Kerry is passionate about helping individuals, communities and organizations acquire the systems skills to make better informed choices and learn by doing. She helps them to discover and map the systems they care about, identify the leverage points in those systems and design experiments to test their understanding. She supports them on the never-ending journey to understand their worlds and help make them better places.
She believes that the ability to create causal loop diagrams is foundational to building shared understanding and an agreed way forward. She refers to these diagrams as “cave drawings for the 21st century”.
She believes that until the assumptions hidden in our day to day conversations are exposed and explored in this way we have no solid basis for understanding each other. She refers to these conversations over diagrams as “campfire conversations” and the diagrams which support these conversations as “cave drawings”.
Kerry is currently supporting Rogue Community Health (OR, USA), the University of Leeds (UK) and the Youth Sports Trust (UK) on their quest to see systems and become high performing systems. Recently she has led “See the Systems” programs for schools in Oregon and California and run training workshops for TEAGASC and the Veterinary Officers Association in Ireland.
Together with her partner, Marc Pierson (MD), she runs an initiative called Relocalize Creativity (RC). This is about supporting community activists with systems tools to support regeneration and reclamation of local agency. The program also encourages the development of children to be the systems activists of the future. We are currently supporting Regenerate Sonora in Superior, AZ, USA to develop their capacity.
Kerry believes in the power of curiosity and discovery. We are all unique individuals with our own unique talents and creativity to bring to the world. When we connect our talents, we are capable of unlocking huge creativity and achieving incredible things together. This means that we must relearn to connect with each other. Strong relationships are vital to allowing coherent, harmonious systems.