This is my own light toolkit for taking a first pass at a system. I put it together for the work I do with practitioners and students, as a way in, not as the whole discipline. It draws on the systems thinking and system dynamics tradition; the work of Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Jay Forrester, and John Sterman; Elinor Ostrom on shared resources; Michel Godet on scenarios; and the strategic-clarity work of James Ritchie-Dunham, among others. I have simplified all of it on purpose.

The kit follows a simplified path, with a short guide and a printable worksheet for each step: a read-through of the whole, a read-through of each actor's world, a read-through of how they connect, a read-through of the story told as one, and a look at the underlying agreements. The sheets do not claim to be complete. They hand on a frame and a set of moves, not the judgment, which is learned by doing and by going back to the sources.

I am sharing these as they are, because they may be useful to review and use. I cannot promise they will fit any particular situation, and I cannot take responsibility for how they work in yours. Treat them as a starting point, and go to the source work when you want the full depth.

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