Example of a Bathtub overflow without using an If-Then-Else statement.

Examples of reinforcing and balancing loops enhanced with images to maybe them more visually engaging.

Just some thoughts for Runy.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Bill Braun's version from the HPSIG wiki.

A model of the influences for Congress Creating Legislation.

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A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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Our actions are based on our beliefs and the results of those actions are the basis for our beliefs. The difficulty we create for ourselves is that we make assumptions as to how to interpret the results we select based on our beliefs. As a result we are often operating on a flawed perspective of reality.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

The typical problem solving cycle.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of agriculture.

How to create  fixed random variable which is set at the beginning of the simulation.

Demo of changing vector length on the fly.

Once the strategy has been developed it's up to the Stakeholders who own the segments of the revised model to implement it so a new pattern of behavior is created thus effecting the desired situation.

Cloud example. If you really want clouds a sources in your model it's pretty easy to create one.

The boundary defines the extent of the system.

My first relationship map which demonstrates the build out of the relationship options for a project which is behind schedule.

The typical approach to dealing with situations. We simply want them to go away.

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Some people have found it easier to communicate interactions and their implications with Connection Circles rather than Causal Loop Diagrams.

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A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

This is a template which one might use as a basis for creating Insight Maker Relationship models. Links have default style of the blue ones in the diagram. The easiest way to get the red dashed links is to CTRL+d to duplicate them and then connect where appropriate.

Because everything is connected you can't do just one thing. And while everything is connected everything isn't relevant.