Mari Gasiorowicz from Public Health Madison & Dane County joined the October Immersion to help outline systems thinking, an approach to problem-solving that focuses on examining the interconnectedness of a system’s components. This is a valuable approach in public health where we are often addressing complex problems that require deep understanding of structures, relationships, and root causes in order to improve health outcomes.
Session Resources
- Presentation recording (YouTube)
- Waters Center for Systems Thinking
- The Systems Thinking Playbook
- VIDEO: Systems Thinking: A Group Demonstration (YouTube)
- Habits Cards
- Habits one-pager
- Key takeaways one-pager (PDF)
Additional Suggested References/Reading
- The Waters of System Change
- The Dawn of System Leadership
- Using Story to Change Systems
- What is Your Organization’s Core Theory of Success?
- On-demand course: Systems Practice
- A Primer: Thinking in Systems
- Systems Thinking for Social Change
- deBeaumont: Leading Systems Change in Public Health: A Field Guide for Practitioners
- Reinventing Organizations
- The Art of Powerful Questions