Systems thinking is a critical skill to understand and help drive social change. Systems mapping is a set of visual sense making and storytelling tools that use this systems thinking ‘lens’ to deepen our understanding of a social or environmental issue. Systems mapping also helps make these same issues understandable to a much broader audience (including the public, policymakers, and other students and changemakers).

This session was presented by: James Stauch

James Stauch is the Executive Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University where he has developed or cocreated social innovation, leadership, and systemsfocused learning programs for both undergraduates and the broader community. A former foundation executive and philanthropy and social change consultant, he is the lead author of an annual scan of trends and emerging issues, produced in partnership with the Calgary Foundation. His recent contributions to communitypartnered knowledge production include The Right to Eat Right; Aging in Thriving in the 21st Century; Merging for Good: A CaseBased Framework for Nonprofit Amalgamations; In Search of the Altruithm: AI and the Future of Social Good; The Problem Solver's Companion: A Practitioners' Guide to Starting a Social Enterprise, coproduced with Shaun Loney and Encompass Coop; and A Student Guide to Mapping a System, coproduced with SystemsLed Leadership and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford.

This workshop is hosted by the Institute for Community Prosperity at Mount Royal University as part of Map the System Canada 2023