This week, we want to spotlight some of the great new canvases in our updated toolkit. These cover a suite of tools to help you support people in thinking in systems, mapping, designing for transitions, and strategizing your ecosystem-building. The tools fit together into a coherent overall process. Take a look at the full toolkit for instructions or join us for the Systems Innovation game event this Wednesday to learn more.

The Si Design hub will host a walkthrough of the Systems Innovation Game on Jan 21st. The game introduces you to a systems innovation approach through a structured, card-based game. Participants are guided through key concepts and then invited to apply them directly to a shared challenge, learning alongside a cohort.

This week, we want to spotlight the introduction to network theory booklet and the video course at Si. This is a non-technical introduction to the amazing science of networks and how they work, offering new insights into understanding complex systems, finding higher leverage, and guiding change in new ways.

We are excited to invite you to an in-depth presentation on a six-year journey of systemic design by Toban Shadlyn. This session explores how a multidisciplinary team moved beyond "problem-solving" toward a portfolio approach - facilitating a shift in the state's healthcare landscape that eventually led to the legalization and opening of the first safe consumption sites in the United States.

This past week Rypple Foundation became the latest organization to join the Si Partner Network. Rypple is a purpose-led systems innovation organisation empowering governments, businesses, and communities to shift toward a proactive, health-ing mindset. They help societies move from reactive, treatment-driven systems toward environments where health is created, sustained, and shared.

Graphic of the week - this illustration explores the need to go “upstream” in order to find places of higher leverage for change in complex systems. 

Upstream problem-solving is an approach that aims to creatively address an issue at its source. The analogy is that of a river, where at its source it is but a small trickle, while once it reaches the sea, it may become a huge and forceful estuary. Take a look at this video tutorial for an overview of the concept.

In case you missed the live event, this session introduced how the Si Partner Network works. The Si Partner Network is a collaborative community for organisations working in systems thinking, innovation, and systems change. It creates shared infrastructure for collaboration, fosters alignment on key interests, and enables members to exchange knowledge and co-develop initiatives for transformative change.

With love from the whole happy team at info@systemsinnovation.network