learning with each other: bringing voices together to
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Learning with Each Other: Bringing Voices Together to Explore Safe Systems
Jill Kuhlberg, PhD, MSW
Coffee & Conversation | May 8, 2018
System Dynamics
“System dynamics is the use of informal maps and formal models with computer simulation to uncover and understand
endogenous sources of system behavior.”
Richardson, G.P. (2011). Reflections on the foundations of system dynamics. System Dynamics Review, 27(3), 219-243.
Dynamics of Department Party Planning
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
Places to Intervene in a System
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
Places to Intervene in a System
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
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Changing the rules
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
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Places to Intervene in a System
Changing parameters
Regulating or drivingfeedback loops
Changing material or information flows
Changing the rules
Goals of the system
Mindset or paradigm
Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
Places to Intervene in a System
Changing parameters
Regulating or drivingfeedback loops
Changing material or information flows
Changing the rules
Goals of the system
Mindset or paradigm
Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
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eatthefood
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Changing parameters
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Changing the rules
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Meadows, D. (1999) Leverage Points: Places to intervene in a system, Sustainability Institute.
Community Based System Dynamics
• A participatory method for involving communities in the process of understanding and changing systems from the endogenous or feedback perspective.
Defining problem
Conceptualizing system
Creating/ formulating
model
Validating and analyzing
Formulating & evaluating
policies
Hovmand, P.S. (2014), Community Based System Dynamics, Springer: NY.
Conceptualizing Participation
Kumar, J. (2004) Methods for Community Participation. Practical Action Publishing: Warwickshire, UK.
Passive Functional Interactive Self-
mobilization
Consultation Material
IncentivesInformation
Gathering
Participation in CBSD
Kumar, J. (2004) Methods for Community Participation. Practical Action Publishing: Warwickshire, UK.
Hovmand, P.S. (2014), Community Based System Dynamics, Springer: NY
Defining problem
Conceptualizing system
Creating/ formulating model
Validating and analyzing
Formulating & evaluating policies
Public Policy Dialogue: Salud Mesoamerica
SSDL (2017)Munar, W., Hovmand, P.S., Fleming, C., & Darmstadt, GL (2015), Seminars in Perinatology, 39(5), 416-23.