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Seeing complexity by walking the construct
At The Tributaries Project photographs from the third water
Colloquium (Nov 20), Gary pilgrimage, I will unpack the
presented a paper entitled Seeing pilgrimage experience as a walk-
complexity by walking the through exercise in ‘seeing’
construct.” Outlining the paper, he complexity. Thereby suggesting a
writes: “One of the consistent practical means of building
problems for humans is seeing the complexity constructs. I will frame
complexity of things. Our senses this experiential process within the
have evolved to process dialogue work of Otto Scharmer’s
information in a particular way that Presencing/Theory U process and
limits us to what we can experience demonstrate how the pilgrimage
simultaneously. Because of these journey closely follows the process
biological limitations we are inclined suggested by Scharmer et al.” The
to reduce complex systems to pilgrimage, Gary wrote “brought
simplistic, atomistic and into stark clarity the damage we are
individualised views of ‘reality’ – doing to ourselves in using the eco-
seeing wholes is for us particularly systems as dumps and as
challenging. Using a slide show of unconstrained resource ‘pools.’”
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