Taking Systems Thinking into Your Personal Life


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Overview/Description
Have you tried to change a habit over and over only to face defeat again? Do you look at your relationships and see the same problems coming up and feel incapable of changing them? Does it feel like you're butting your head up against the same wall with no relief in sight? Using systems thinking in your personal life can be a new and effective way to tackle and change issues at their core. It is possible to change old habits. You can learn to communicate in more effective ways. Change is not only possible, it is part of life. In this course, you will explore the personal nature of systems. You'll learn about different types of personal patterns and you'll learn how to change personal patterns that aren't benefiting you. You'll also explore how systems thinking can connect you to the world at large. You'll learn how relationships operate as systems and the process you can go through to change relationship patterns that aren't working. This course will introduce you to the wealth of potential available to you when you bring systems thinking into your life on a daily basis.

Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, team leaders, employees

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

The Personal Nature of Systems

  • recognize the importance of understanding the personal nature of systems.
  • identify the four principles of living systems.
  • identify examples of balancing loops and reinforcing loops.
  • Relating to Yourself

  • recognize the benefits of identifying and changing personal patterns.
  • analyze a given scenario to assess it for signs of a victim pattern.
  • analyze a given scenario to determine which details make it an example of a denial pattern.
  • analyze a scenario to determine what the person in the scenario is projecting.
  • determine whether the changing of a personal pattern will be successful in a given scenario.
  • Relating to the World at Large

  • recognize the benefits of using systems thinking ideas and strategies in relating to the world at large.
  • identify the elements that define relationships as systems.
  • identify the elements of a co-dependency pattern.
  • identify the elements of a passive-aggressive pattern.
  • apply the process for creating a new relationship pattern in a role play.
  • identify strategies for coping with change.
  • Course Number:
    STGY0407