19 R1.T2 – Module 2: The role of Active Citizenship in EU in sustainable development awareness Video If you want to learn how systems thinking work, please watch the following video in this link Watch also, here this video about A Systems Story But why Systems Thinking is so important? The primary advantage that system thinking provide us is the fact that it recognizes that there is no one absolute solution of a problem. Instead of that it highlights that people have the opportunity to choose among various solutions through different perspectives and approaches. However, what it should be made clear to them is that all of the proposed solutions are going to have an impact either negative or positive, of minor or of major importance, on the other parts of the system. But undoubtedly, as a procedure helps us to broaden our thinking by finding and/or articulating problems in new and different ways. There are five key principles that define system thinking (Aventis Learning Group, 2020): ü It promotes thinking of the “big picture” ü It facilitates the balance between short-term and long-term perspectives ü It recognizes the dynamic, complex, and interdependent nature of systems ü It takes into account not only measurable but also non-measurable factors ü It reminds to us that we are all part of the systems in which we function and that we each influence those systems even as we are being influenced by them In the following graph you will see the differences between a linear thinker and a system thinker. Source: https://itchronicles.com/technology/systems-thinking-the-vocabulary-tools-and-theory/
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