Exploring how practising a ‘whole systems’ approach to place-based work can unlock deep transformative change
This Knowledge Share session took place on Thursday 19th February 2026 • 10.00 - 11.00am
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Does understanding place-based interventions as systems change help us shift power and deliver lasting, widespread change?
10:00 - 10:05 • Arrivals & Collective Presencing
10:05 - 10:10 • Welcome - Greetings & Gratitudes
10:10 - 10:25 • Talk: Place-based systems change
10:25 - 10:35 • Group power mapping
10:35 - 10:55 • Group Discussion
10:55 - 11:00 • Session Close - Next Steps & Asks
“A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honour, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.”
–Fritof Capra
“Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships, rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots”
–Peter Senge
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Chris Blake
Chair of Trustees Black Mountain College and Lecturer in Systems Thinking.
Founding Director of The Green Valleys, supporting community responses to climate change. Lead of the Skyline project, for landscape-scale community land stewardship in Wales. founding director of The Green Valleys subsidiary TGV Hydro Limited - dedicated to support the design and development of community microhydro schemes in Wales.
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Power mapping Miro Board - click here
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