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Map a System

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Duration: 40 minutes · Learning goal: Make a simple system boundary and feedback hypothesis visible.

Facilitator sequence

  1. 0–5 min · Choose a familiar non-sensitive situation.
  2. 5–12 min · Define place, time horizon and outcome.
  3. 12–22 min · List actors, resources, stocks and flows.
  4. 22–32 min · Draw three links and mark evidence needed.
  5. 32–40 min · Identify one delay, an excluded perspective and a monitoring signal.

Participant worksheet

  1. Boundary:
  2. Actors and relationships:
  3. One possible feedback loop:
  4. Evidence needed:
  5. Who or what is outside the boundary?

Self-check: Can the learner identify an observation, an interpretation and a limitation?

Closure: Record a source to revisit and one unresolved question.

Further reading (internet required)

Attribution and limits

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