SiD Advanced
For those that grasp the fundamentals, have experience applying SiD, and want to dive deeper into topics such as network theory and system dynamics.
Who is it for
- Senior sustainability professionals
- Graduates of SiD Fundamentals or equivalent
- Those seeking a deepening of their learning in an intimate setting of 6-8 participants
Learning goals
- Deepen your understanding of integrated sustainability
- Explore system dynamics and complexity science
- Design systemic interventions
- Apply SiD to a case you are working on right now
The two days go into system dynamics and complexity science: how feedback holds a system where it is, why a structure keeps producing the same behaviour whoever happens to be running it, and how to tell a symptom apart from whatever is causing it.
The program is co-designed with the six to eight people in the room, and the case is one you are working on now. Most of the two days is spent designing systemic interventions for it and arguing about where they should land.
System dynamics, and the patterns that keep turning up
You work through the patterns that keep coming up, among them the tragedy of the commons, the eighty-twenty rule, the momentum that makes anything already in motion hard to turn, and the rebound effect that gives back the saving you have just made.
Scale gets its own session, because every added connection in a network carries a cost, and past a certain point more connection makes a system weaker. The last part of the two days is about the limits of what can be known: why a chaotic system resists prediction, how bias limits what a room is able to see, and the distance between recognising a pattern and being able to change it.
Participants receive a SiD Advanced Level 1 certificate.
