Complexity, Story and Sense-making in Uncertain times

Summary

A year-end evening at the Centre for Climate Psychology built around Dave Snowden, creator of the Cynefin framework for acting amid uncertainty. He set out his core thinking; Cynefin colleagues Ellie Snowden and Anna Panagiotou explored how story shapes our sense of problems with no straight-line answers; Caroline Lucas and Peter Merrifield responded from practice.

Rationale

We don’t expect one intervention to ‘shift’ a deep disposition. Snowden, an interviewee of ours, says as much of narrative: it moves only through many small actions on everyday stories.