Systems Thinking
for Sustainability
Unlock the power of systems thinking to revolutionize your approach to sustainability. This course explores essential techniques and insights, equipping you to tackle today’s complex ecological challenges with a holistic, interdisciplinary mindset.
Programme highlights
In today’s fast-evolving world, mastering systems thinking is essential for sustainability professionals to navigate and solve the complex, interconnected environmental and social challenges we face.
Professional
New start date coming soon
7 sessions, 6 weeks
£950
Hybrid
You will be expected to attend 3 sessions in person.
2 hours per week
90 min online interactive sessions with self-paced prep.
Upcoming events
Why Systems Thinking?
The modern economy is suddenly shaped by a Race to Artificial Intelligence. Yet, the real – increasingly existential – race is whether we can exercise Sustainable Intelligence before it is too late.
Systems thinking, newly on the rise in many fields, but still largely absent in professional settings, holds the key because it explains why so many widely accepted sustainability ‘solutions’ continue to disappoint and identifies alternative strategies that may yet work.
This course presents the key techniques and insights of systems thinking for those seeking better answers for today’s sustainability challenges.
What you need to know
LIS leads in interdisciplinary education, empowering you with expert systems thinking skills essential for confronting and solving today's complex sustainability issues urgently.
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Who is this course for?
This course may be of interest to those:
- Working in the sustainability field (in private, public, or non-profit sectors) who seek a deeper understanding of the fundamental drivers of social and ecological problems.
- Wishing to learn more about complexity and systems thinking.
- Experiencing frustration or dissonance with today’s sustainability discourse (and possibly their own sustainability roles), but who have had limited opportunity to explore the underlying reasons for their frustration.
- Seeking clearer understanding of why there can be so much widespread and seemingly earnest commitment to ‘sustainability’, yet certain problems only seem to be getting worse.
- Eager to understand and identify more fundamental and authentic sustainability solutions.
Structure of the course
The course consists 6 online sessions.
The course follows a ‘U-shaped’ structure of ‘unlearning to relearn’ that leads participants from the ‘surface’ of today’s problems to the ‘deeper’ insights of systems thinking and then back to the surface to reflect on sustainability solutions with a newly acquired systems perspective.
Programme overview
Gain critical systems thinking skills, understand complex sustainability challenges, and develop innovative, interdisciplinary strategies to drive real, impactful change in your field.
You will be expected to attend 3 sessions in person.
*This course structure is provisional and may change as we finalise the content.
Grasp Key Systems Thinking and Complexity Concepts for Sustainability
Understand Ecological, Social, and Economic Systems as Interconnected Complex Systems for Sustainability
Recognize the Relationship Between Private, Public Policy, and Cultural Responses to Sustainability Challenges
Build a Framework for Understanding the Evolution of Sustainability Discourse Over the Last 50 Years
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of the unique principles, complexities, and practices of systems thinking, and how to effectively apply these insights to tackle sustainability challenges in their professional lives.
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