Table of Contents

Frederick Steier and Jane Jorgenson: Foreword: Patterns That Connect Patterns That Connect Mary Catherine Bateson: The Double Bind: Pathology and Creativity Will McWhinney: The White Horse: A Reformulation of Bateson's Typology of Learning Frederick Steier: Exercising Frame Flexibility Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Mind the Gap: Flexibility, Epistemology and the Rhetoric of New Work Peter Harries-Jones: Understanding Ecological Aesthetics: The Challenge Of Bateson Bradford Keeney: Circular Epistemology and the Bushman Shamans: A Kalahari Challenge to the Hegemony of Narrative Douglas Flemons: May the Pattern be With You Thomas E. Malloy, Carmen Bostic St. Clair, and John Grinder: Steps to an Ecology of Emergence Kenneth N. Cissna and Rob Anderson: A Failed Dialogue? The 1975 Meeting of Gregory Bateson and Carl Rogers Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz: The Natural History Approach: A Bateson Legacy Alfonso Montuori: Gregory Bateson and the Promise of Transdisciplinarity Louis H. Kauffman: Virtual Logic -- The One and the Many Peter Harries-Jones: Gregory Bateson, Heterarchies, and the Topology of Recursion Book Reviews and Announcements

About the Author

Frederick Steier is Professor in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University, and Emeritus at the University of South Florida, where he had also served as Director of Interdisciplinary Studies Programs. His work focuses on systemic approaches to social/ecological systems, with attention to learning and whole systems design. He has led participatory action research programmes in a wide variety of settings, ranging from government institutions to science centres, such as the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), in Tampa, Florida, where he was also a Scientist-in-Residence. He is the editor of the volumes, Gregory Bateson: Essays for an ecology of ideas (2005), and Research and Reflexivity (1991), and is a Past-President of the American Society for Cybernetics. He has also had the honour of being King Olav V Fellow with the American-Scandinavian Foundation, leading to collaboration with colleagues at the University of Oslo. He received (2019) the Norbert Wiener award for lifetime achievement from the American Society for Cybernetics.