Becoming a Compassionate System: Sharing Our Stories

On Friday 15 August, leaders from learning communities across LESNW shared their stories of personal and organisational growth and development using Compassionate Systems tools and practices enabling our learning communities to Flourish. Stories included focus on growing leadership capabilities and a deep listening culture with primary children, growing a one college approach across various stakeholder groups, the research informing these approaches, exploring what conditions are needed to enable our learning communities to be Free to Flourish, the challenges and benefits of becoming a ‘compassionate’ person and more.  

The stories were diverse but shared common threads such as the importance of grounding and check-ins to grow self-awareness and the conditions for a generative social field. The other common insight was the use of the compassionate systems tools to enable and unearth thinking around complex issues bringing a systems awareness perspective rather than a quick fix.  

The participants in this group all commented on the value of time and space to collaborate in a supportive non-judgemental environment.