Navigate Complexity
From small daily decisions to large transformation projects,
many of us have to face and work with complexity every day.
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When everything seems to influence everything else, it can be hard to know where to start and it is easy to get stuck along the way.
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With the right skills and support, you can find ways to navigate and move with complexity, using the opportunities it provides, instead of fighting against it.​
Systems thinking helps us to navigate complexity in multiple ways:
Dialogue
Systems thinking provides a framework for dialogue, helping to reveal and connect diverse perspectives and to gain a shared understanding of a complex challenge.
Sense making
Systems thinking helps us to uncover the underlying patterns and understand why a system behaves the way it does.
Taking action
Systems thinking makes it easier to take action together and create solutions that last, by working with and embedding our goals in the patterns of the system.
Facilitation
Get support for your thinking and dialogue processes in complexity through systems mapping, visualisation, and serious play.
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Understand why your system currently behaves the way it does and take action together to create solutions that last, by working with and embedding your goals in the patterns of the system.
Get custom support to navigate your complex challenge, understand why your system behaves the way it does and implement solutions that last. Together we will determine what combination of approaches works best for your challenge.
Address your complex systemic challenge with the help of systems mapping. Together with my partners, we facilitate the entire process and guide you to develop systemic solutions.
Play with and make complexity tangible through 3D mapping or Lego Serious Play. Construct and connect perspectives and explore relationships and influence within your system in an intuitive way.
Training
Learn the fundamentals of systems thinking and how to apply them to your own complex challenges, through interactive workshops, with peers from all over the world or together with your team.
Learn how to ask the right questions to help you navigate complexity.
Learn how to apply system thinking and systems mapping in a custom training for your group or team.
Learn systems mapping in a five week live online course, with a group of maximum 15 peers.
Learn about leverage points to know where to look for and how to access places to intervene.
Coaching
Apply and further develop your systems thinking skills, with the support of an experienced practitioner.
Get personalised support for a systems mapping project you are working on alone or with your team.
About me
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Many people are starting out very motivated to make a positive contribution in the world and there are many different ways to do this. Some people work at municipalities, others start their own impact ventures. But somewhere along the way, they get stuck in complexity. My mission is to help these people to navigate complexity, so they can make their contribution.
I have always been fascinated by interconnectedness and the place where I could see it most clearly was in nature. Therefor I studied Geo-ecology and dove deeply into the interconnectedness of natural ecosystems. This gave me a strong practical foundation in systems thinking and an appreciation for complexity.
I worked on my first systems map for my master thesis and discovered the power of this visual approach to complexity.
Since 2019, I have used my systems thinking and mapping skills to support social systems change. Over the years, I have worked on projects on many different scales and topics. From supporting small impact entrepreneurs, to working with NGO's and governmental organisations, working on topics such as diversity and inclusion, the circular economy or resilient neighbouhoords.
When working with complexity, the typical consulting approach of coming in and giving advice on how to make improvements does not work. Instead, I help people to talk to each other, think for themselves and discover ways to embed their goals in the patterns of the system.
Because of this, I have also discovered my passion for teaching and coaching. I teach online through the Systems Innovation Platform and in person through custom team workshops, at events and conferences and as part of university courses.
​Irrespective of the scale or topic of the complex challenge that I am working with, there are certain questions that I ask every time, that help to reveal the patterns of the system. I have developed a set of systems thinking question cards and a workshop to share these questions with others.​​​​
​​​​Since 2022, I am the representative of the Systems Innovation Netherlands Hub and have co-organised many events to bring people together who want to contribute to systems change, to learn from and support each other.
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