Introduction to SenseMaker® and Estuarine Mapping

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Confirmed participants:

• Jesper Toft
• Nikolaj Sørensen
• Henrik Knoll
• Henrik Bredsdorff
• Thomas René Hansen
• Preben Arentoft
• Paweł Olchowik
• Bo Frese
• Hans Marius Rasmussen
• Lykke Zangenberg
• Signe
• Thomas Elkjær
• ...

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Beth Smith of Dave Snowden's Cynefin Co will come by and actively introduce us to the Estuarine Mapping technique and their SenseMaker® tool.

In this meet up we will explore a mix of some of the thinking and theory behind the two methods (Estuarine Mapping and SenseMaker®) as well as you getting the chance to experience them for yourselves, whilst we can't promise that you will be an expert after just 2 hours, you should come away with some new perspective about how to interact and manage complex systems, and to be able to identify when these methods may be useful in your own practice.

SenseMaker®
SenseMaker® is a pioneering way to gather both qualitative and quantitative data about people’s observations and experiences.What’s remarkable is that the people taking part analyse their own responses. So, we get authentic analyses of real experiences, rather than external interpretations of them.

Results are demonstrated using simple graphics that make it easy to spot patterns and themes - even when there is a high quantity of responses.This perspective can reveal things we might, ordinarily, have missed. Or perhaps not even looked for.
The result? We can make sense of what’s really happening and determine the next steps or actions.

Estuarine Mapping
Estuarine Mapping is a new framework that lets us work with a complex situation we want to do something about.

Just as with the movement of the tide in an estuary, complex problems are non-linear, multi-directional and have multiple effects. So they can't be solved by tracing an issue back to their root cause, as with simple problems. Instead we work with the disposition of a system to make desirable outcomes more likely and undesirable outcomes less so.

At its heart, Estuarine Mapping uses a method of identifying what are the things that shape and influence a system or ‘modulators’. These are the small components of an entangled, complex system. Micro interventions at this level are not only more likely to happen, they can have surprisingly significant effects on a grand scale. In fact, they can affect whether the problem exists in the way we think it does.

To help us decide which of these micro interventions are worth making, Estuarine Mapping gets us to plot the modulators on a chart , mapping them against how much energy they will require and how much time they will take. The result is a clear picture of where we are and what we want to change, with a portfolio of actions that enable the strategy to become reality.