Toolkits, Guides and Canvases

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Actor Mapping Canvas

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Use this canvas to map all the key actors influencing your system; formal and informal leaders, partners, funders, communities, critics, and resisters. It helps you understand their intentions, mindsets, incentives, and power sources so you can build coalitions, navigate dynamics, and engage more strategically for system-wide change.

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CIVIC SCENARIO BUILDING TOOLKIT An Applied Guide Using Systems Informed Foresight

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A practical toolkit for African civic actors to make sense of uncertainty and take strategic action. Using Systems Informed Foresight (SIF), you’ll explore drivers, map tensions, build scenarios, and design adaptive responses. Includes clear guidance and ready-to-use templates for teams, workshops, and strategic planning, ideal for CSOs, movements, and community organisations working in complex environments.

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Iceberg Framework Canvases

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These Iceberg Canvases turn systems thinking into practical, easy-to-use workshop tools. Move from events to patterns, structures, and mental models to uncover root causes and design better interventions. This set includes key “tools within a tool”; Behaviour-Over-Time Graphs, Connection Circles, and the Ladder of Inference for deeper systemic analysis.

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Iceberg Model Canvas

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This canvas helps you move beyond reacting to events by uncovering the deeper patterns, systemic structures, and mental models driving them. By exploring all four layers of the Iceberg Model, you discover where real leverage exists and design interventions that shift behaviours, beliefs, and long-term outcomes in your system.

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Practitioner’s Guide to Systems Leadership for Cross-Sector Collaboration

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A practical guide for anyone shaping change in complex systems. Learn the Systems Leadership Pathway aligned to the Systems Informed Foresight® (SIF®) Framework, apply systems-thinking tools, align diverse actors, design pathways for change, and lead systemic impact through the SIF® Sense–Shape–Shift approach. Packed with insights, tools, and facilitation exercises you can use immediately, all for $19.99.

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Problem Framing Canvas

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A practical tool to help you deeply understand the issue you’re working on by surfacing symptoms, patterns, structures, and assumptions. It guides you to define the real problem, challenge mental models, and identify leverage points so you avoid superficial fixes and design interventions that truly shift the system.

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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. These canvases help you frame systems, surface context, define desired futures, explore interventions, connect ideas, and plan transitions, equipping teams to co-create systemic change with clarity and confidence.

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The Systems Change Toolkit

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The Systems Change Toolkit gives you practical tools and methods to work across all Six Conditions of Systems Change. Learn to shift structural elements like policies, practices, and resource flows while transforming relationships, power dynamics, and mental models for lasting systemic impact.

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Three Horizons Canvas

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A strategic foresight tool that helps you explore what works today (H1), what is emerging or disrupting the system (H2), and the future you want to create (H3). It enables teams to see shifts early, challenge assumptions, link short-term actions to long-term goals, and design pathways toward a preferred future.

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Two Loops Model Canvas

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This canvas helps you understand how old systems decline and new ones emerge. It shows pioneers, stabilisers, champions, and networks across the transition. Use it to honour what is ending, nurture what is beginning, and guide teams through uncertainty with clarity about where energy and opportunity are shifting.