Compassionate Systems Workspace

Interactive tools for systems thinking and compassionate leadership. Create a workspace, share a link, and collaborate in real-time.

Day 1

Systems Thinking Iceberg

Explore the layers beneath visible events — from patterns and behavioral dynamics to the underlying structures that shape what we see, influenced by mental models and artifacts.

Generative Social Field

Explore the relational field between people and the broader social contexts that shape our interactions — from family and classroom to organization and society.

Leadership Capacities (Three-Legged Stool)

Assess your core leadership capacities across three dimensions: Aspiration, Reflection, and Systems Awareness — each supporting the seat of leadership.

Day 2

Ladder of Inference

Trace how we move from raw data through selected observations, meanings, and assumptions to conclusions, beliefs, and actions — and how emotional stuckness or awareness shifts our journey.

Systems Awareness Mandala

Map your awareness across four dimensions — Perceptual, Relational, Somatic, and Aspirational — and four capacities — Awareness, Connection, Insight, and Purpose — to identify strengths and learning edges.

Day 3

Circle of Connectedness

Explore the spectrum of human connection — from emotional disconnect through empathic distress and cognitive empathy to profound inter-connectedness.

Shifting the Burden

Map the systems archetype where symptomatic solutions undermine fundamental solutions — revealing the reinforcing loops that keep systems stuck.

Kantor's Four Player Model

Explore the four conversational roles — Move, Follow, Oppose, and Bystand — to understand team dynamics and your habitual patterns.

Creative Tension

Hold the creative tension between your vision and current reality — the generative force that drives meaningful change.

Stock and Flow

Explore systems dynamics through the bathtub metaphor — identify what fills up and what drains any accumulation (stock) your group wants to understand. Used successfully with learners of all ages to make abstract concepts tangible.

Day 4

Mandala for Systems Change

Assess the four elements of systems change — Capacity Building, Practice, Research, and Community Building — and the creative tensions between them.

Designing Learning Experiences

Map how a chosen tool brings greater intention to every domain of learning design — from curriculum and pedagogy to relationships and the self.

Supplementary

Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

Map the eight primary emotions and their intensity levels — from mild to extreme — and explore how adjacent emotions combine to form complex emotional experiences like love, awe, and contempt.