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