Spherical Thinking™
An Epistemic Capacity Building Workshop
Spherical Thinking is a framework for developing the capacity to hold complexity, navigate competing truths, and move beyond binary and ideological thinking. This workshop is designed for those seeking to develop higher-order thinking for navigating an increasingly complex world.
Spherical Thinking is a response to a civilizational problem: the gap between the complexity of the world and the capacity of minds and institutions to govern it. The workshop isn't about being a better leader or a more effective team. It's about developing the kind of mind that democratic and social life actually requires right now.
What You’ll Learn
Systems Thinking
Understanding interconnection, feedback loops, and second and third-order effects rather than linear cause and effect.
Dialectic Thinking
Holding opposing truths in productive tension without collapsing into false resolution or premature certainty.
Presence & Perception
Developing the capacity to perceive what is actually present rather than filtering reality through identity, ideology, or tribal certainty.
Integrative Judgement
Synthesizing complexity into coherent judgment and action without bypassing the nuance that makes that judgment legitimate.
To think spherically is to think in wholes, not just parts.
Meet Your Instructor
Susan C. dos Reis DiVito is the founder of The Complexity Project. She holds an MBA in Economics from New York University and is completing an MS in Applied Neuroscience at King's College London. She maintains a private practice as a somatic practitioner, developmental coach, and meditation teacher in New York City, working at the intersection of neuroscience, embodied psychology, and contemplative depth. She serves as state lead for an electoral and political reform organization for the state of New York, and volunteers in end-of-life care, grief support, correctional facilities, and crisis intervention. Her work spans the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal, and she believes the same architecture of capacity that enables individual transformation is what democratic and social systems ultimately require.