by CMM Institute | Sep 16, 2025 | Commentary, Fall 2025, Newsletter
Celebrating 15 years Dear friends, Please take a walk with me down “memory lane.” It’s hard for me to believe that 15 years ago, a small group of friends sat with Barnett and me in our home to talk about the future of CMM. What came out of that meeting ultimately...
by CMM Institute | Jun 4, 2025 | Commentary, Newsletter, Summer 2025
How can we respond in a climate of cruelty? The current climate of cruelty in our social worlds can leave us frustrated and scrambling to respond in ways that embrace the ethos and praxis of CMM. My personal frustration makes it tempting, at times, to abandon the...
by CMM Institute | Jun 4, 2025 | Commentary, Newsletter, Summer 2025
Democracy for the future Sergej van Middendorp first raised the polycrisis challenge facing us in an earlier CMMI post https://cmminstitute.org/meeting-of-the-waters-at-the-relating-systems-thinking-and-design-conference/. In his recent essay on Democracy for the...
by CMM Institute | Dec 17, 2024 | Commentary, Newsletter, Winter 2024
End-of-year reflections: Kim Pearce Dear friends Our end-of-the-year letter is a bit different this year, so I hope you will indulge me. For a variety of reasons, this has been a really tough year. I have an image of us being in a small boat buffeted by strong winds...
by CMM Institute | Jun 18, 2024 | Commentary, Newsletter, Summer 2024
Inner Jazz: An allegorical tale One of the things I miss the most in my life is helping people to play guitar. I did that a lot. A Lot. And I loved it. But well, sometimes you have to stop doing something you love to make room for something you might get to love...
by CMM Institute | Dec 6, 2023 | Commentary, Newsletter, Winter 2023
End-of-year reflections Dear friends, As we end 2023 and look toward a new year, we are taking the time and opportunity for self-reflection, for assessing the what, why, and how of past efforts and for projecting into the future those as-yet-unrealized hopes and...
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