen, waarvan zij om betekenisvol voort te bestaan afhankelijk zijn. “Systemische nomaden”, bewust van de inter-afhankelijkheid tussen alle humane en niet-humane deelnemers in het multi-actor netwerk, kunnen mogelijk bijdragen in de co-creatie van betere ecologisch afgestemde leefwerelden. Geïnspireerd door de filosofie van Deleuze en Guattari maakte ik drie cartografieën die ons in dit proces van navigeren en leren navigeren kunnen helpen. ","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132319466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper reflects the complexity of working therapeutically in times of social, political and economical crisis. It is not only a story about me; it is a story about how therapists use their selves, as well as the importance of self-reflexivity, relational reflexivity and transparency in our work. I present ideas about how therapists can navigate complex therapeutic encounters within a systemic framework. In this way, I hope the readers will make their own reflections alongside my own.
{"title":"Therapy in unsettling times","authors":"Marilena Karamatsouki","doi":"10.28963/2.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/2.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reflects the complexity of working therapeutically in times of social, political and economical crisis. It is not only a story about me; it is a story about how therapists use their selves, as well as the importance of self-reflexivity, relational reflexivity and transparency in our work. I present ideas about how therapists can navigate complex therapeutic encounters within a systemic framework. In this way, I hope the readers will make their own reflections alongside my own.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116820219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Inspired by watching a group of children playing freely during their summer holidays, in this essay I am drawing parallels between the activities of playing and improvisation with learning and participatory action in our relational contexts. I am looking at improvisational participatory activity as key to learning, development and growth. Through the mentioning of the four stages of competence model, I am discussing how “mathematising” expert knowledge and competence in terms of stages of advancement, evaluation measures and de-contextualised accounting systems, may weaken our abilities for intuitive, spontaneous improvisations in our relational activities and restrict learning from within the doing and development of practice knowledge.
{"title":"Dare To Play","authors":"Joanna Michopoulou","doi":"10.28963/2.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/2.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by watching a group of children playing freely during their summer holidays, in this essay I am drawing parallels between the activities of playing and improvisation with learning and participatory action in our relational contexts. I am looking at improvisational participatory activity as key to learning, development and growth. Through the mentioning of the four stages of competence model, I am discussing how “mathematising” expert knowledge and competence in terms of stages of advancement, evaluation measures and de-contextualised accounting systems, may weaken our abilities for intuitive, spontaneous improvisations in our relational activities and restrict learning from within the doing and development of practice knowledge.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124253036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Central to all that follows below is a certain vision of the world and of our knowledge of it: that both consist in activities of various kinds (Shotter, 1984; Wertsch, 1981). And also, a certain stance towards the conduct of research into such activity: that of investigating its nature from a position of active involvement in it, rather than contemplative withdrawal from it. Such a stance immediately raises questions about how the nature of the involvements in which one finds oneself placed should be best characterized. I shall claim that they are best characterized, not by reference to one's own characteristics, those of first-person actors, of 'I's', but by reference to the nature of 'you's', the second-person recipients or addressees of actor's or speaker's activities. And that a central feature of any such characterization must articulate the nature of the moral proprieties, the 'ethical logistics' of the exchanges between 'I's' and 'you's' - to do with who has responsibility for what activity in the social construction of the meanings of any communications between them. With reflections from Justine van Lawick, Jim Wilson, Sheila McNamee, Mary Gergen, John Burnham, Kenneth Gergen, Andy Lock and Ann Cunliffe.
{"title":"Social Accountability and the Social Construction of 'You'. Thirty Years On","authors":"J. Shotter, R. Utrecht","doi":"10.28963/2.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/2.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Central to all that follows below is a certain vision of the world and of our knowledge of it: that both consist in activities of various kinds (Shotter, 1984; Wertsch, 1981). And also, a certain stance towards the conduct of research into such activity: that of investigating its nature from a position of active involvement in it, rather than contemplative withdrawal from it. Such a stance immediately raises questions about how the nature of the involvements in which one finds oneself placed should be best characterized. I shall claim that they are best characterized, not by reference to one's own characteristics, those of first-person actors, of 'I's', but by reference to the nature of 'you's', the second-person recipients or addressees of actor's or speaker's activities. And that a central feature of any such characterization must articulate the nature of the moral proprieties, the 'ethical logistics' of the exchanges between 'I's' and 'you's' - to do with who has responsibility for what activity in the social construction of the meanings of any communications between them. \u0000With reflections from Justine van Lawick, Jim Wilson, Sheila McNamee, Mary Gergen, John Burnham, Kenneth Gergen, Andy Lock and Ann Cunliffe.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130520462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}