SiD Fundamentals 3-day Integrated Sustainability Training
Three days of learning to work as a change agent, in whatever area you want to have an effect on. You use the framework and its tools on real cases throughout.
Who is it for
- Business leaders
- Project managers
- Concept developers
- Freelance consultants
- Action researchers
Learning goals
- Identify core concepts of systems thinking and network theory underlying sustainability
- Interpret systemic behaviors in society and how they relate to sustainability transitions
- Perform quick impact scans, and design strategies and road maps for systemic sustainable impact
- Apply SiD principles and tools to your real-world case
You work in a mixed team, put together from different backgrounds on purpose, using the framework on real cases the way it gets used on a live project. The theory sits under the method: how a system is put together and how to read one. You also get the eight ELSI layers, which run from energy and materials through ecosystems, species, culture and economy to health and happiness.
Over three days people get quicker at reading a system: which parts of it matter, how those parts connect, and where the behaviour is coming from.
The framework is Symbiosis in Development, documented in full at ThinkSiD.org.
The five steps, worked on a live case
The three days follow the five steps of the method. You set goals at the level of the system rather than the object, with the boundary conditions and the indicators that come with them, and then draw the system across space, time and context.
You then work through the maps until you can see how the system behaves. You look for interventions at system, network and object level, and put them together as a phased roadmap with milestones and the people who carry them. On the last day you check that roadmap against the goals you set on the first morning.
Three days: two consecutive days, and a follow-up day in the same week.
Participants receive a SiD Fundamentals certificate.
