Diverse Contexts
Context
Every context is unique. We are all embedded in a unique institutional dynamic, a social fabric which constrains or enables us to engage in purposeful action to bring about positive social change. Although it is true that we bring a strong history of experience of systemic inquiry to our partnership with you, Peripeteia does not follow a travelled rationality, or replicate institutional blueprints to social or systemic innovation, with lessons applied, distilled from elsewhere. We give emphasis to the particular, not the general, where we ensure that the political, relational and substantive will assert itself over the technical, formal and objective.

Collaborative and Inclusive Governance provides a novel pathway through which governments can engage with a wealth of systemic social and environmental issues, enacted through a fabric of stakeholders in the public and private sphere of life.
Governments
Governments
Collaborative and Inclusive Governance provides a novel pathway through which governments can engage with a wealth of systemic social and environmental issues, enacted through a fabric of stakeholders in the public and private sphere of life. Collaborative and Inclusive Governance acts also as catalyst for engaged citizenship, much needed to face systemic issues. Whether fulfilling our solidarity by providing people, escaping from conflict and oppression a new home and life, the need for gradual re-configuring economic and social institutions, required to substantially reduce our environmental footprint and transition towards health preservation as opposed to health care, or facilitating access to innovative, high quality education to all layers of our society, freeing up untapped, creative and productive capacity, facilitate sectorial transition and strengthening of our social security. These are a few, among a rich plethora of interconnected issues, which demands collaborative and inclusive policy formulation and implementation, with novel ways of communication, organization and structuration required, between governments and its citizens, between regional and national authorities, the profit and none-profit sector.
Our systemic inquiry circle enriches your capacity for:
- Making sense of interdependent, systemic issues
- Identifying existing structural, institutional configurations
- Analyzing current structural and institutional dynamics causing social, environmental unintended consequences
- Community practice building for policy dialogue
- Prospecting on institutional feasibility and social viability
- Co-create institutional hypotheses
- Collaborative institutional modelling
- Adaptive, decentralized and iterative implementation
- Continuous improvement and sustained learning
These are just some aspects of our engagements with governments. We are happy to have a more in-depth dialogue with you, about your specific challenges and potential pathways for our collaboration.

Upward and downward accountability, with rise of evidence, performance-based measures, puts increasing pressure on NGOs, operating in complex and more unstable environments, while the same time being confronted with …
NGOs
NGOs
Upward and downward accountability, with rise of evidence, performance-based measures, puts increasing pressure on NGOs, operating in complex and more unstable environments, while the same time being confronted with a densely populated funding space and calls from donors for intra-inter sectoral cooperation. Although shifts from enactment of traditional project cycles and log frames towards more adaptive management of projects remain rather modest, the gradual increase in pressure to provide broad as well as in depth ex-ante impact assessments and ex-post comprehensive evaluations is well pronounce. Partnering with a wealth of new private and public sector actors, emerges as key requirements placed on NGOs by many donors, which aim for more systemic or spill-over effects of projects or programs e.g. health, education and economy, as opposed to focus on isolated, but apparently interrelated fields. Value for funding, underpinned by, as rigorous perceived scientific methods, such as randomized control trials (RCT) is one, underlying paradigm shift, which is often in stark contrast to the values and norms held by NGOs, which rather see the intangible gains and values realised by their actions, and the slow and evolutionary change in local institutions required for systemic change.
Our systemic inquiry circle enriches your capacity for:
- Complimentary sensing of interrelationships, multiple- contrasting perspectives and unequal power relations throughout the project cycle
- Strengthening of participatory based projects through systemic inquiry, surfacing multiple-contrasting perspectives and unequal power relations
- Applying systems thinking methodologies to enact adaptive management
- Systemic, critical evaluation and monitoring of projects as part of continuous improvement and intra-interorganisational learning cycles
- Surfacing of broader potential unintended consequences and potential pull-through and positive spill-over effects via projects or long-term programs
- Analysing existing institutional configurations for informed decision for new and sustained cooperative inter-organisation relationships
- Co-creation, design of novel and resilient structures for cooperative inter-organisational relationships
- Designing and management of community of systems practice to pretotype social and environmental projects
These are just some aspects of our engagements with NGOs. We are happy to have a more in-depth dialogue with you, about your specific challenges and potential pathways for our collaboration.

Universities and Continuing Education providers play a key role within the Sustainble Development Goals. Understanding of inderdepdence and interrelationships is as important as the …
Education
Corporations
Universities and Continuing Education providers play a key role within the Sustainble Development Goals. Understanding of inderdepdence and interrelationships is as important as the capacity to develop and implement together strategies for systemic change. We see a strong interest from progressive universities and continuous education providers to integrate systems thinking in their curriculum, or as an innovative elective to their established and new programs. Systems thinking has already passed the boundaries of the engineering or psychology discipline, thanks to the pluralism of various methodologies, and it is increasingly recognized as invaluable to the social science and humanities. Especially programs which place equal emphasis on the practice of the field of study such as NGO Management, Development Management, Humanitarian Relief or Environmental Management, just to name a few, not only see systems thinking as important, but the practical and contextualised application of systems thinking for strategic action is judged being a critical capacity for current or aspiring managers in various fields of professional practice.
We act as partner to Universities and Continuing Education providers, who either wish to integrate applied systems thinking as overlay to their existing programs, or as fully dedicated innovative module in their existing or new, experimental programs. Dependent on the degree of integration and duration of the program, the various philosophical roots underlying the various systems methodologies will be explored, with sound understanding of systems theory and contextualised systems practice. Special emphasis is given to the practice, the various individual contexts, which requires strategy development for systemic change, but equally important collaborative implementation and continuous improvements. The capacity for systems thinking and action is thus developed as individual and collective capacity, with the necessary skills to create and manage cooperative intra-interorganizational relationships.

National and Multi-National Enterprises play an increasingly important role in efforts to improve the well-being of our society and our planets.
Corporations
Corporations
National and Multi-National Enterprises play an increasingly important role in efforts to improve the well-being of our society and our planet. Many enterprises have become to understand their role as corporate citizens and have therefore established foundations or developed partnerships with Donors and NGOs to enact their social responsibility. Although, some have a long track record of balancing their corporate agenda with their social mission, most enterprises are relatively new in their roles as development actors, operating very much in less-familiar territory, while contributing to sustainable development goals. These places great importance on the paramount task of mutual learning. On the one hand, learning about systemic issues, learning together with, and about their beneficiaries, and with development partners to understand deeper and wide-ranging causes of social or environmental challenges. On the other hand, it demands learning together with donors and governments, making sense of new institutional configurations, and to negotiate inter-sectoral partnership for effective coordination and due process.
Our systemic inquiry circle enriches your capacity for:
- Sensing interrelationships and interdependence between actors and issues in the sphere of social development and environmental sustainability
- Sensing and mapping of multiple-contrasting perspectives on systemic issues, competing goals, norm and interests
- Surfacing and mapping unequal power relations and institutional contradictions in various project contexts
- Surfacing of broader potential unintended consequences and potential pull-through, positive spill-over effects via projects or long-term programs
- Systemic inquiry, Co-Inquiry in project planning, design, implementation and evaluation
- Designing and management of community of systems practice to pretotype social and environmental projects
- Analysing existing institutional configurations for informed decision for new and sustained cooperative inter-organisation relationships
- Co-creation, design of novel and resilient structures for cooperative inter-organisational relationships
- Institutionalise systems think and practice as sustained learning
These are just some aspects of our engagements with corporations. We are happy to have a more in-depth dialogue with you, about your specific challenges and potential pathways for our collaboration.