Systemic

The need 

Addressing complex (wicked) human services type problems and opportunities such as homelessness, drug and alcohol dependency, and disability entrepreneurship requires the bringing together of individuals and organisations that have very different practice approaches.  

While it is not realistic for these different stakeholders to become competent in each other’s approach to practice, it is possible to increase the alignment of their approaches and create systemic change through the facilitation of a place-based Systemic Landscape of Practice Lab. 

Systemic Landscape of Practice Labs bring together the practices of people with lived experience, service delivery organisations, and social enterprise support organisations to address human services type wicked problems and opportunities, while also increasing the economic self-determination of people with lived experience of the problem. 

Systemic Landscape of Practice Labs

Systemic Landscape of Practice Labs are informed by a range of theories and principles, including:

• Landscapes of practice

• Systemic design

• Critical systems thinking

• Systems social entrepreneurship approaches, and

• Just design

Instead of focusing on the cohesion of different approaches to practice, landscapes of practice bring together individuals and organisations from diverse practices to create the knowledgeability that is required to address human services type wicked problems and opportunities.

Knowledgeability does not imply competence in all the practices in a landscape, but rather it is the insights and relationships that a stakeholder has with other areas of practice in a landscape of practice.