Papers and Presentations gives a complete list of all papers and
articles produced, grouped by subject, with abstracts and links
to full text. This can also be accessed by the 'Resources' button in the Meridian Task Bar.
A full list of titles in date order, indicating subject sections but without hyperlinks is also available.
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| 2019 June |
Meridian Midsummer Matrix |
| 2019 Apr |
Circulation of paper "Breaking the Brexit log-jam" to all Members of Parliament |
| 2019 Feb |
Workshop for Extinction Rebellion "Shadows of Extinction" |
| 2017 Oct |
Humanistic Psychology Conference and Humanistic Psychology Book launch. D.Wasdell chapter "Frontiers of a Pardigm Shift: Transforming Humanistic
Psychology for Tomorrow's World" |
| 2017 Aug |
One-day Seminar/workshop at Meridian House |
| 2017 Mar |
Video presentation to the Arcosanti Community in Phoenix "A Matter of Great Sensitivity" |
| 2015 Dec |
Series of presentations and interviews broadcast on Cambridge TV "Après Paris - Exploring the Shadow of COP21" |
| 2015 Nov |
Interview with Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock in Canada |
| 2015 Sept |
Climate Dynamics: Facing the Harsh Realities of Now - see www.apollo-gaia.org |
| 2014 Oct |
"Beyond the Summit" Sensitivity, Target Temperature & the Carbon Budget - see www.apollo-gaia.org |
| 2014 July |
Workshop on Catalysis of a Global Phase-Change in Human Behaviour |
| 2014 Mar |
Presentation to the Climate Challenge Conference, Birmingham UK |
| 2014 Feb |
Basis for a Carbon Budget? A Critical Evaluation of the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC AR5 WG1 - see www.apollo-gaia.org |
| 2013 Nov |
Presentation to the International Centre for Earth Simulation |
| 2013 Sep |
Kenynote Presentation to the Club of Rome "Sensitivity, Non-Linearity & Self-Amplification in the Global
Climate System" see www.apollo-gaia.org |
| 2013 Apr |
Arctic Dynamics - 2-part video presentation - see www.apollo-gaia.org |
| 2012 Sep |
Presentation on Feedback Dynamics and Sensitivity to Twycross Zoo |
| 2012 July |
Presentation on 'Feedback Dynamics, Sensitivity and Runaway Conditions in the Global Climate System' to
4th Global Conference on Global Warming, Istanbul |
| 2012 Apr |
Presentation to Tomorrow's Global Company conference 'The Future We Want - 2050' on Climate Sensitivity |
| 2011 Dec |
Partial Facilitation of Rights and Humanity Conference in Liverpool |
| 2011 Nov |
Presentation to International Centre for Earth Simulation workshop in Geneva |
| 2011 Sep |
Presentation 'Setting the Scene' to the Rights and Humanity Conference, Liverpool. Presentation also on 'Cellular Growth' to
the Rights and Humanity Conference |
| 2011 July |
Presentation on 'Climate Sensitivity: Amplification of the Anthropogenic Disturbance of the Climate System' to 3rd Global Conference on Global Warming, Lisbon |
| 2011 May |
Keynote speaker to the Disaster Prevention and Reduction, and Post-Disaster Reconstruction Conference in Deyang, China |
| 2011 Mar |
Briefing and Workshop to Centre for Sustainable Environment Management on the Dynamics of Climate Change |
| 2011 Jan |
Publication of 'The Dynamics of Climate Change: A Case Study in Organisational Learning' in 'The Learning Organisation', Volume 18, Issue 1
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| 2010 Dec |
Presentation on Climate Sensitivity at House of Commons private function |
| 2010 Dec |
Radio Interview on Radioshock Canada about the Royal Society publication of the 4 degrees meeting |
| 2010 Oct |
'Climate Dynamics in Science and Society' presentation to Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University |
| 2010 Apr |
'Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change' presentation to launch of Transition Towns Lancaster |
| 2010 Jan | Seminar on
'Climate Change and Social Response' to Complexity Group of the London School
of Economics and Political Science |
| 2009 Oct | Presentation to
seminar in the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on
'Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration of Climate Change' |
| 2009 Oct |
Scoping workshop on Runaway Climate Change at Meridian House |
| 2009 July | Circulated Apollo-Gaia Interim Scientific Report to participants of
the World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford |
| 2009 June | Global System Dynamics and Policies - Workpackage 4 Detailed Scientific Report
of 'Global System Dynamics and Policies: Simulation and Visualisation
Technologies' (Seventh Framework Programme Theme 3 of the European Union) |
| 2009 May |
'Climate Change Goes Critical: Feedback Dynamics, Tipping Points and the Onset of Runaway Climate Change' to
Transition Towns Conference |
| 2009 April | Seminar for
Generation Management, London |
| 2009 Mar | Presentation to the International Alliance
of Research Universities (IARU) Scientific Congress 'Climate Change: Global
Risks, Challenges and Decisions' on Feedback Dynamics and Climate Change in
the Bella Centre, Copenhagen |
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2009 Feb | Briefing paper to the Rights and Humanity Emergency Congress
as preparation for the G20 meeting to be held in London later in the year. |
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2009 Jan | Briefing paper to the joint meeting of the Club of
Rome and Globe International in the Palace of Westminster, as preparation for the secretariat of the G8+5 to be held later in the year. |
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2008 Dec | Presentation to the European Climate Forum/Global System Dynamics
joint congress in Bilbao, Spain on 'Beyond the Tipping Point? Second and third order feedback dynamics in the close-coupled
human/climate global system'. |
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2008 Nov | Presentation on Feedback Dynamics and the Acceleration
of Climate Change to the International Conference organised by the Club of Rome in Switzerland entitled 'Managing the
Interconnected Challenges of Climate Change, Energy Security and Water'. |
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2008 July | Launch of the "Global System Dynamics and
Policies: Simulation and Visualisation Technologies" (Seventh Framework Programme
Theme 3 of the European Union), London. Apollo-Gaia is a Partner Institute. |
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2008 June | Tällberg Forum, preceded by the Scientific
Workshop "Steering Away from Catastrophic Thresholds: Planetary Boundaries for Human Survival",
Tällberg, Sweden |
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2008 May | "Feedback Dynamics and Accelerating Climate Change", NOAH AGM, Oxford |
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2008 Apr | Will Howard Memorial Lecture, Feasta, Dublin, Ireland |
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2008 Apr | Presentation on "Global System Dynamics: Towards a Conceptual
Overview", at the European Climate Forum Annual Conference, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Spain |
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2008 March | Briefing on Climate Dynamics to the Global Leaders Academy, London |
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2008 Feb | Breakfast briefing on "Accelerated Global Warming" to the Tomorrow's Global Company, London |
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2008 Jan/Feb | Speaker on "Feedback Dynamics in Climate Change"
at II Jornada sobre riesgos naturals, Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
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2007 Nov | Launch of the Apollo-Gaia project web-site
at www.apollo-gaia.org, containing the Background and Development of the Project, and
links to pages containing access to part of 'Planet Earth We Have A Problem'. |
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2007 Nov | Launch of 'Planet Earth We Have A Problem' in
Committee Room of the House of Commons. |
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2007 Nov | Major presentation to 'The Sky's The
Limit' conference and launch of 'Planet Earth We Have A Problem' [the publication of the
Westminster Briefing held in June and published jointly by the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change
Group]. Following the presentation, several interviews including one for a documentary being
produced by Estonian TV. Also interview on Sky TV lunchtime news. |
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2007 Sept | Speaker at Club of Rome,
Annual Conference, Madrid. |
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2007 Sept | Speaker at Sustainable Cities
Conference, Madrid |
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2007 Sept | Speaker at 'Climate Change: What Next?' Conference
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2007 June | Westminster Presentation on
Climate Feedback Dynamics, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change,
to coincide with the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm. |
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2007 May | Climate Stabilisation paper to
EFRA Select Committee of the UK House of Commons. |
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2007 Mar. | Feedback Dynamics: Climate Science
Update, for Al Gore training event. |
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2007 Feb. | Analysis of political oppression of the
IPCC text. |
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2006 Dec. | Participation in briefing seminar for Faculty of the Prince of Wales' Business and
Environment Programme. |
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2006 Sept. | Aurelio Peccei lecture to the
European Chapter of the Club of Rome, including a revised outline of the "Apollo-Gaia" project |
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2006 Sept. | Brief outline of "Beyond the Tipping Point"
together with the first outline of the "Apollo-Gaia Project" to
the Washington Summit on Climate Stabilisation, Washington DC. Presentations on
"Beyond the Tipping Point" and "Apollo-Gaia Project" to the Arlington Institute in
Arlington, Virginia. |
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2006 Aug. | Presentation of "Beyond the Tipping Point" to
seminar for Director and Staff of Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. |
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2006 July | "Beyond the Tipping Point:
Towards the Anthropocene Extinction Event". Paper delivered on Positive Feedback and the Acceleration of Climate Change to
The Foundation for the Future, Humanity 3000 Workshop, Seattle, April 2006, updated and
revised and presented to the Campaign Against Climate Change, June 2006, and the
UBS Seminar on land usage, July 2006. It outlines the choice between continuing the
current path towards catastrophe, or introducing powerful negative feedback processes
able to halt the runaway climate change and return the planet to a state of
equilibrium. |
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2006 June | Joint Rapporteur to the
Sustainability and the Science of Complexity Workshop: "Multi-disciplinary Methods and
Modelling for Impact Assessing interlinked challenges", Co-organised by the Sec Gen,
INFSO-FETs and RTD-NEST of the European Union. |
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2006 Feb. | Presentation to the Scientific Committee of the
European Environment Agency on "The Feedback Crisis in Climate Change", followed by meetings
with the Director, Jaquie McGlade, and her staff. |
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2005 Nov. | "The
Feedback Crisis in Climate Change" highlights the all-too-real possibility of
runaway climate change, driven by the naturally
occurring positive feedback loops of the biosphere. It raises
issues of the most fundamental and urgent nature for the world community and
calls in question the effectiveness of current strategic responses to global
warming. |
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2005 Oct. | Brief address to Annual Conference
of the Club of
Rome (attended by invitation of the President) |
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2005 June | "Global Warning",
was written, presented, published and widely
disseminated, in the weeks leading up to the G8 summit in July 2005. It stands as an alert to all global citizens
independently of that event. |
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2004 June | "Working in the Shadow of the Future:
the Psychodynamics of the World Health Organisation", presented at the 2004
Symposium of the International
Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO),
Coesfeld, Germany |
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2003 Nov. | Facilitator/Consultant:
World Health Organisation, Third Global Meeting of Country Representatives,
Liaison Officers, and the Regional and Headquarters Management Teams, Geneva
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2003 Sept. | "Roots of the Common Unconscious: Towards A New Paradigm
of Psycho-Social Analysis", presented to the 14th Scientific Meeting
of the A.K. Rice Institute, Boston. |
| 2003 July | "Global
Transformation?", a dialogical response to Ervin Laszlo's "Macroshift",
the official report of the Club of Budapest. |
| 2003 June | "Psychodynamics of War and Religion: Part II, Dynamics"
presented to 26th Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical
Association, New York. |
| 2002 Dec. | Open Letter on "World Dynamics" submitted to Kofi Annan et
al. |
| 2002 Sept. | "Prenatal Experience as the Ground of Group and Social Process",
presented to 15th World Congress of ISPPM (International Society for Pre and Peri-natal Psychology and Medicine), Budapest, Hungary. |
| 2002 June | "Psychodynamics of War and Religion: Part I, Analysis", presented to
25th
Annual Convention of the International Psychohistorical Association,
New York (received Roger Lorenz award for best presentation).
Repeated presentation by special invitation to conference of European Association for
Psychohistory, held July 2002, in Vichy, France. |
| 2000 June | Convenor and chair of Meridian 2000 Congress "The Civilization of
Birth" in London, UK. Presentations
on "Roots of the Common
Unconscious", "Psychodynamics of War and Religion", "Economics
and the Environment: the Psychodynamics of the New Millennium". |
| 1999 Nov. | Consultancy with WHO Aids Local Responses team, Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 1998 Sept. | Convenor and Co-chair of 13th World Congress of the ISPPM, London, UK. |
| 1997 May | "T-Groups: The Tavistock Leicester
Experience", Self & Society,
Volume 25, No.2, May 1997. |
| 1996 Sept. | "Change, Complexity and Organisational Learning", lead article
commissioned for publication by the UK Government agency ACAS (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service). |
| 1995 Oct. | Designer and co-chair of sector on Conference as Learning System,
10th World Conference of IODA, (International Organisation
Development Association), Eilat, Israel. |
| 1995 July | Conducted Master-class for Tavistock Institute and South Bank
University on "The Consulting Organisation as an Advanced Learning
System". Published in
Neumann, J.E., Kellner, K. and
Dawson-Shepherd, A. (eds.) (1997) "Developing Organisational
Consultancy". Routledge. |
| 1995 May | "Pre and Peri-natal Psychology, Psychoanalysis and the Dynamics of
Social Systems", presented to 12th World Congress of ISPPM,
Heidelberg, Germany. |
| 1994 Jan. | "Mary", psychodynamic case study of an abortion-survivor,
published in Häsing, H. and Janus, L. (eds.) (1994) "Ungewollte
Kinder", Rowohlt, Hamburg. |
| 1993 Jan. | Organisational Learning seminar for staff of WHO in Geneva. |
| 1992 Dec. | "Learning Systems and the management of Change", presented to
7th World Congress of IODA at Warwick University. Published in IODA Journal, Vol.1, No.1. |
| 1992 May | "Psychodynamics of Capitalism and the Free Market Economy",
presented to 11th World Congress of ISPPM, Krakow, Poland. |
| 1991 June | "Pre and perinatal roots of Religion and War", presented to
conference of German Chapter of ISPPM, Heidelberg, Germany. Published as "Die pränatalen und perinatalen Wurzeln von
Religion
und Krieg", Centaurus, 1993. |
| 1990 June | "The Pre and Perinatal Ground of Socio-Political Dynamic",
presented to the German Chapter of the ISPPM, Heidelberg,
Germany. |
| 1990 March | "Systems Analysis and the Roots of
Poverty", a
response to the
Carnegie study, "Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge"
by Francis Wilson and Mamphela Ramphele. |
| 1989 June | "Bridging the Gap: Connecting Individual Psychology and the
Behaviour of Social Systems" - The Frank Lake Memorial Lecture
presented to the Clinical Theology Association, published as
"Individual Psychology and the Behaviour of Social Systems",
Lingdale Paper No.13, 1990. |
| 1988 Nov. |
Process designer and keynote presenter, South-East Asian
Organisation Development Congress, Manila, Philippines. |
| 1988 Sept - Nov. | Lecturing,
workshops and consulting appointments in the State Capital cities of Australia. |
| 1987 Sept. | Keynote presenter to 7th World Organisation Development
Congress, and Inaugural congress of "Manhattan Project of the
Behavioural Sciences", convened in the USSR. |
| 1987 July | "Brundtland and Beyond... Towards a Global
Process", analytic
critique of "Our Common Future", the report of the World
Commission on Environment and Development. |
| 1987 May | Intensive consultancy with "underground" organisations during
military state of emergency before overthrow of Apartheid, South
Africa. Series of preparatory
papers assembled as "The South
Africa Collection". |
| 1985 July | "Primal Roots of Social Process", presented to Congress of
PPPANA (Pre and Perinatal Psychology Association of North
America), San Diego, California, USA. |
| 1984 July | "Transforming Social Crisis", keynote presentation to 7th
Congress
of the European Association for Humanistic Psychology. |
| 1983 Sept. | "Foundations of Psycho-social Analysis", published in Energy and
Character, Vol. 14, No. 2. |
| 1982 Sept. | "Religious Experience and Early Imprinting", presented at the First
International Conference of the European College for the Study of
Consciousness, Göttingen, Germany. Published
as "Religiöse
Erfahrung und frühe Prägung", in "Welten des Bewusstseins, Band
4",
VWB, Berlin. |
| 1979 - 1982 | Series of major papers on Klein, Freud, Winnicott, Grof, et al. |
| 1979 June | "Long Range Planning and the Church", published in the International
Journal "Long Range Planning", Vol.13, No.3, June 1980. |
| 1979 March |
"The Boundaries of Group Dynamics", critique of contribution of
W.G. Lawrence in "Exploring Individual and Organizational
Boundaries", delivered to the consultancy training group of the
Tavistock Leicester Conference. |
| 1979 March | "Towards a Unified Field Theory of Human Behaviour", presented
to the consultancy training group of the Tavistock Leicester
Conference. |
| 1977 July | "The Evolution of Missionary Congregations", published in the
International Review of Mission (WCC), October 1977. |
| 1975 Nov. | "Survival of Mission", presented to both Archbishops and full
membership of the General Synod of the Church of England, at the
Annual General Meeting of ACE (the Archbishop's Council on
Evangelism). |
| 1975 Oct. | "Divide and Conquer" (report of operational and dynamic research
on the application of replicating cellular structures to religious
congregations), delivered to General Synod of the Church of England. |
| 1974 Nov. | "Let my People Grow" (report of operational research identifying
self-limiting structure of religious congregations), delivered to General
Synod of the Church of England. |
