Here’s what I read in 2022…reflecting on the years’ learning
As someone who will be learning until I am no longer breathing, learning intensity is the only variable. In 2022 I chose to intensify my learning specifically in 2 areas, and to be learning most frequently in two ways — reading and learning in on-line developmental communities.
In a series of articles, of which this is the first, I’d like to share with you how I am reflecting on this experience, and what’s emerging for me now as we shift together into a new year of learning. This article forms what I hope is a double offer — to myself to hold space to reflect on my learning, and an offer to you to host yourself in a similar reflection if this one serves as a catayst to do so.
At the start of 2022, I set my intention to read broadly around systemic change, applied organisational and socially, primarily through the lens of living systems. The cadence I hope to maintain being to read 2 books a month as well as tuning into my regular podcasts, reading articles and studying a series of in-depth courses (which you can read about in the next article in this series, coming soon).
Below is the full list of books I read, and what follows is a brief review of the ‘clusters’ that I consider have emerged, including a brief syopsis of each book. I’ve been fortunate to converse with several of these…