Why this module matters

  • Explains why “pushing harder” doesn’t work

    Learn how basins of attraction and tipping points explain why change efforts often snap back.

  • Gives you a map for complex systems

    Use the landscape metaphor to see the patterns, structures, and conditions shaping behaviour in your system.

  • Helps you find real leverage for change

    Use path dependency and the adjacent possible to spot interventions that shift conditions, not just symptoms.

Learning outcomes

A detailed breakdown of the main learning outcomes for this module

  • Be able to use metaphors to map your system more effectively

  • Apply core concepts for mapping, like attractors, boundaries, adjacent possible, and path dependence

  • Design a system’s landscape, including influencing factors and its boundaries

Practise with hands-on exercises

In this exercise kit, you will map a real situation where you feel stuck as a landscape — its boundaries, slopes, and tipping points — then work with your team to build on one person’s map and design a single, realistic next move that shifts the conditions rather than just pushing harder.

Instructor(s)

Marco Valente

Complexity expert

Marco helps leaders and teams, at the highest organizational levels, find their way forward in complex, messy challenges. Through a flexible array of simple practices, he will help you with approaches that are easy to use and that help you develop bigger minds over time. His fluency in facilitation provides us flexible design options to create meaningful leadership development experiences, and in creating the right dialogue formats for you to get great work done, find your answer in complexity, all the while learning and developing as a team and as leaders over time.

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