Content: Mapping System Dynamics. Philosophy and Language of Systems. How our brains work. How structure affects behavior. Relationships and Loops. Rules for causal loop diagramming.

Intention: To understand what systems are. To illustrate how our brains work as pattern spotting machines, what perspectives mean and how systems operate. To learn the rules of causal loop diagramming.

Materials: Pens, paper etc

Method: Series of exercises:

• [[Dominoes Experience]] (team)
• [[Iceberg Model]]
• [[Circles in the Air]] (individual)
• [[Perspectives exercises]] (individual)
• [[Memory Test]] (individual)
• [[Variables Experience]] Variable spotting exercise (individual)
• [[Relationships exercise]] (individual)
• [[Paper folding Experience]] (individual)
• [[Identify R loop]] (team)
• [[Identify B loop]] (team)
• [[Building out Maps]] (?'s what else, how)

For more information see: [[Power of Exponential]]

Homework: Identify variables in SyS 1 simple map.

See [[Observations Sys 2]]

NB In the cutdown version (run over 2 days) we simplified this to

• Discussion of what systems are;
• Dominoes exercise;
• Circles in th air;
• Building/copyinga simple Inclusion model together and story telling