Essays on complexity, dynamics and what they might offer the consulting room.
Written and edited by Hanneke Feijs. We publish regularly. Guest contributions are welcome — please write to info@complexdynamics.nl.
A wilful Frisian garden of stacked rubble, built without cement and without a blueprint — and what it might gently remind us about self-organisation and the courage not to intervene.
What Scheffer's lakes can teach us about depression — and about the limits of thinking in causes.
The silent choice behind every diagnostic model — and why, for treatment, it makes all the difference.
Ergodicity, idiographic research, and what they mean for the evidence-based practice.
What changes in your work when you begin to think in terms of active processes.
On timing as a therapeutic craft — and what critical instability can teach us.
The therapeutic relationship as a coupled system — read through the lens of 1665.
On healthy mobility, and what its loss can tell us.
A short exploration of what a starling flock teaches us — and what it does not.
How a Dutch psychologist taught us that development is sometimes a leap.
What a beehive and a school of fish remind us about what works in psychotherapy.
Why change in therapy proceeds more often in jumps than we think.
A photograph of a crowd, and how one may recognise in it the idea of entropy.