FORMAT: interactive live online sessions
DURATION: 6 weeks, 1 session of 120-minutes per week
GROUP SIZE: Maximum 16 participants per cohort
CERTIFICATE: certificate of attendance issued by Franklin University Switzerland
NEXT COURSE: early 2022
COST: 870 EUR
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: 15% off = 740 EUR
A language has a powerful impact on the way we perceive and act upon our world. This module provides you with a language to describe, examine, and structure complex problems and situations, in which causes and effects are intertwined, the implications of decisions are uncertain, and policy interventions are distorted and delayed.
Learning this language helps you examine complexity, identify potential unintended consequences of decisions, develop awareness of the sources of policy resistance, and ultimately enable you to make more informed choices.
Identifying and mapping reinforcing feedback (engine of growth and decay) and balancing feedback (goal seeking processes) as the building blocks of complex dynamic behavior in socio-economic and human activity systems.
Understanding the trend of, and the interaction between system variables over time, and exploring the correspondence between feedback structures and patterns of behavior such as exponential growth and decline, s-shaped growth and overshoot and collapse.
Combining reinforcing and balancing loops to form a cohesive and holistic view of a system, and to gain insight into the possible unintended consequences of decisions, thereby anticipating deviations from expected results of interventions.
Gaining an understanding of the commonly recurring patterns of behavior in a system, such as limits to growth, shifting the burden, eroding goals, and tragedy of the commons, and enriching an intuitive sense of how complex structures work.
Enhancing the capability to intervene in complex systems by identifying and examining the leverage points as the places for an effective intervention in a system, where a small change can yield substantial improvements.
Getting acquainted with designing systems-based interventions, by learning how to conceptualize and elicit key system variables, develop reference modes, conduct group model building and collective sensemaking exercises, and create and communicate systems narratives.
Peer learning is a central part of this module. Accordingly, we ask you to submit a reflection on what motivates you to take this module, to help us form a well-balanced group. See below in the form. Think it through, but don’t overthink it.
In the selection process the applications are reviewed, and the 16-person cohort is formed. A combination of the time of your application, and the contents of the reflections will be taken into consideration.
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