Women in Systems Thinking

A Dialogue Series

Honoring the Work of Women in Systems Thinking

Women in Systems Thinking is a series of dialogues that celebrates the important contributions and work of women in systems thinking, shaping how we think about systems.

Formulated in the spirit of coordination and collaboration, this dialogue series recognizes the crucial contributions of those whose work is more about “being” and “doing” as of equal value to “thinking.”

People of all genders are encouraged to attend.

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Tuesday, March 25th

  • HELENA NORBERG-HODGE, linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement, is the founder and director of Local Futures. Based on decades of experience in indigenous cultures, in particular Ladakh and Bhutan, Helena has been promoting a big picture understanding of the foundations of human, as well as ecological wellbeing. Her work has gained her the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.”

    Helena is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, of Planet Local and Closer to Home.

  • Dr. Julia Kim is a global wellbeing and Wellbeing Economics expert, program facilitator, and researcher. She is an explorer of the terrain connecting inner transformation and broader systems change, drawing on her past career as a physician and public health researcher in Africa and Asia, Senior Policy Advisor at the United Nations (UNDP and UNICEF), Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome, and International Program Leader at the GNH Centre Bhutan. She integrates global experience in the fields of leadership development, contemplative practice, program design, research, and policy in the fields of wellbeing, wellbeing economics, global health, and sustainable development.

    Helena is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, of Planet Local and Closer to Home.

The Economics of Happiness
With Helena Norberg-Hodge and Dr. Julia Kim

Re-Imagining Our Lives in a Post-Finance World, with Janelle Orsi

What will it take to turn our economic system into a life-sustaining one? In this session, Janelle Orsi of the Sustainable Economies Law Center gives us her insights on what it’ll take to transform our economies. Plus, Janelle shares how her relationships with finance, work, and land radically shifted through systems thinking. If you think you’ve heard “out of the box,” think again!

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Overcoming Barriers to Meaningful Conversations: ConversationLabs and Systems Mapping, with Jane Lorand

Why is meaningful conversation so rare?  How did we get here? Jane Lorand guides us through a new, structured way to deepen interactions: coherence mapping. It requires that we focus on relationships and confront the truth that everything is symbiotically related to everything else. In this session, we face our fear of controversy so we no longer default to spectatorship, helping create more meaningful conversations with those around us.

Paradigm Shifts in Economics, Governance and Knowledge Systems for Systems Change, with Ashley Hodgson

Meaningful dialogue across differences is more important than ever. But, new digital tools seem to be eroding our ability to understand people who think differently from us. How can we use these digital tools for positive change? Can they help us shift paradigms in economic, governance, and knowledge systems? In this session, economist Ashley Hodgson explores the role of digital tools in fostering healthy dialogues for systems changes. 

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