Experience a radical new approach to tackling today’s most pressing challenges.

This book is your guide to decoding complexity through the art of Sensing Journeys, a powerful method to spark meaningful insights, nurture connection, and foster bold, impactful change.

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Take inspiration from real-world case stories, including a cancer diagnosis, investment decisions, a creative block, and organizational paralysis.

Navigating the complexity in our lives is an elusive art form. While we acknowledge its increasing importance today, the how remains somewhat of a mystery. What do you actually ‘do’ when you navigate complexity? And what practices can guide you through it?

This book on systems sensing demystifies one core practice embraced by people working in and with complexity: the Sensing Journey method. It presents 20 diverse case stories, each with details on the setup, application, key learnings, and benefits of the practice in specific contexts, as well as tips for trying it on your own. It brings together the experiences of a global range of practitioners who engage wholeheartedly with complex and challenging issues, to enable greater empowerment and coherence.

Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or a beginner, this book is an invitation to lean into the unknown and cultivate the artistry of working with our wider ways of knowing to feel our way forward.  Learn how to sense a system for meaningful outcomes—from enhancing clarity and confidence, to nurturing trust and relationships, to inspiring creativity and possibility.

Inside the book

Case stories + visual maps

Personal and systemic applications covering areas from healthcare to investment to everyday soul searching. 

Cartographic guides illustrate each of the 20 case stories, which include essentials of the practice, tips, benefits, and key learnings.

Tips for the practice 

Tips and variations to try it on your own. For example, “A Well-crafted Guiding Question.”

Embodied intelligence

Articulation of key terms, including capacities and wider ways of knowing that are cultivated in the practice.

Praise

 “How do we best navigate uncharted territory in social change that runs aground? How do we collectively stay present? ‘Systems sensing’ brings forth practices informed by complexity and systems thinking, adding an embodied and intuitive approach. In excavating at the border between conscious and subconscious, and testing these intuitions together, we get to bring more participative practices to all social institutions. Having tried it, I am a fan of Luea’s and Zam’s work!”

—Hilary Bradbury, Ph.D,

Editor-in-Chief Action Research Journal, Director Foundation AR+

“Luea and Zam of Collective Transitions are at the forefront of the emerging field of ‘systems sensing,’ offering rich theory and practical tools to help us tap into the deep wisdom of the systems we are embedded in, guiding us through the dizzying complexity of the modern world.”

—Peter Limberg, The Stoa

“This book tries to articulate—through explanation, cases, and drawings— what ‘systems sensing’ is and what it can do, as we are all trying to navigate the complexities of our time. It is rare in its kind and does an excellent job in showing the rich diversity of ‘problems’ where this approach can be used and leads to more clarity.”

— Ria Baeck, Collective Presencing

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