Systemic Design Group
Who are we?
The Systemic Design Group is an open, trans-disciplinary practice, founded in order to undertake the complex socio-technical issues we are facing. We seek to co-create community, connection and care for sustainable change. Local, inclusive and using simple language. Leveraging our curiosity, creativity as well as our vulnerabilities, we firmly believe that empathy and optimism are at the heart of effectively tackling the messes we are embedded in.
What is our focus?
We seek to make Systems Thinking more approachable and Design (Thinking) more impactful, to co-create clarity in complexity. We empower changemakers to surface their potential, wisdom, networks, and energy for driving systems change. We help define principles, co-create missions and visions as well as change paradigms.
What are our activities?
We help develop theories of change and help identify strategic interventions that leverage limited resources for the greatest impact. We facilitate holistic decision-making processes that help identify the forces maintaining the status quo, which are revealed through systems mapping, root cause analysis, Appreciative Inquiry, HCD research, network analysis, Impact-driven research & evaluation allowing for strategic planning and better decision making. We offer an engaging, interdisciplinary journey to collaboratively create a clear, actionable narrative for systems change to co-design innovative processes, create inclusive community engagement, build coalitions & networks as well as creative partnerships and collective impact initiatives.
Benefits include a stronger relationships between stakeholders, built on trust and mutual appreciation, towards a powerful, shared goal, as well as strategic action plans with broad buy-in and momentum for implementation through improved organizational culture to reflect values, stronger leaders at all levels of the organization, communication tools that support critical conversation necessary for making progress and conflict transformation, not just resolution, for deeper coalitions.