Day 11: Describe Your Focal Situation
Think of a situation you’d like to explore with a systems lens as we practice various systems approaches and views. It's good (since these 15-20 minutes of daily journaling add up) if it's something that matters to you to explore and understand, and begin to shape responses to. Write a few paragraphs describing the situation. We’ve been doing “warm-up” workouts in systems and seeing (observing, noticing, seeing more deeply), and now we’re shifting to applying system lenses and practices to a situation of particular interest to you.
"It is hard to overestimate the significance of putting thought in the world."
— Barbara Tversky, Mind in Motion
"problems do not present themselves to practitioners as givens. They must be constructed from the materials of problematic situations that are puzzling, troubling, and uncertain. In order to convert a problematic situation to a problem, a practitioner must do a certain kind of work. He [sic] must make sense of an uncertain situation that initially makes no sense."
— Donald Schön, The Reflective Practitioner