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    Compassionate Systems: Navigating Crisis and Change

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    ultimo, australia
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    Join Dr. Mette Miriam Boell from the MIT Systems Awareness Lab and Center for Systems Awareness at UTS TD School! Discover how compassionate systems thinking can enhance our response to crises and transitions. Hear about the innovative work happening across UTS in this space and engage with leading experts. Don’t miss this chance to participate in an interactive workshop that promises to ignite your passion for creating positive change!

    1.00 – 2.30pm | Seminar
    2.30 – 4.00pm | Immersive workshop (optional)

    Speakers 

    Dr Mette Mirian Boell

    Dr Mette Mirian Boell


    Mette Miriam Boell is a biologist who specialises in the evolution of complex social systems, mammalian play behaviour, and the philosophy of nature. She holds a PhD in organizational ethology from Aarhus University and additional degrees in contemplative leadership and the philosophy of science. Mette co-founded the Center for Systems Awareness with Peter Senge, focusing on integrating social-emotional learning, systems thinking, and mindfulness in education.

    Associate Professor Susan Moylan-Coombs – TD School

    Associate Professor Susan Moylan-Coomb

    Susan Moylan-Coombs is UTS TD School's first Indigenous Associate Professor of Practice. Susan’s ancestry is Woolwonga and Gurindji from the Northern Territory. She has extensive experience working with First Australian communities nationally and internationally, with specific expertise in community consultation, empowerment and the facilitation of voice and storytelling. Susan previously held the positions of Executive Producer at ABC’s Indigenous Programs Unit and Head of Production at NITV, a division of SBS.

    Associate Professor Daniel Ramp – TD School Centre for Compassionate Conservation

    Associate Professor Daniel Ramp

    Daniel Ramp is a conservation biologist with an interest in landscape ecology, behavioural ecology, road ecology, and wildlife-human interactions. At the core of his research lies an adoption of the principles of compassionate conservation, an expanding international discipline that promotes the well-being of individuals in environmental decision-making. He is active in creating science that assists in policy change, and his primary goal is to incentivize the coexistence of wildlife in agricultural landscapes. Daniel is the Director of the UTS Centre for Compassionate Conservation in the TD School.

    Dr Rosalie Chapple – TD School Centre for Compassionate Conservation

    Dr Rosalie Chappie


    Rosalie Chapple is a cross-disciplinary conservation ecologist with a focus on protected areas and wildlife and habitually engages with socio-politically contentious issues such as bushfires, feral animals, dingoes, wild horses and Indian street dogs. A key inspiration is working with Indigenous peoples to reimagine how we practice conservation.

    Dr Barbara Doran – TD School

    Dr Barbara Doran

    Barbara Doran specialises in creative intelligence and transdisciplinary practice and is the course director for the UTS Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation program. Barbara specialises in identifying creative opportunities that respond to complex challenges and developing innovative strategies that can be put into action. She is an experienced speaker, mentor, educator, project innovator and artist who directs her energies to build our collective capacities to improve how we live.

    Distinguished Professor Jon Adams – UTS Health 

    Distinguished Professor Jon Adams

    Jon Adams is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the School of Public Health, UTS. Jon was recently awarded a prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholarship (Fulbright Commission, 2019-2020), and he holds a number of national and international leadership positions/appointments with leading associations such as the PHAA and APHA, as well as an Honorary Professorship in Public Health at the Imperial College London.

    Dr Monique Potts – TD School (event host)

    Dr Monique Potts


    Monique is a lecturer and researcher at the TD School with a strong interest in transdisciplinary and transformative research traversing fields of mental health, education, technology, climate, systems thinking and gender. Her PhD, titled 'Towards and understanding of resilience in the context of uncertain futures and climate disruption,' involved participatory action research with a Sydney-based high school that developed a framework of meta-competencies for learning in uncertainty. 

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