On Compassionate Systems Change in Education - A Conversation with Dr. Mette Miriam Böll

Today’s guest has been doing amazing work in this areas alongside
Peter Senge, Daniel Goleman and colleagues at the IB, through the
Center for Systems Awareness at MIT. Dr Mette Miriam Böll is the
is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the centre, as well
as the co-founded of The MIT Systems Awareness Lab with Peter
Senge. 


Her academic background is as a biologist specialized in the
evolution of complex social systems, mammalian play behavior and
philosophy of nature. Mette has a Ph.D. in organizational
ethology and holds additional degrees in contemplative leadership
and the philosophy and history of science. 


She uses her training in these diverse areas to research how
emotions and feelings are transmitted in social relations and how
the resulting relational fields in turn shape the larger systems
human beings are parts of, with a particular focus on education.


Mette previously held a position as head of research at Metropol
University College, a teachers’ college in Copenhagen and before
that she taught neuroscience of emotions.


You can find out more about the Compassionate Systems Framework
and upcoming trainings here:
https://systemsawareness.org/introduction-to-compassionate-systems-framework-in-schools/





Social Links


LinkedIn: @mette-miriam-rakel-böll


Instagram: @centerforsystemsawareness