Archive - Creative Systems Theory Applied

Education in the Age of AI

Rethinking What It Means to Learn

Jun 17 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

Future Signals: Learning to Notice Change Early

How Systems Thinking Can Help Us Recognize Emerging Futures

Jun 7 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

Developmental Foresight

Teaching Systems Thinking Through Social Simulation

Jun 2 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

May 2026

Why We Need to Rehearse the Future

Social Simulation, Cultural Maturity, and Practicing Adaptation Before Crisis Arrives

May 27 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

Why Leadership Fails in Complex Times

The Limits of Industrial-Age Leadership in a Systemic World

May 20 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

The Future of Family in a Low-Growth World

Love, Care, and Belonging After the Age of Expansion

May 14 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

What If Today’s Chaos Is Part of a Larger Transition?

Hope in Confusing Times

May 6 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

April 2026

We Are Drowning in Information and Starving for Wisdom

Information Overload and the Need for Integrative Meta-Perspective

Apr 27 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

Climate Change Fatigue and the Wisdom of Limits

Why We Know So Much — and Still Struggle to Act

Apr 19 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

From Identity Politics to Whole-Person Identity

From Division to Whole-Person Identity

Apr 11 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

March 2026

Why the Future of Work Will Depend on More Than Intelligence

AI, Multiple Intelligences, and the Skills We Don’t Yet Know We Need

Mar 30 • Charles M. Johnston, MD

Why Modern Love Feels Both Liberating and Impossible

Loneliness, Choice, and the Evolution of Intimacy

Mar 23 • Charles M. Johnston, MD