As an educator she has developed curricula for schools in Northern California, and produced and directed award winning multimedia projects on intercultural and ecological understanding. Her work, which has been presented at the world’s top universities, is described as “offering audiences a lens through which to see the world that effects not only the way we see, but also the way we think”.  Nora’s work in facilitating cross-disciplinary discussions is part of her research into what she calls, “the ecology of the conversation”. Her speaking engagements include keynote addresses and lectures at international conferences and universities on a wide range of topics that span the fields of anti-fascism, ecology, education, the arts, family therapy, leadership and many more aspects of advocacy for living systems–she travels between conversations in different fields bringing multiple perspectives into view to reveal larger patterns.

Memberships and Awards:

Member: Club of Rome. Board Member: Tallberg Foundation, Fellow of Lindsifarne Foundation, Bateson Idea Group (BIG), Human Potential Foundation. Awards: Sustainable Thompkins Ecology Award, Winner Spokane Film Festival, Winner Santa Cruz Film Festival, Media Ecology Award.

Most recently she co-led ConnectSF, a 50-year scenario and vision process for transforming San Franciscos’s transportation and land use plans. Navigating a highly polarized context, ConnectSF resulted in focusing billions of dollars of investments, and trillions over the next few decades; and most critically, more adaptive planning capacities to deal with the uncertainties ahead.

Nicole learned her unique craft at Global Business Network (GBN), a pioneering think-tank in San Francisco, best known for its network of important future thinkers and cross-sector convening where it was not uncommon to have Amnesty International at the same table as Royal Dutch Shell. In the late 1990s, Nicole worked in venture capital in Singapore financing digital infrastructure, an early blended finance challenge. The 1997 Asian financial crisis catalyzed her vocation to improve our ability to anticipate and prepare for future disruptions.  Before that, she was a pollster, market researcher, and political speechwriter in Canada. Nicole earned a B.A and M.A. in public policy and political science from the University of British Columbia (Honours), where her research was on the politics of personal data and the unintended consequences of the network society.

Lastly, Nicole loves teaching and creating high impact learning experiences for leaders.  She has led senior leaders on many “learning journeys” or future immersion experiences in Silicon Valley, Brazil, China, Canada, Mexico, France, Egypt, and India. Nicole has taught scenario planning and systems thinking in many places including Stanford Business School; and she was Program Director at CEDEP-INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She recently served on the Board of Presidio Graduate School, which pioneered the sustainable MBA.  Nicole is a contributor of the influential Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century.

An explorer in spirit, fascinated by our diverse planet, Nicole has lived in: Singapore, Paris, and San Francisco (twice), and spent much time in the global south. Originally from Vancouver BC, her hobbies include: sailing (she raced for Canada’s national development team), hiking, reading, writing, and cooking with her husband, friends and family.  Nicole is now stretching her cognitive limits by studying Mandarin to keep up with her six-year old daughter who is fast becoming a native speaker.

Tom’s work has involved him as a designer and catalyst in hundreds of projects and board retreats across many cultures. He works with people who wish to engage with complexity and who want to learn how to move between and across different perspectives. The approach helps to integrate experience and anticipate challenges. His work encourages leaders to be present and mindful of their personal impact while sustaining a perspective on their legacy in the wider world. Tom has outlined his approach in his book leadership landscapes co-authored with dr. James Keen (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).

Currently, Tom is a board member of the Tallberg Foundation, a member of the Nyenrode Business University Corporate Governance Initiative, and director of Leading Ventures B.V. Other current assignments include work on a series of Pioneering Journeys for FMO, the Dutch Development Bank; work with the Amsterdam Institute of Finance; and an ongoing engagement with Triodos Bank.

Phillip Guddemi’s graduate work at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D., was with Roy Rappaport who used Batesonian and cybernetic ideas in studies of ritual and ecology in Oceania.  Inspired by Rappaport and Bateson’s researches, his own fieldwork in anthropology has included studies of art, ritual, and subsistence in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea (upriver from where Gregory Bateson worked in the 1930s).  As a result of this ethnographic work, he was the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship for a year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  As an anthropologist he has also worked on oral history and ethnicity in the Republic of Macedonia.

Additionally, Fanny is a member of the editorial board of the Nordic family therapy journal “Fokus på Familien” and she also writes articles for different journals.

Present areas of interest are:

• Psychiatric Diagnostics – Why has this become so important? Why is this such a big phenomenon right now in our society?
• New Public Management and its impact on the public sector. How does NPM affect the relationship between people working in public care and people who seek public healthcare.
• Science and research. What is considered good and right knowledge today in our society? Why? How is this process constructed?
• Another issue of interest is the migration flows we currently have and questions interconnected to it such as economy, ownership, history, religion, integration, radicalization, etc.

Fanny has a long experience working in the public sector. She started out as a clinical social worker and then she worked as a family therapist in an institution for adolescents with complex psychiatric concerns. She has also worked as family psychotherapist in psychiatric polyclinic for children, adolescents and their families and as a family psychotherapist at a public specialist centre for young people with eating disorders.

Fanny has also been the president of the Stockholm Family- and system oriented Therapy Association.

Homepage: www.fannymarell.se (includes links to my published articles)

Her passion for working on women’s empowerment issue was seen in her contribution to a response to CEDAW by being a member of the Committee of Empowering Muslim Women of PPIS. Now, she is a member of the Fathers Action Network. Her work with less privileged individuals and families has grown in her contributions and active involvement with the efforts by Dads for Life movement in Singapore. This has clearly portrayed her ability to work across gender and culture.

A highly reflexive therapist and clinical supervisor, Maimunah now provides both individual and group supervision to a team of social workers at PPIS using systemic ideas. Her years of experience and particular interest in cross cultural practices have made her opinions matter in the field of family therapy. Her constant network with other trainers and specialists in the family therapy field provides her with the constant up-keeping and know-how knowledge of the sector’s development. Today, she is accorded membership of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden.

The development of PPIS Family Therapy Institute is a witness to her commitment towards the growth of family therapy in Asia. This is further evident in her involvement with Asian Academy of Family Therapy based in Hong Kong where she was appointed as Honorary Member in 2015. Maimunah has edited two book entitled ‘The Rhythm of Misfits in Families” and ‘Between Spaces” written by fellow therapist at the institute. This has advance her work to South East Asia region, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia.

Although Jeff’s teaching focused on science education, curriculum theory, and qualitative research, he has taught courses on the complexity sciences in education. But, his passion over the last several years of his career was his freshman seminar, “Ecology of Mind.” This course enacted much of his interest in transcontextuality and Batesonian ideas of systems thinking and epistemology.

Presently, Jeff is focusing his research on complexity in transcontextual learning, symmathesy and epistemology, and research and warm data.

Professional Membership (past and present): American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Association for Research in Education (AERA), including the Special Interest Groups: Chaos and Complexity in Education & Subject Matter Knowledge and Conceptual Change, Canadian Society for Studies in Education (CSSE), National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Summit On Science (SOS), Complexity Sciences in Educational Research (CSER), National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE), Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), and National Science Teachers Association (NSTA).

Website: https://www.jeffbloom.net

Blog: https://blog.jeffbloom.net

Since the nineties, having observed an important cultural change in her clients, she focused her attention on ICT and its psycho-social implications and researched and published as an independent scholar. In 1999 she published a study about the psycho-social and affective dimensions of television experience, in 2003 she directed a national research project on women and ICT (National Council for Economy and Labour).

Between 2004 and 2010, Eriksen directed an interdisciplinary research program on Cultural Complexity in the New Norway (CULCOM), at the University of Oslo. In a programmatic statement, he said that a main goal was to “redraw the map of Norway” to make it fit the new transnational, complex, and globalised realities. Some of the empirical results and theoretical perspectives resulting from this research project are summed up in the book “Samfunn” (“Society”, 2010).

In 2011, Eriksen was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Under the heading “OVERHEATING”, he now directs research on three major crises: globalization—economy/finance, environment/climate, and identity/culture. This project is both comparative and interdisciplinary.

Before joining nCircle, Tim served as Vice President of Network Services for Morgan Stanley Online, building and securing a highly available online trading system that had no reported outages or security incidents while in production. While at Morgan Stanley, he also planned, built and managed multiple data centers from the ground up. Previously, Tim was a systems engineer at Cisco, advising top financial institutions on the design and architecture of their data-networking infrastructure.

Tim is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and has served as a leader in the development of various security standards including CVE, CPE, CCE and CVSS to name a few. Tim is also a highly visible security expert on social media, growing top tier press coverage for nCircle by 32 percent in 2012. He is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences held by organizations including RSA, SANS and BSides.

Website: http://recoverywithoutwalls.com 

Website: http://www.imeldamccarthy.com

He has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad on creativity and the spiritual underpinnings of art. In the 1970s he was a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola and electric violin. He has presented master classes and workshops at many conservatories and universities, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals. He has collaborated with other artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed programs melding art, music, literature, and computer technology. He has published articles in a variety of fields since 1966, and has created computer software including The World Music Menu and Visual Music Tone Painter. He lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Dr. Steier has directed or been involved in participatory action research programs in a wide variety of settings, ranging from government institutions, including NASA, to family therapy based organizations, to science centers, such as the Museum of Science and Industry (Tampa), where he has led programs exploring the relationship between institutions of informal learning and communities. At the heart of many of these programs has been a concern with the co-generation of actionable knowledge, questions of reflexivity, the balance between identity and transformation, and the ways in which new media alter the soundscape and landscape of informal public life.

Lance Strate has co-edited a number of anthologies, including two editions of Communication and Cyberspace:  Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment (1996, 2003); The Legacy of McLuhan (2005); Korzybski and… (2012); The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan (2015), and Taking Up McLuhan’s Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality (2017).

He is the recipient of the Media Ecology Association’s 2013 Walter J. Ong Award for Career Achievement in Scholarship, and their 2018 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book, for Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition. In 1998, he received the New York State Communication Association’s John F. Wilson Fellow Award in recognition for exceptional scholarship, leadership, and dedication to the field of communication. Translations of his writing have appeared in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and Quenya.

Her research interests include international law, global governance, political economy, systems thinking, big data, and algorithmic governance.

Education:

• D. Candidate, Law & Institutions, University of Turin
• M., Comparative Law, Economics and Finance, International University College of Turin
• D., International Law, UC Hastings
• A., Political Science & Philosophy, UC San Diego

Publications:

• Book Review, Fritjof Capra & Ugo Mattei, The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community, 8(2) Journal of Human Rights & the Environment 305–310 (September 2017).
• Waging Peace: Ambiguities, Contradictions, and Problems of a Jus Post Bellum Legal Framework, in Jus Post Bellum 142–160 (Carsten Stahn, Jennifer Easterday, & Jens Iverson eds., Oxford University Press, 2014).
• Note, International Law Versus the Preemptive Use of Force: Racing to Confront the Specter of a Nuclear Iran, 31 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 783–806 (Spring 2008).

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Weyler co-founded Hollyhock Educational Centre on Cortes Island in British Columbia – dedicated to environmental, personal, and professional studies – and which remains Canada’s leading educational retreat centre. He co-developed the Justonic tuning software used by innovative musicians around the world and wrote The Story of Harmony about the history of musical tuning theory. His account of the first decade of Greenpeace is available in September 2004 from Raincoast Books in the Canada and Rodale Press in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

He remains active in environmental work. He writes for magazines and newspapers, is widely reprinted on the Internet, and appears weekly on Canada’s Omni-10 News show, The Standard.

Website: http://rexweyler.com

With increasing interest being shown in the pedagogical approach of Madeley Nursery School under the current leadership team, Louise regularly contributes to publications about early education and is regularly called upon to work with others in developing practice. As a member of the UK reference organisation for Reggio Emilia’s preschools, Louise contributes towards CPD work that is run by Sightlines Initiative Ltd, a not-for-profit company committed to empowering children to learn through enquiry, expression, imagination and curiosity.