CodeCrafts | Crafting Combinations: A Hexi Approach to Complex Challenges

What is it?

Have you been working with complex challenges and methods for a long time and want to add something new to your toolkit? New to complexity and looking for a place to start? This in-person workshop will cover the use of the Hexi kits in facilitation sessions through an introduction to the new framework from Dave Snowden, the creator of Cynefin.

Along the way, we will share specific principles, processes and practices that you can apply when utilising the methods and packs in workshops or planning sessions. This approach allows you to combine pragmatism with vision, looking towards the future while firmly grounded in the capacities of the present. Together, we will explore questions such as:

What can I change and manage in a complex environment?

What do I do when simple goals don’t work?

How do I plan in and for uncertainty?

How do I combine the grand vision with the day-to-day?

This prepares you to start working with and experimenting with the kits in workshops with clients and communities, refining your approach and skills.

Please note: We cannot cover all Methods featured in a Hexi kit in-depth in an introductory training – while this training offers a high-level introduction, specific Methods may require additional training or mentoring to implement.

Anna Panagiotou

Anna is a programme lead, researcher, and consultant for the Cynefin Co. She has been working with Dave Snowden and the organisation for more than four years, starting from training coordination and moving to working with clients, members, and programmes. There, she brings a perspective informed by materiality, archaeology, and her academic background to the theory and practice of complexity.

Anna leads the Climate Change and co-manages the Education programmes. Alongside program development and supporting clients in the application of tools and methods appropriate to human complexity, she provides training and supports the development of new theory and methods. She has an MA in Egyptian Archaeology and a PhD in Mediterranean Archaeology from UCL. She is a greedily omnivorous reader who is interested in everything and tends to change location every couple of years.