The morning session was quite a struggle – not in terms of understanding the concept of systems thinking, but perhaps more of a frustration at the pace of the lessons. I feel at the moment that I already have an understanding about systems thinking, and our lecturers will certainly give us the language to communicate our thinking better. However, the only new thing I find myself with so far is some examples of systems archetypes, one of which I can use to illustrate some problems associated with my essay topic. Looking at the IFF World Model (see above) it started to make a bit more sense, although again I think that many people do look at these viewpoints, although perhaps they are unable to communicate them properly. By taking Findhorn as an example and working in small groups, I found that this help us to drag out the thinking behind the system which was definitely useful.
Unfortunately I thought the tension regarding this topic was building up – but thankfully a frank discussion in the group meant that the lessons changed their pace a little. I felt I struggled a little bit at first, but once we had separated into groups and worked through it started to make more sense. I'm still a little wary of it's application – mainly that it is so complex that unless someone has been heavily trained in systems thinking then it would be quite hard to communicate using the definitions and loops that they talk about. It is however a great tool for invoking discussion and for forming questions.
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