Posts by Lana Cook
Inner Development Goals and Compassionate Systems Leadership
IDGs and Compassionate Systems Leadership Join the Center team Peter Senge and Gustav Boell for an intimate 3-day Masterclass in Stockholm in October 11-13, 2025 on Compassionate Systems Leadership. This…
Read MorePeter Senge: Leading Voices in Education Podcast
In this episode of Leading Voices in Education, hosts Sundeep Chohan and Kristi Blakeway are joined by renowned systems thinker Peter Senge, who shares insights from his influential work, The…
Read MoreCombatting youth violence on Staten Island with a compassion curriculum
How 1 organization is combatting youth violence on Staten Island with a compassion curriculum By Priya Shahi | pshahi@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Bobby Digi, the man behind the Canvas Institute in…
Read MoreLove as a Radical Stance
“How do we have conversations about what is meaningful?” Executive Director Mette Boell inquires as she explores what it means to take love as a radical stance in the work…
Read MoreSystems Thinking & Pattern Recognition: Interdisciplinary Thinking
Gustav Boell, Managing Director of Youth Programs, explores how we learn to identify the common language and patterns in how systems operate. As he explains, “systems thinking allows us to…
Read MoreWhy Systems Thinking Is Important: Climate Crises
Gustav Boell, Managing Director of Youth Programs, explains why cultivating our capacity for systems thinking is important when looking at the climate crisis.
Read MoreCompassionate Systems Change in Education: Dr. Mette Miriam Boell
Dr. Mette Miriam Boell, Executive Director and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness and Research Director of the MIT Systems Awareness Lab, speaks to the challenges faced by young…
Read MoreVisiting Scholar Lecture – Dr Mette Boëll on Compassionate Systems Change in Education
University of Melbourne Faculty of Education invited Dr. Mette Miriam Boëll to deliver a Visiting Scholar Lecture in November 2024 on “Compassionate Systems Change in Education: Fostering Hope for our…
Read MoreLearning Future Podcast: Compassionate Systems with Dr. Boell
The Learning Future Podcast (Season Eight, Episode Three) hosted by Louka Parry featuring Mette Miriam Boell on “Compassionate Systems.” “What are the impacts of integrating contemplative social emotional learning and…
Read MoreAbout SDGS and Compassionate Systems
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)developed by the United Nations are central to The Center of Systems Awareness’ own mission and work. In the words of leadership author and professor Steen…
Read MoreLiving Systems Change
Dr. Mette Miriam Boell’s keynote on “Living Systems Change” at ReimaginED Conference in Melbourne, Australia in November 2025. About ReimaginED The ReimaginED Conferences enjoy a reputation for being among…
Read MoreAwareness and Social Fields: The Most Profound Change Agents
Dr. Mette Miriam Boell, co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Systems Awareness, on why awareness and our understanding to social fields are the most profound agents for…
Read MoreOn the Compassionate Systems Framework
Executive Director Dr. Mette Miriam Boell explains the origins and concept behind the Compassionate Systems Framework, and how it is constantly growing and developing through our work with partners.
Read MoreGenerative Social Fields Video
“We are human beings are a social species way before we become individuals” – Dr. Mette Miriam Rakel Böll on generative social fields and why they matter to our…
Read MoreThe reason for working with education
Executive Director Dr. Mette Miriam Böll shares the why behind our work in education.
Read MoreMay 2024 | Newsletter
Deepening our learning, connecting with nature, and holding space and care for all that is happening around the world. Connect with the Compassionate Systems community through our May 2024 |…
Read MoreFuture Learning Design Podcast: On Compassionate Systems Change in Education – A Conversation with Dr. Boell
In this episode of the Future Learning Design podcast from January 2024, Dr. Mette Miriam Boell speaks with host Tim Logan about the history of the Compassionate Systems Framework in…
Read MoreA Bridge to Equity: A Personal Journey in Transforming School Systems That Colonialism Built
By Jill Jensen Edited by Peter Senge and Art Kleiner Editor’s Introduction While not Nisga’a herself, Jill Jensen has developed a deep appreciation and love for the Nisga’a Nation and…
Read MoreIntroducing the Foundations II workshop series
We are pleased to introduce a new series of workshops on key foundational concepts in compassionate systems. This series is designed as a capacity building offering for all alumni of…
Read MoreNEWSLETTER April | 2021
Letter from the Center Dear friends, In the Northern Hemisphere from where we write, we are seeing signs of spring, with new buds and blooms emerging. We are seeing…
Read MoreSTORIES FROM THE FIELD: We’re Never Too Young for a Check-in
Jakob Tandrup Esbensen is a teacher at Maglegaardsskolen, a primary public school in Gentofte, Denmark, and a master practitioner in the Compassionate Systems program, from the class of 2019-2020. …
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