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Actor Mapping Canvas

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A systems mapping tool used in strategy sessions, stakeholder analysis, and programme design to understand who influences a system. It helps identify key actors, formal and informal leaders, partners, funders, communities, critics, and resisters, and examine their interests, incentives, mindsets, and sources of power. It supports building coalitions and engaging more strategically for system-wide change.

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Backcasting Canvas

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A strategic planning and foresight tool used in workshops, strategy sessions, and foresight labs to move from a defined future back to present-day action. It helps participants describe a preferred future, identify the conditions needed to reach it, and work backwards to map key shifts, experiments, and immediate steps. It supports structured planning in complex social, policy, and market contexts.

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Causal Layered Analysis Canvas

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A practical Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) workshop canvas to analyse systems and redesign them from the inside out. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants from visible issues to deeper beliefs, then flips those assumptions to reconstruct alternative futures. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

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Futures Wheel Canvas

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A practical Futures Wheel workshop canvas to map the consequences of change across a system. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants from a selected signal through first-, second-, and third-order effects, then distills strategic insights on emerging risks and opportunities. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

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Iceberg Framework Canvases

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The Iceberg Framework is a facilitation-ready “tool of tools” designed to explore complexity beyond surface events. Structured across events, patterns, structures, and mental models, it integrates tools like Behaviour-Over-Time Graphs, Connection Circles, and the Ladder of Inference to guide deeper systemic conversations, uncover insights, and support more informed and strategic action.

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Iceberg Model Canvas

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The Iceberg Canvas helps you understand how visible events are driven by deeper patterns, underlying structures, and mental models shaping system behaviour, enabling more informed decisions. It is ideal for facilitators addressing systemic challenges, helping uncover where real leverage lies to design interventions that shift behaviours, beliefs, and long-term outcomes.

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Problem Framing Canvas

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The Problem Framing Canvas helps you clearly define the problem before designing solutions. It guides you to articulate the issue, surface assumptions, explore different perspectives, and map what is happening. It sharpens problem definition so effort is directed at the right entry points and supports more focused decisions on where to intervene for meaningful systemic change.

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STEEPLE Horizon Scan Canvas

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A practical STEEPLE Horizon Scan workshop canvas to map signals of change shaping a system. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants to identify emerging shifts across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, and ethical dimensions, and assess why they matter. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

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Systemic Design Canvases

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A full suite of tools for mapping complex systems, building shared understanding, and designing long-term solutions. The canvases help you frame systems, surface context, define desired futures, explore interventions, connect ideas, and plan transitions. They equip teams to co-create systemic change.

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Three Horizons Canvas

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A strategic foresight tool used to make sense of change in a system and guide long-term planning. It maps current system performance (H1), emerging shifts and disruptions (H2), and the preferred future (H3). It helps teams identify transition gaps, question assumptions, and connect present actions to future direction.

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Two Loops Model Canvas

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A systems change tool used in strategy, transition design, and facilitation of complex change processes. It helps map how established systems decline while new systems emerge. It identifies actors and dynamics across both loops, including pioneers, stabilisers, champions, and networks. It supports recognising what is ending, what is emerging, and where energy is shifting to guide decisions in periods of uncertainty.