Amoenitas

The Free Dictionary defines System as a group or combination of interrelated, interdependent, or interacting elements forming a collective entity. At the basic level, all systems receive inputs, undergo process, and generate outputs. Living systems do this repeatedly, often selectively, according to rules that maintain equilibrium or balance. All of creation operates in systems, from galaxies to households, from our bodies to our power grids, throughout nature and across cultures – systems are ubiquitous. Amoenitas is the Latin root word for amenity. Amenities are often considered pleasant extras that increase comfort or convenience. In health and economics, amenities can reduce adverse health effects or improve community welfare. Amoenitas sees all living systems as amenities and works to promote a pleasant sense of place and community that develops when living systems are interdependent, balanced and healthy. Amoenitas works across scale in a variety of sectors, contexts, and communities of practice, applying innovative techniques and technology tools to help organizations in the non-profit sector to identify, analyze and understand key factors about their mission and ministry programs, projects, places and operations that can be optimized, reoriented, or improved to help balance, strengthen and promote healthy sustainable systems. Through our work, Amoenitas seeks to raise awareness and advance understanding about the benefits of balanced sustainable systems; that understanding through a systems lens affords broader perspective through which we can embrace complexity by connecting context and detail with function and structure to guide better decision making, planning, design and evaluation; and that an applied systems approach to improve conditions can operate as a framework to bridge shared understanding and benefit across varied disciplines and agendas that intersect faith, science, business, education, environment, industry, government and community.