Systems Sensing and Sensemaking

Build systemic intelligence and discover hidden patterns

In complexity, insight emerges not from control, but from connection. Our Systems Sensing & Sensemaking approach helps organizations and initiatives see with fresh eyes what’s truly needed and act in ways that are adaptive, ethical, and alive.

Today’s systems are too complex to be solved through top-down strategies or linear analysis. What’s needed is a deeper way of knowing, listening, and acting - one that honours the messiness of real life and activates the collective intelligence already present in your system.

Our approach

Rooted in complexity science, adult development, and embodied systems thinking, our method combines:

  • Gathering real-world micro-narratives from across your ecosystem. People self-interpret their stories, revealing rich, pattern-based data that is quantitative, qualitative, and contextual.

  • Visual tools (like Ecologies World) to map relationships, roles, flows, and constraints, making the invisible visible and the system shareable.

  • We host spaces of generative listening and reflective dialogue, where insight doesn’t come from problem-solving but from co-sensing and presencing what is trying to emerge.

  • We blend ethnographic storytelling with structured data and simple rules of interaction to help you move from raw input to actionable insight, without collapsing complexity.

    • A living picture of your system as it is—messy, human, and full of possibility

    • Stakeholder engagement that builds trust, not just feedback loops

    • Data that informs action without reducing nuance

    • Strategic foresight grounded in lived experience

    • A more coherent, responsive, and relational approach to change

  • We work with leaders, networks, and learning ecosystems in health, climate, governance, and beyond; anywhere that complexity is the norm and relational intelligence is a strategic asset.

    If you're seeking not just answers but better questions, not just solutions but attunement to what’s possible, we’re here to walk with you.