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Trying to change complex systems is best done with a delicate touch. The metaphor of "dancing" with a system captures this quite nicely.

I find myself recommending this article in multiple situations and settings. It is on almost every syllabus I create regardless of the stated intent of the course. It is an excellent entry point into systems thinking and a cribsheet that anyone hoping to improve organizations and systems ought to have handy

Transition Design brings together two global memes. First, the idea that entire societies must transition toward more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures and second, that these transitions will require intentional, systems-level change. We see evidence of these memes in the large number of transition-related initiatives springing up around the world, and the rise in the number of tools and knowledge sets aimed at understanding complex systems and systems problems.

Whether you like Facebook or not, it's a major major force. What they do has consequences for who we are as homo sapiens.

Nondominium enables a new whole-system approach to development of material resources which enables sustainable outcomes of resilience, self-sufficiency and independence.

Have look at the unlinked / linked reference system in Roam

This video by Stephen Downes looks at change and technology during the pandemic and after, asking what it is we want to get from our educational systems, and what that might look like in the future. Lecture, Apr 28, 2020.

" adult VR event."

this podcast explores the history and power of addressing systems, both physical and virtual/abstract

Howard Rheingold curated this, could be important for metacaugs and peeragogy

A thesis, Howard sent me the document thinking it would be especially relevant for metacaugs