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Free A5 toolkit · Redstring

Redstring systems thinking toolkit

For the writers and designers who build story worlds.

The Systems Thinking Toolkit, Redstring edition: eleven tools for mapping a problem as a system, seven printable games to play with a team, and a plan on a page, all worked through an example from your field. It prints at A5.

Eleven tools

  • Rich picture
  • Seen by, seen as
  • Boundary rings
  • Trend line and problem statement
  • Enablers and inhibitors
  • Causal loop diagram
  • Tell the story of the map
  • Find the leverage
  • Stock and flow
  • Theory of change
  • How will we know?

Seven games, and a plan on a page

  • Link It
  • What Breaks First
  • Power and Interest
  • Loop Bingo
  • The Leverage Auction
  • The 15-Minute Ecosystem
  • The Pre-mortem

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The tools are adapted from the Government Office for Science systems thinking toolkit, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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