The Practice of Systemic Action Research: Igniting Systemic Change Through Participatory Action

From modern slavery to environmental breakdown, the most urgent challenges of our time demand approaches that can work with complexity, rapidly adapt and catalyse lasting change through the agency of ordinary people.

This book introduces Systemic Action Research (SAR) – a participatory methodology designed to transform “hard to shift” patterns and dynamics in systems. Having implemented more than 30 large-scale SAR programmes worldwide, the authors combine systems thinking, complexity theor...