Concepts
Also refer to the Glossary page for short descriptions and translations.
The main description of our field is Naturalising sense-making and within that we have Anthro-complexity, Knowledge management and our unique understanding of the role of Narrative and the SenseMaker® software
Within this, we have specific methods associated with the following concepts
- Anthro-complexity
- Attractors
- Bounded Applicability
- Causality
- Complex adaptive systems theory
- Coherence
- Constraints
- Crews
- Cynefin Dynamics
- Decomposition
- Descriptive self-awareness
- Exaptation
- Granularity
- Habits
- Mapping
- Recombination
- Ritual
- Scaffolding
- Sense-making & Sensemaking
- See-attend-act
- Side-casting
- Tropes
- Premature convergence
- Vector theory of change
We also draw on other bodies of theory
- Aporia
- Assemblage theory
- Constructor theory
- Epistemic justice
- Inattentional blindness
- Liminality
- Material engagement theory
- OODA
- Theory of Constraints
- Wardley mapping
We are positioned in different ways against other bodies of work