Complexity in Education, Leadership, Research,

& Innovation

Gail J. MitchellNadine Cross

October, 2013

Complexity & Education

• How can complexity guide you as a teacher?

• What are some ideas that inspire you?

• How have you integrated complexity pedagogy?

Complexity Thinking & Dagu

Patterns of Relations speak of efficiency and compassion.

Story of Seeing the Forest

4 Patterns:

•Blinding familiarity

•Dismissive Urgency

•Illusion of Control

•Unyielding determination

As Leaders in Health Care:

How can we find ways for

humanity, complexity, and

creativity to coexist with efficiency,

machinery, and predictability?

Metaphor and

Understanding

Exploring human feelings and the images and metaphors of our everyday work and relationships can tell us how our embodied selves are experiencing situations, settings, happenings.

Questions for Thinking about Your Metaphor

• Working in my area or on my unit is like working in a _____________.

• If I had to select one word or image to describe what work is like, I would say_________.

• Thinking about the last three months, I would say work has been like _________.

Patterns of the Whole are experienced and known by the people in the organization—including persons known as patients and their close others.

Attending in the Now MomentAttending in the Now Moment

www.ppt-templates.net

Feelings

Metaphors

Images

Questions for Teams

• How do we feel about working here?

• What images come to mind when we think about our work?

• How are we with each other?

• How do our relationships impact our work?

• What do patients and families experience when they are with us?

How have traditional practices with

persons living with diabetes failed?

Why is the RNHC based in complexity thinking different?

Café Diabetica

RNHC: A Role for Complex Realities

How have traditional practices with

persons living with dementia failed?

How does complexity thinking offer a different view of

dementia?

Cracked: Illuminating New Light on

Dementia

Relationality & Dementia

What ideas resonate with you?

What connections with your own experience?

What questions come to mind?

Thank you!