The Systems Breakfast Club: Collective reading and discussion for systems practitioners
The Systems Breakfast Club: Collective reading and discussion for systems practitioners
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The Systems Breakfast Club is a relaxed space for collective reading, curiosity, and discussion with a friendly community of systems practitioners.
What’s currently on your systems reading list? This is a chance to make time to dust off the books on your shelf – or deep dive into topics through related resources!
Each session follows a simple format: community check-in, silent collective reading, and facilitated discussion in small groups and full-group conversation. We’ll focus on a selected chapter or section each time, reading together during the session – so there’s no homework, prep, or pressure.
The reading club is a School alumni community initiative, created and hosted by Delta alum Sophie Mirpourian with support from Rebecca Warren (Delta alum and Head of Learning Programmes at the School) – emerged from a conversation about an easy way to continue their own systems learning journeys with other spirited changemakers.
Simply bring your own copy of the book (or a related resource if you don’t have it), show up as you are, and leave with fresh thinking, meaningful connection, and renewed inspiration.
We welcome you into this facilitated conversation with other systems enthusiasts and invite you to pay the price most appropriate to you.
Dates, times and topics
Each session runs on Thursdays, 8-10am BST (UK time).
25 June: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
16 July: The Dao of Complexity by Jean Boulton
6 August: Earth Logic Gardening by Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham
27 August: The Planetary Compendium co-developed by Berggruen Institute and Dark Matter Labs
17 September: Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
About your hosts
The book club is hosted by Delta alumni Sophie Mirpourian and Rebecca Warren. Delta is the School's 5-week introductory systems change course.
Image by Kaja Grope
Sophie is a social anthropologist and independent project developer. She describes herself as a ‘professional beginner’ and collaborates with local authorities, universities and civil society to co-design unconventional concepts, narratives and events aimed at fostering social cohesion. Her work focuses on building collaborative ecosystems and future-proofing institutions. She is the co-founder of the network “Die Stadtmacher*innen” in Kiel, Germany, and co-author of the book "Ein Update für unsere Demokratie" (oekom 2025). Her project, Tiny Rathaus, was awarded the Koop.Stadt Federal Prize by the National Urban Development Policy.
Rebecca is the School's Head of Learning Programmes. Before joining the School in early 2026, Rebecca has worked in a variety of roles, both in more formal learning settings as well as non-profit international youth programmes. She went into the education sector after completing her Masters in Leadership for Sustainable Development at Forum for the Future, with a passion to equip young people to make a positive difference in their own lives as well as for our collective future. She joined Teach First and worked in a London school for many years, and then has worked for Teach for All, United World Colleges, Rise, and Tilting Futures.