This program will take our Systems Thinking skills to the next level. Linda Booth Sweeney, co-author of the Systems Thinking Playbook, will present a series of short exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking.
Location
Non-Profit Center 89 South St First floor Community Room Boston, MA 02110 UNITED STATES
This program is an ideal follow-up to David Stroh’s excellent program on Systems Thinking. Linda Booth Sweeney, co-author of the Systems Thinking Playbook, will present a series of short exercises that illustrate the subtleties of systems thinking. After each exercise, we will discuss when to use the exercise based on the needs of the group you’re working with, and how to apply them for various learning objectives and audiences.
Systems Thinking represents a set of methods and tools that focus on systems, rather than parts, as the context for defining and solving complex problems, and for fostering more effective learning and design. At its best, the practice of systems thinking helps us stop operating from crisis to crisis, and to think in a more integrated way. The games (exercises) help us apply the “habits of mind” associated with systems thinking, and provide insights into the problems organizations are dealing with.
Takeaways:
Experience how Systems Thinking exercises can help you and others understand systems theory
Learn how to facilitate selected Systems Thinking exercises
Learn ideal situations to apply each exercise
Identify ways that you can apply these exercises in your own work
Presenter As a systems educator and award-winning author, Linda Sweeney Booth works with people of all ages to develop systems literacy, or a deeper understanding of living systems. In much of her work, Linda translates complex systems theory into accessible materials and programs for innovation in organizations, schools, museums, public television and communities.
Combining complex systems theory + systems mapping + story telling, Linda also works with organizations to move beyond bullet points and matrices to language and visuals that more closely match the interdependent, dynamic, complex reality of their work.
Linda is also the author of “When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Children Explore Interconnections in our World Through Favorite Stories and Connected Wisdom”. Linda holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University an d is the delighted mother of three children.
