Workshop Flow
Module 2:  Learning to Deepen Systemic Thinking [Leader as Teacher]
    Building Foundations Workshop
Session
Day 1: 9 am - 4.30 pm
Day 2: 8.30 am - 4.30 pm
Day 3: 8.30 am - 4.30 pm
AM1
9 - 10.30 am
 Welcome
Review of key concepts in Module 1
Understanding what causes exponential
growth? Review:  What is 2 to the power of
40?  How high would the fold go? (Link 1, 2)
Did uncle boil the frog?  What was he boiling?
 Q&A
Identifying the trim-tab for urgent files
Review of life examples of reinforcing and
balancing loops and ways we treat the reality
from the perspectives of DIL and the uncle
 Q&A
Continue Shifting the Burden (StB) Arhetype
Learning:  To deal with dependencies /
addictions - Crimes, Destitution
Case Study:  The scanner story
Identifying and working with trim-tabs for FtB
and StB case studies
Break
  
AM2
10.45 - 1.15
pm
 Introducing Maslow's Hierarchy in the context
of frames (of me vs us and today vs future)
Qns: What are the causal links between the
perception the crisis of HIV is rising and
self-esteem of the individual is declining?
Completion of the Dynamic Complexity Laws
3-10
 Continue exercise on Archetypes:  Budget
Pressure
Learning: How archetypes were discovered.
[They are not inventions]
 Qns: You are Gary (govt)?  How would you treat
the structure of dependencies?

Seeing the link between archetypes and mental
models (our frames / fears)
Lunch
  
PM1
2 - 3.30 pm
 Cont'd
Qns:  Application of the laws on the
case-study on urgent file. Identify the
trim-tab
How did the uncle solve the problem? (to
complete the remaining six)
Appreciating LO vis-a-vis other tools
 Introduce Fixes that Backfire (FtB) Archetype
Case Study:  Goody Bags
Qns:  What causes the spirit of voluntarism?
Learning: Understanding the impact of
causality on organizational performance /
results.
Learning to identify viscious circles within
archetypes and learning to treat them.
 Introduce Limits to Growth (LtG) Archetype
Case Study: Marketing and Servicing divisions
Learning: Building the Key Success Loop /
Shared Vision / Private Sector: How do you pay
attention to cycles of growth?
Break
  
PM2
3.45 -
4.30 pm
 Exercise on Archetypes:  Budget Pressure
Learning: How were archetypes discovered?
[They are not inventions]
 Introduce Shifting the Burden (StB) Arhetype
 Introduce Success to the Successful Archetype
Qns:  How do you solve the problem of poverty?
Follow-up
works
 Qns 1: What is the trim-tab for the urgent file case study?
Qns 2: What are the long-term consequences of the budget
crisis?
Qns 3: How did uncle solve the problem (the problem does
not recur) yet he did nothing?
 Qns 4: What  causes the spirit of voluntarism / compassion /
passion at the workplace?
Qns 5: What causes individuals choosi5 than depend on
the government?
 Qns 6: What  needs to happen the solve the problem of poverty?
Participant intersession readings and works:
  • Reading: Review the language of Systems Thinking
  • Reading: Preview the "11 Laws of Complexity"
  • Reading: Review of the archetypes / onion
  • Completing of the HIV Loop (what is causal link between punitive measures by 'parents'
    increasing and self-esteem of children declining?)
Topics carried forward to Intermodule discussion sessions & Module 3:
  • Completing the HIV Loop
  • Continue the StS, Esc, ToC and the Onion
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Course Etiquette That Helps:
  • Be present – miss a step means miss the course!
  • Listen with respect to each other
  • Become aware of judgment and assumptions and
    learn to test their validity as much as we hope
    others would do the same for you
  • Be open to seeing that we do not know what we
    do not know
  • Be willing to be authentic.  Become aware of the
    need to cover our deepest fears and
    vulnerabilities up from the view of others.  Notice
    the reasons for having to do so.