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Beneficial change most often results from working with the affected population through the medium of STiP.


Systems Thinking in Practice - or STiP, as we sometimes call it - is, frankly, one of the great hopes of our time. It has the endorsement of the UN, the WHO and the OECD and has proved effective in alleviating difficulties of bewildering complexity by engaging social learning.


This principle takes the fundamental purpose of government - beneficial change - and addresses the patchy performance of governments everywhere. The placating, appeasing, and overall absence of effective action on the part of governments is easily traced to the impossibility of such a tiny cohort being able to contend with the vast complexity of their imagined mandate. The systemic response, the STiP response, is to turn this on its head, and put the mandate where it is needed - at the front line, where life is happening, far from the much-vaunted Corridors of Power.


What is it, to think systemically? What does it look like, in practice?


In this episode we unpack this promising approach to the challenges of our time.


Talking points:


This great hope


Problems are the world's problems


The problems with governments - over-stretched


Laying it all out - "problems", maps, stakeholders, "solutions"


Situations of concern


Extending and containing boundaries


Systems mapping - a picture of the whole system, how the system works


Goulburn-Broken River Catchment - vast complexity


Polarised perspectives: Bawdens World-views


The library at Shepton Mallet


Rich pictures - visual representations and complex communications and humans


Framing and re-framing


Solutions landscapes - homelessness in Vancouver


The design turn - systems thinking in practise is designing


...and is empowering to civil society: Pacific coast tidal wave planning and the pandemic


Individual action and STiP - An art therapist bucks the bureaucracy and frees an agoraphobic


What Why and How - applying learning to your relationship


Links


Systems thinking in practise at the Shepton Mallet Library(slide deck):

https://www.systemspractice.org/resources/attachment/eca09f7f-03f0-4115-9c9a-1ed113670d5c


To beat a pandemic, try prepping for a tsunami (MIT Deep tech podcast)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/03/1002535/podcast-to-beat-a-pandemic-try-prepping-for-a-tsunami/



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Beneficial change most often results from working with the affected population through the medium of STiP.


Systems Thinking in Practice - or STiP, as we sometimes call it - is, frankly, one of the great hopes of our time. It has the endorsement of the UN, the WHO and the OECD and has proved effective in alleviating difficulties of bewildering complexity by engaging social learning.


This principle takes the fundamental purpose of government - beneficial change - and addresses the patchy performance of governments everywhere. The placating, appeasing, and overall absence of effective action on the part of governments is easily traced to the impossibility of such a tiny cohort being able to contend with the vast complexity of their imagined mandate. The systemic response, the STiP response, is to turn this on its head, and put the mandate where it is needed - at the front line, where life is happening, far from the much-vaunted Corridors of Power.


What is it, to think systemically? What does it look like, in practice?


In this episode we unpack this promising approach to the challenges of our time.


Talking points:


This great hope


Problems are the world's problems


The problems with governments - over-stretched


Laying it all out - "problems", maps, stakeholders, "solutions"


Situations of concern


Extending and containing boundaries


Systems mapping - a picture of the whole system, how the system works


Goulburn-Broken River Catchment - vast complexity


Polarised perspectives: Bawdens World-views


The library at Shepton Mallet


Rich pictures - visual representations and complex communications and humans


Framing and re-framing


Solutions landscapes - homelessness in Vancouver


The design turn - systems thinking in practise is designing


...and is empowering to civil society: Pacific coast tidal wave planning and the pandemic


Individual action and STiP - An art therapist bucks the bureaucracy and frees an agoraphobic


What Why and How - applying learning to your relationship


Links


Systems thinking in practise at the Shepton Mallet Library(slide deck):

https://www.systemspractice.org/resources/attachment/eca09f7f-03f0-4115-9c9a-1ed113670d5c


To beat a pandemic, try prepping for a tsunami (MIT Deep tech podcast)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/03/1002535/podcast-to-beat-a-pandemic-try-prepping-for-a-tsunami/



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