num_pages: 216
description: Building on Gregory Batesons famous book Towards an Ecology of Mind and her own film on the subject Nora Bateson here updates our thinking on systems and ecosystems applying her own insights and those of her team at IBI to education organisations complexity academia and the way that society organizes itself. She also introduces two terms:  symmathesy to describe the contextual mutual learning through interaction that takes place in living entities at larger or smaller scales  transcontextuality to describe the multiple interlayered spatial social temporal cultural ecological economic contexts in which symmathesy takes place. While she retains her fathers rigorous attention to definition observation and academic precision she also moves well beyond that frame of reference to incorporate more embodied ways of knowing and understanding. These are reflected in her essays and poems on food Christmas love honesty environmentalism and leadership. The book offers important advice and new thinking on issues like immigration systems thinking new economic and financial models future thinking and strategic planning sustainability and governmental ethics agency in organizational leadership the education system and organizational governance.
language: English
title: Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
publisher: Triarchy Press