Why this module matters

  • Helps you understand how sense-making works

    Understand how people interpret incomplete, ambiguous, and constantly changing information.

  • Introduces key schools of thought

    Learn the work of Snowden, Weick, Dervin, and Klein, and how their ideas differ.

  • Builds awareness of your own blind spots

    Challenge your narratives and spot the patterns, outliers, and absences in how you read a situation.

Learning Outcomes

A detailed breakdown of the main learning outcomes for this module

  • Understand the foundations of sense-making as an emergent process

  • Be familiar with different schools of thought, and their unique differences and similarities

  • Apply different tools for sensemaking

Practise with hands-on exercises

In this exercise kit, you will practise telling more than one story about a real situation from your own work, then work with your team to spot the patterns, outliers, and absences each version reveals, sharpening your ability to read a situation from multiple angles.

Instructor(s)

Tom Pruunsild

Lead Instructor, Sense-Making

Tom Pruunsild will be your instructor for this module. He has spent years applying systems thinking in his work with climate resilient innovation ecosystems and supporting entrepreneurs to navigate a complex world.

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