Event Calendar

Welcome to Systems Change Finland's fourth board meeting of 2021!

The meeting is open to anyone interested in steering the association.

Zoom-link: https://laurea.zoom.us/j/69178878779

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16C7b7f3RJfjopxcgcxVNSRGEwL2l2mMzrK0xg83hbU0/edit?usp=sharing

Zoom-link: https://laurea.zoom.us/j/64121968642
Facebook-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3390721357696804

The Toolshed meetup is Systems Change Finland’s event series which focuses on the tools and approaches that can be used in Systems Thinking and Systems Change. April’s meetup is organized in association with our global friends in the Systems Innovation community (https://systemsinnovation.io/). 

In the 20.4.2021 meetup we’ll get an introduction to an integrated approach to sustainability from Tom Bosschaert, Founder and Director of Except Integrated Sustainability (http://www.except.nl/en/).
Except’s work is based on the Symbiosis in Development (http://thinksid.org/) systems-thinking framework, which encompasses domains such as the circular and bio-based economy, social justice, iterative design and crowd-based development. Except brings together people from across sectors to deliver concepts and strategies that are realistic and feasible to inspire cities, companies, governance and industry to create a just and resilient society.

For an example on Except work, you can check out what they’ve done with Serenity Farms, a sustainable desert food system: http://www.except.nl/en/projects/641-serenity-farms

Speaker

Tom Bosschaert, Founder and Director of Except Integrated Sustainability

As a systems thinker, sustainability expert, designer and entrepreneur, Tom has been pioneering sustainable development with a passion for the past two decades. He believes that sustainability is not the property of things, but the property of a dynamic system. He has put this theory into practice since the age of 19 with his consulting and innovation agency Except, working on over 800 projects worldwide towards a more sustainable future.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tombosschaert/
https://twitter.com/Tom_Bosschaert

Reading club Thu April 29, 17-18.30 note the new date
https://zoom.us/j/91595648766?pwd=SlloMGdobVFOa1cvdkY4VDF2T3EzQT09
Meeting ID: 915 9564 8766
Passcode: 021907

What this is: informal and lightly facilitated discussion on a pre-selected reading. The meeting is walking-compatible. Based on popular demand, the reading for the second session is:  Building Better Systems for System innovation from Rockwool foundation 

Only rule of the reading club: read the reading before the session 

Board meeting for accepting new members before the spring general meeting.

Systems Change Finland - Systeeminen muutos Suomi ry organizes two yearly general meetings for its members to review and have a say on what the association has been doing and what we should do. Members of the association are invited to our Spring general meeting on Mon 10.5.2021 at 17:30 (Finnish time, EEST UTC+3). 

The main points of the Spring general meeting is to look back and review what we did in 2020 and how we used the association's resources. We (the board) would also be keen on using the opportunity to engage you, our members, in what we might do in the future. 

You can join the meeting using this Zoom-link: https://laurea.zoom.us/j/66566796617

To get an overview of what we did in 2020, check out the annual review for 2020 that our former chairperson Tero Hokkanen and former vice-chairperson Iina Santamäki have prepared: 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H4TKN--J__GEhHmBFc-YqGdKFVEoH3nR6stZWATBXt4/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the official agenda of the meeting including links to the main materials that members are invited to review: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVMxFRkRAqMbwzKgYlTLLbQ7WD5wB2Rt7N4Npy3vGlg/edit?usp=sharing

If you have additional issues not listed on the agenda you feel the association should make a decision about or discuss, contact the association's chairperson Mikael Seppälä (firstname@systemschange.fi) at least eight (8) days before the meeting and we can figure it out. 

After the official meeting we will have an ideation session regarding the future of the association! 

How to become a member?

If you aren't a member of the association for 2021 yet, you can get your membership here: https://systemschange.fi/membership

Membership for 2021 is also included in tickets priced over 30e to the Converge & Emerge Open Space gathering on Fri 14.5.2021: https://systemschange.fi/openspace