Social Systems Thinking

A workbook in the use of tools for thinking about social systems

Two loops of text boxes joined by arrows. One going from Monitor, Analyse, Plan, Execute back to Monitor and the second from the Plan box to Design then back to Plan
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Fall Update

17 Sep 2022

I’ve finally been able to get back to this after family illness and hope to be able to continue with more frequent updates. I’ve added a couple of workshops and improved the introduction.

The need to take on more around the house dashed hopes of nature and garden posts, or even of gardening, though I recently managed to clear space for a vegetable garden next year.

However, I did a little work on the main workbook, over the summer. Most of it was re-thinking material I had already written and restructuring to attempt to make things clearer. This is obviously going to be a long-term, iterative effort.

My framework is helping a little to structure my thinking; it has survived all but some minor tweaks in the diagrams and their descriptions.

It hasn’t yet shown a lot of power in the text I have on here, but it has provoked some of my detailed rethinking and, more importantly, provoked a lot of notes that will fit into later workshops.

I think I’ve been fussing too much with the sequence of workshops and may have to do it again, so I won’t point to specific new workshops here, and since there hasn’t been anything new here since May, nobody will remember anything, so you may as well start at the main Table of Contents