Systems thinking and systems convening for carbon capture
28 July, 2022
Advanced Workshop
About This Advanced Workshop
This workshop, facilitated by Benjamin Taylor and Laura Griffiths of Red Quadrant, will be a dynamic exploration into what systems thinking can offer in creating a more integrated, and collaborative vision within the field of carbon capture. We will focus on these main areas:
- Collaborative mapping of how the carbon capture systems functions today (building on the conference workshop - but prior attendance not required)
- Identification of our key influence points and an exchange of learning between participants.
- A deeper understanding of systems convening, how it relates to core systems thinking principles, and how that can positively impact the field of carbon capture
- An understanding of how to be more effective systems conveners, where we may have gaps, and how to build an action plan to drive more effective systems change
This workshop will be capped to 25 attendees to allow deep support and engagement.
Workshop facilitators
Speakers
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Benjamin TaylorRed QuadrantBenjamin Taylor, Managing Partner at the public sector consultant, RedQuadrant talks about his formative days using instinct to make improvements as a manager in an advice centre in Shepherd’s Bush, running prototypes in Hillingdon, whether Chief Executives are the best people to manage change, if consultants are evil and much more.
He has been working in the systems thinking / change / leadership / convening space for over 15 years, and he’s a Fellow and board member of the Cybernetics Society and Advanced Systems Practitioner with SCiO. He teaches and shares about systems | complexity | cybernetics as well as using those approaches in his work at RedQuadrant and the Public Service Transformation Academy (which he leads), and supporting organisations like Coeuraj (www.coeuraj.com)
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Laura GriffithsRed QuadrantLaura Griffiths is an Associate Consultant at RedQuadrant Ltd and in that time has fulfilled a broad range of duties related to change and transformation management, consultancy, training and support, and programme development.
Laura is a dynamic, agile facilitator with a lot of experience of online workshops, who (amongst many other things) has been supporting SCiO (www.systemspractice.org) with the development of a post-graduate level Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship.
Participants will leave with:
- a deeper understanding of systems | complexity | cybernetics and how this thinking can help our cause
- a fresh orientation to the carbon system
- a self-evaluation against the work of systems convening
- an action plan to increase leverage and impact
- new networks and shared learning
