June 2026 · TRIP26
Why do relational public services fail?
Conference presentation.
Open →Library / Talks, teaching, and workshops
Public sessions
Talks, teaching, and workshops
A selected index of public sessions and cleaned presentation material. Repeated teaching decks are retained where they offer a distinct route into the work.
Public SCiO sessions
Public resource pages and decks only. SCiO case studies and “Cultural inquiry and complexity” are deliberately not included.
September 2025 · SysPrac25
Systemic consulting: rethinking the consultant’s role
A public SCiO workshop resource on consulting as partnership, dialogue, and co-creation.
Open →December 2024 · SCiO
Large-group processes
A detailed public deck on whole-system and participatory methods.
Open →November 2024 · SCiO
Productive conversations
Honest, constructive conversations and shared learning.
Open →2022 · SCiO
Systems leadership, change, theory and practice
A public SCiO resource on systems leadership and change.
Open →April 2021 · SCiO
Metaphor
Niki Jobson and Benjamin P Taylor on metaphor, framing, and problem-setting.
Open →January 2021 · SCiO
The four quadrants of thinking threats
A public SCiO resource on responsibility and pathologies in systems thinking.
Open →From the supplied desk
Cleaned, consistently named PDFs from the presentation material supplied for this revision.
2025
Better conversations for better realities
Learning loops to break the devil’s bargain.
Open →2025
Outcomes are the results of complex adaptive systems
A public-service outcomes presentation.
Open →2025
Viable System Model lecture
A long-form teaching deck on Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model.
Open →2025
Systems convening and boundary work
A compact set of core slides on convening across boundaries.
Open →2025
Spaces and leadership stands
A short working deck on systemic position and leadership response.
Open →2024
Positive dynamics of differentiation and integration
The correct ISSS presentation on differentiation, homogenisation, individuation, and integration.
Open →2024
Clarity practices
Five core management and leadership practices, with a focus on clarity.
Open →2023
Power, systems, and the Viable System Model
A Metaphorum presentation connecting VSM, power, and human systems dynamics.
Open →2023
A simplification of the Viable System Model
A concise four-slide introduction to organisational viability.
Open →2023
Introduction to four dynamics
Segmentation, blending, empowerment, and harmonisation.
Open →2023
Systems leadership, change, theory and practice
A substantial public presentation on systems leadership, change, theory, and convening.
Open →Working reference
Five key questions for transformation
A one-page prompt for thinking about purpose, system, activity, and learning.
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