Balancing Loop with Delay Systems Archetype Causal Loop Diagram.

Are there environmental/physical limits to humanity? Based on the Are There Limits? blog post by Tom Fiddaman.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

Borrowed from STW/STiA Certification program to help develop insights regarding situations of interest to New Community Paradigms. There are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

21st Century Systems Thinking Skills as depicted b Viktor Vojko. Adapted from Systems thinking: critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond by Barry Richmond.

CLD of Eric Wolstenholme Syst. Dyn. Rev. 23, 371–389, (2007) See IM-1008 for a stock flow version.

If we pay close attention to our actions and the typical outcomes of those actions it would be evident that there are frequently occurring patterns that develop. And there is a relation between the patterns.

Insight Maker is completely web based making it easy to develop and share models, allows concurrent multi-user editing, and just happens to be FREE, which a pretty good feature/price ratio.

Diagram from CDC conference.

Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlayed with images.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

To develop insights regarding a situation of interest there are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

Clone of Causal Loop Diagrams for New Community Paradigms. Use the defined relationships and complete the loops to create a reinforcing and balancing structure. 

Illustrates the effect of sleep, exercise, and lifestyle factors on one's level of energy.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

A small change in one variable can have a marked impact on multiple variables. Run the model [quits change] = 0  and consider the output. What happens if  you change [quits change] = 5. Run the model to find out. Was the change what you expected?

Very begining lab.

The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

The model construction process is actually a balancing loop which endeavors to employ an abstract version of real events to form a model which produces conclusions and behavior which mimic the real events.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

21st Century Systems Thinking Skills as depicted b Viktor Vojko. Adapted from Systems thinking: critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond by Barry Richmond.

When one undertakes to create a model there are a number of guidelines that are considered essential for consideration if there is to be a success with the model.