In this session, we will explore complexity science through the lens of an interdisciplinary gardening system called permaculture. Complexity science is a transdisciplinary effort with investigators from different disciplines working jointly to create new concepts, theories, and methods that integrate and move beyond discipline-specific approaches. In the mid-twentieth century, a diverse set of research domains such as biology (Turing), chemistry (Prigogine), meteorology (Poincare & Lorenz), and mathematics (Weaver & Mandelbrot) discovered that complexity was a new kind of science, and principles like non-linearity and sensitivity to initial conditions were found to be relevant to complex systems regardless of the domain.

Anyone who works with people - from the smallest teams to the largest organizations - works within complex adaptive systems. Daniel Walsh will introduce participants to permaculture design principles and facilitate small group discussions on how these pragmatic principles might be repurposed across domains to inform interventions and lead positive change within teams and organizations.

Bio
Daniel Walsh is a coach, consultant, and founder of nuCognitive.com and FiveWhyz.com. He specializes in Lean & Agile coaching, Product Management, and Applied Complexity Theory (e.g. Cynefin, Sense-making, Liberating Structures). He helps clients to resolve complex, intractable problems resistant to traditional methods and is an advocate for the integration of learning with work, the cultivation of cultures where people thrive, and the application of heuristics to deliver holistic solutions to customer problems.