Agenda
8:00 AM - Noon, May 17, 19, 21, 25, 27
Monday, May 17
8:00 Welcome, Introductions, Tech Review
8:15 Presentation: Intro to Systems Thinking
8:45 Breakout: Systems Challenge Lab
Refining the Systems Challenge
Tool: Complexity Spectrum Chart
9:15 Team Reporting
9:30 Break
9:40 Breakout: Tools: Why? Stars and Framing
10:00 Subject Area Expert Presentation: Dr. Sam Cantanzaro
10:50 Break
11:00 Breakout: Framing Cont’d
11:45 Team Reporting
11:55 Reflection, Feedback, Homework & a Look Ahead
Wednesday, May 19
8:00 Welcome back, Orientation
8:15 Finishing Challenge Framing
8:45 Breakout: Mapping
Tools: Stakeholder Map & Context Map
9:20 Break
9:30 Breakout - Exploring Forces: Enablers, Inhibitors
Tool: Affinity Map
10:15 Breakout - Identify Themes (+/-)
10:45 Break
11:00 Breakout - Upstream Causes and Downstream Effect
Structural
Attitudinal
Transactional
11:30 Team Reporting
11:45 Reflection, Feedback, Homework & a Look Ahead
Friday, May 21
8:00 Welcome
8:15 Breakout - Top Enablers and Inhibitors Cont’d
8:40 Teams Report
8:45 Breakout - Upstream Causes and Downstream Effects
Structural, Attitudinal, Transactional
9:30 Break
9:40 Teams Report
9:50 Breakout - Identify Feedback Loops
Vicious, Virtuous, Stabilizing, Stagnating Loops
10:30 Teams Report
10:50 Break
11:00 Breakout - Identify the Deep Structure
Building the Deep Structure Narrative
11:30 Team Reporting
11:45 Reflection, Feedback & a Look Ahead
Tuesday, May 25
8:00 Welcome, recap, homework reflection
8:30 Breakout - Getting Loopy
9:15 Team Report
9:30 Break
9:40 Breakout - Deep Structure
10:30 Team Report
10:50 Break
11:00 Breakout - Adding loops to the deep structure
11:45 Reflection, Feedback & a Look Ahead
Thursday, May 27
8:00 Welcome, recap, homework reflection
8:15 Breakout - Review proposed system maps
8:45 Breakout - Conduct Leverage Analysis
Where is the system frozen?
Where are places that seem like a mixed bag?
Where are there places that seem like bright spots?
Where are you seeing ripple effects?
9:15 Break
9:25 Breakout - Communicating the System Narrative
10:00 Team Presentations
11:00 Final Reflection and Future Vision