This free course provides a postgraduate level introduction to systems thinking in practice, or STiP. Systems thinking in practice itself has a long history and has developed from many different disciplinary traditions and used many different techniques and approaches, but all based on viewing complex situations as systems.
The ideas about reflection in this course invite you to use your own personal experience as a major resource for the exploration of change management with STiP. The course complements the OpenLearn course Understanding systems thinking in practice and its context is described in the OpenLearn Systems Thinking Hub.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- begin an inquiry into your own experience of practice, and that enables you to acknowledge, value and articulate your prior experience and its concerns.
- provide insights into how managing change and making sense of the complex and conflicted 'ways of the world' are understood by a practitioner using STiP
- lay the groundwork for how you might engage in practice with others in a social learning context
- appreciate the value of the concepts of critical social learning systems and communities of practice in learning with others.
First Published: 26/06/2025
Updated: 26/06/2025