| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 15: Belief Release |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
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Participants refocus their bodies and minds in a way that helps them become more explicitly aware of their beliefs. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 16: Balancing Tubes |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Individuals balance a newspaper tube on a flat palm. By looking at different parts of the tube, they are either better or worse able to keep the tube balanced.
Complex Systems Connection: ause within System. The exercise creates a balancing, and in this case, oscillating system. The oscillation is built into the structure of the system that includes all the parts along with the physics (e.g. gravity). Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 17: Touch Base |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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A group standing around a circle must cross, touch the middle, but avoid touching any other participants.
Complex Systems Connection: Cause within System, Incorrect High-Leverage Policies. Participants attempt to complete a task but may simply try to move faster rather than considering how moving slower in a more organized manner will likely get better results. Available at Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 18: Squaring the Circle |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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A group holding onto a rope must reshape the rope into a square while they are blind-folded.
Complex Systems Connection: Cause within System, Incorrect High-Leverage Policies. Participants attempt to complete a task but may simply try to move in isolation rather than considering how moving more holistically will likely get better results. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 19: 1-2-3 Go! |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Participants tend to respond to the facilitator in a way that is based on mental models as opposed to following the actual instructions. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 2: Arms Crossed |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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People cross their arms and hands in different ways in order to experience a habit of which they may be completely unaware. Recognizing these physical habits that reinforce themselves over time can help in considering where habitual thinking ruts might impede understanding of systems. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 20: Dog Biscuits and See Saws |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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A pair working together attempt to balance a see saw in which they can each see only one of the ends. CS connecton: Cause within System, Short and Long Term Conflicts. The exercise creates a conflict between a short-term goal to put as many objects on the see saw as possible and a long-term goal of keeping the system balanced. Also, the balancing nature of the system creates the behavior that's seen over time, which is a building block to more complex systems. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 21: Frames |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Participants experience different boundaries in a system.
Complex Systems Connection: Separate Cause and Effect. Participants experience the difference between and the extent of time and space boundaries of systems, which is an underlying aspect of all systems, both simple and complex. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 22: Postcard Stories |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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CS connection: Cause within System. Small groups work together to use postcards to create a "story" of a feedback loop structure. By changing the structure of the system, they get a different set of cause and effect relationships, thus a different story. This concept of feedback/interdependence is an underlying concept within more complex systems. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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| The Systems Thinking Playbook Exercise 23: Paper Fold |
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Author(s):
Linda Booth Sweeney, & Dennis Meadows |
Subject:
Cross-Curricular |
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Folding a paper in half mutiple times illustrates the concepts of exponential growth and limits to growth.
Complex Systems Connection: Cause within System. The nature of the system (in this case a rule of doubling) impacts the trend over time (in this case exponential growth). Compounding structures are a building block within more complex systems. Available from Chelsea Green Publishers. |
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