# Whole-System Development - 2 Hour Pop Up 24 September, 2026

**URL:** <https://forum.futuresearch.net/t/whole-system-development-2-hour-pop-up-24-september-2026/177>\
**Category:** Future Search Forum\
**Tags:** learning-exchange, future-search, whole-system\
**Created:** [September 23, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.futuresearch.net/t/whole-system-development-2-hour-pop-up-24-september-2026/177 "2026-09-23T20:44:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichaelD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forum.futuresearch.net/michaeld/32/6_2.png) [@MichaelD](https://forum.futuresearch.net/u/MichaelD)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.futuresearch.net/t/whole-system-development-2-hour-pop-up-24-september-2026/177/1 "2026-09-23T20:44:02Z")

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Hi everyone

A quick reminder of our Pop-Up learning Exchange that is happening tomorrow on Whole-System Development. The subject is the JABS article that Sandra wrote, pulling together all the strands of Future Search and P10 / Don’t Just Do Something into a framing around the understanding that our work is fundamentally about Development – growing the system’s capacity to do what it could not do before. This is achieved through differentiation and integration – finding and bringing forward the important differences and then holding those differences while discovering Common Ground as integration . This, we know, is an on-going process of discovery and the better a group of people master these skills, the more effective they become over time.

Whole-System Development is exciting because it holds a very accessible framing of the work we do with groups that underlines that this is not about techniques but about creating and maintaining the conditions for a system to grow developmentally. Future Search is a perfect embodiment of Whole-System Development, but other approaches and ways of working can be congruent.

There are only a few spaces left for the session tomorrow. You can sign up here.

[Select tickets – Whole-System Development: The Capacity to Act Together - 2 Hour Pop-Up – Zoom](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/futuresearchnetwork/2363229)

Be sure to read the paper!!!

[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00218863261460939](https://5j8jbglx.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2F10.1177%2F00218863261460939/1/010201a0cfef8d73-f49fcad0-e6f2-45e4-8361-973412a24108-000000/s2HKKzKDcSxPvNRlc6XcS_PGm0s=473)

See you Thursday!

Michael and Sandra

Michael Donnelly, Co-Director

Sandra Janoff, PhD, Director, Future Search Network  
Emails: [sjanoff@futuresearch.net](mailto:sjanoff@futuresearch.net), [mdonnelly@futuresearch.net](mailto:mdonnelly@futuresearch.net)  
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