The Shift: Leadership > Human Systems and System Stabilizers
Session Overview
The Shift: Leadership > Human Systems and System Stabilizers
15:15 - 16:15 Leadership > Human systems: The value of questioning to make change happen
In complex systems certainty is dangerous. This session explores leadership not as control but as the courage to question assumptions and challenge defaults.
16:30 - 17:30 System Stabilizers: Islands of Coherence in a Turbulent World - What Holds When Everything Else Breaks?
When systems wobble what keeps them standing? This panel highlights stabilizing forces trust buffers values and structures that prevent collapse and create resilience.
Leadership > Human systems: The value of questioning to make change happen
In complex systems, certainty is dangerous. This session explores leadership not as control, but as the courage to question assumptions, challenge defaults, and create space for real change.
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Host / Speakers
Dennis Heijn — Author, entrepreneur, eye-opener
Miranda Berkhof — Leadership Development Facilitator, Executive Coach, and Partner in Transformation
Heleen van der Pijl — Psychologist, systemic therapist, health care, consultant, lecturer and poet Centre for Consultation and Expertise
Gert Van de Vijver — too-doo
Thijs Wostyn — Yuntos
Ilse Jaques — Secret Agent of the 1%
System Stabilizers: Islands of Coherence in a Turbulent World - What Holds When Everything Else Breaks?
In a world far from equilibrium, systems driven solely by growth tend
toward collapse. Drawing on the insights of Gregory Bateson, Donella
Meadows, and Humberto Maturana, this presentation explores how
systems can regain stability through balancing feedback loops, the often-
overlooked forces that restore coherence.
We will examine how meaningful change arises not only from new
strategies or technologies, but from reconnecting lost information,
rebuilding relationships, and reinforcing reciprocity. We will also reflect
on why change so easily disappears, and how it can be sustained by
embedding it in durable patterns, narratives, and culture.
Through practical examples, conversation and interactive exercises, we
explore how to recognize and connect “islands of coherence,” and how
these small practices are already shaping a larger living pattern.
Host / Speakers
Cinthe Lemmens — Metaloog kennisnetwerk systeempraktijken
Robert van Hennik — Lorentzhuis Opleidingen
Ermelinda Hajdari — Founder, ALBAN Global, Eco-system builder, speaker
Christophe Kempkes — Athmos
Connie Allsopp — The Worlds Registrar
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