Thinking Complexity in Community Development

In this chapter, Alex (from Chap. 7 ) continues her description by providing commentary on how thinking complexity acts as a framework for action and reflection in the practice of community development, or in the doing-thinking-doing, which can directly support and influence practice. She illustrates how thinking complexity supports decision-making and learning in community development activities and settings. The worked examples demonstrate the benefits of integrating key concepts such as emergence into practitioners’ conceptual models. Alex’s personal account of thinking complexity provides reassurance to those working in the CD field that it is through developing the cycle of doing-thinking-doing that capacity and confidence is built and in which thinking and doing are equally valued.