Podcast

Intro

Hello Professor Dave Snowden. We are very lucky to have you with us here at Mayflower. We are fascinated by you and your work. We would like to introduce you today. Let's go!

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Hi Dave, it is great to meet you today. We were wondering about how you created a company like CYEFIN, and what did you or do you now want to achieve?

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Cynefin®, pronounced kuh-nev-in, is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English, but the framework bearing the name has been used to support decision making for contexts ranging from agile software development to policing (e.g. with the Occupy Movement protests which swept across the United States in late 2011).^[1] This wiki introduces the framework, and ways of using it. Start here.

Education

Our education programme is still a fledgeling in its structured form. Still, it draws from years of experience and multiple countries and institutions applying SenseMaker to learning, students, and life in educational institutions and it is growing through application and experience.

The consideration of everything the label of “education” could encompass is never-ending. It contains two areas of particular and immediate interest to us at the Centre: the process of learning and research on the one hand, and the connection with younger people and their capacities as they are growing and changing on the other. We see education as integrated into all aspects of society, not as a world apart.

Projects in this area can and have run the gamut, from schoolchildren to the ivory tower of academia. In its current iteration, the Cynefin Centre education programme works with institutions from universities to primary schools and national organisations, as well as individual researchers. It is active in making students an active part of their university’s operation, understanding their experience, and putting as many tools as possible into their hands. It is also trying to target key concerns such as anti-racism in academic institutions or the relationships between schools and communities. This programme is still in a growth stage and welcomes projects in new areas of potentially more general applicability.