Intro to Systems Thinking
22.08.2024 2024-08-23 15:45Intro to Systems Thinking
Live Online Course
INTRO TO SYSTEMS THINKING
When: October 16, 23 and 30, 2024 | 9:00 - 13:00 CET
Price: EUR 290 EUR 100*
*Hurry - the special price applies to those who register for the first cohort of this newly launched course.
Skills you'll gain
- Ability to recognise 5 of the most common dynamics that cause our systems to fail
- Ability to find high impact solutions
Who it's for
- Sustainability managers & professionals
- Business and political leaders
- Changemakers and problem solvers
Course details
- 3 facilitated 4-hour online sessions
- Packed with exercises and assignments
- Certificate of completion
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Well-intending interventions backfiring. Goals drifting. Feeling of "working against the system". Fixing a problem just to find it reappearing after a while. Being addicted to stuff you know is bad for you. If you've had such experiences, you were caught in destructive systemic patterns.
Our entire society is currently caught in a number of these patterns, which is the reason that, in spite of all the awareness and information available, our social and environmental interventions have hardly any real impact.
In this course, you will learn how to recognise these patterns and where to look for interventions that lead to lasting effects instead of just sweeping problems under the rug.
Programme
Day 1
- Become aware of the systems everywhere around (and within) us
- Multi-leveled exploration of challenges
- How systems self-regulate through feedback loops
- How time delays make things interesting
- Causal Loop Diagrams
- Homework assignment: Take a dive into real challenges
Day 2
- Stocks, Flows and Regeneration
- Archetypal patterns of behaviour #1: Limits to Growth
- Archetypal patterns of behaviour #2: Shifting the Burden/Addiction
- Homework assignment: Finding interventions to break destructive patterns
Day 3
- Archetypal patterns of behaviour #3: Success to the successful
- Archetypal patterns of behaviour #4: Tragedy of the commons
- Archetypal patterns of behaviour #5: Escalation/Race to the Bottom
- Chart your path forward: apply the new skills to your work
REGISTER
Fill the form below and you'll get all the necessary follow up information, including payment details, on your email. The minimum number of participants to run the course is 5 and the maximum per course group is 10.
Course Facilitator
RAM DUŠIĆ HREN
My first formal contact with Systems Thinking was in the academic time of my career, studying nonlinear dynamic systems and chaos from a scientific point of view.
After transitioning into business and focusing my personal research efforts more into social and economic systems, I began studying Systems Thinking also from a more applicative and "human" perspective. I found it an immensely powerful discipline to bridge silos, understand the dynamics of our systems and solve problems in a way that's good for the whole.
The programme for this course is a result of years of training in the discipline and working on sustainability projects and solutions, which provides rich practical examples and feedback from the field.
TRUSTED BY
Ladeja Godina Košir
Executive Director At Circular Change
Klemen Furlan
CEO at GoGiro
Nino Kutnjak
CPO at Iconomi
