Interconnected Thinking **focuses on the whole by including multiples levels and perspectives to create systems awareness**. It is mainly about the perception of interrelations and power dynamics across different levels, disciplines, institutions, people, and elements. In doing so, the approach overcomes traditional mass-specialization along administrative and professional boundaries towards transdisciplinarity and the understanding of the bigger picture. Time is a crucial element of Interconnected Thinking. Time, as well as patience, is needed to reflect, to regenerate, and to understand circumstances, problems, and underlying structures holistically.