Systems Thinking Genealogical Directory & Resources
Welcome To The Systems Thinking Voices In Canada Website!
The time is forever ripe for the Canadian Context Systems Thinking Community to show the world who we are and continue writing our genealogical narrative together in our own words. The Systems Thinking Voices In Canada (STVIC) website aims to build a directory of systems thinkers through the full lifespan of lifelong learning, and display community resources from all branches of the Systems Thinking discipline. To this end STVIC offers a free opportunity for Canadian context systems thinkers to register in the STVIC Directory and join the STVIC Community.
As a registrant you can publish your learner activities and projects on the STVIC website as a short summary or with more specific details that can be submitted alongside or anytime after the short summary is submitted. Overall you can submit your work at your own pace and depth of detail for as short or as long as you wish. Or not at all! Registration alone in the STVIC Directory brings your human presence and unique blend of resources that build and strengthen the Canadian context systems thinking community.
The STVIC community is here for the longterm! STVIC stretches forward into the future and back into history to the period around 1937 when Systems Science became officially acknowledged as an independent discipline in modern academia. Explore the Full In Tribute Archive where you can meet Ludwig von Bertalanffy and other inspirers of this community who chose Canada to be part of their lives or were Canadian citizens from birth. This unique archive wishes to revivify our past by growing a hindsight directory of contributors when the Canadian context systems thinking community first arose. STVIC is grateful for the example set by Canadian Indigenous Peoples whose sophisticated systems awareness has been evolving for thousands of centuries in Deep Time geological memory.
Watch the Introduction Video below to learn about several unique STVIC website features, the learning culture at STVIC, and more. You can also tour the website directly by selecting from the choices in the following section.
“It takes a village to raise systems thinkers!” Sign Up in the STVIC Directory to help build this village today!
Familiarize yourself with core concepts of systems thinking by immersing yourself in a fun activity with pickup sticks in Experience ST
Browse the multiple related website aims including networking, history, education and more in the Quest section of About
Acquaint yourself with students, professionals and lifelong learners building Canadian context systems thinking literacy in The Directory
See the gritty challenges and Aha! moments of students as they learn from a systems perspective in Learning
Discover innovative projects that are bringing systems thinking into professional focus at the intersection of many disciplines in Projects
Explore the community knowledge contributed by directory registrants like books, organizations & more in Resources
Select STVIC Community Explained below to view an infogram explaining how the STVIC community is part of the larger Canadian context systems thinking community. The STVIC community represents an unknowable portion of this larger community because of the sparse documentation about the historical Canadian context systems thinking community. STVIC wishes to provide an online home for every person in the Canadian context systems thinking community whether past or present, novice or seasoned, in Canada or overseas, Canadian or non-Canadian in recognition of your beneficial influence on Canada’s historical, cultural, social, political and economic identity.
Do You Self-Identify As A Systems Thinker?
Do you use systems thinking skills in your organization or personal business? Are you a student learning systems thinking skills? Or a lifelong learner discovering systems thinking for the first time? Do you teach systems thinking skills in public education or use systems thinking in research?
It Takes A Village To Raise A Systems Thinker!
We sincerely hope that when travelling around the STVIC website you will be inspired to sign up in the STVIC directory and become an ambassador for early systems thinking scholars who may be seeking more visible support from experienced scholars. You are also helping document Canada’s systems thinking ancestry by registering with this genealogical directory. Together we can leverage the voices and ideas that are driving systems thinking forward in Canada!
We Know Your Time Is Valuable
We have developed easy-to-answer questionnaires to register yourself in the STVIC Directory and contribute your learning activity and project high level information. The Personal Bio, Learning Summary and Project Summary questionnaires only ask for information that we feel provides the highest impact engagement and community resource details to website viewers while respecting your personal privacy preferences. For your convenience the Learning Summary Questionnaire and Project Summary Questionnaire can be sent in any time after your Personal Bio is published on the website.
Having said this, we encourage registrants to expand on your summary learning activity or project information and contribute an Extended Learning or Extended Project video or text. This video or text can be sent in any time after submitting your Learning Summary Questionnaire or Project Summary Questionnaire. We also provide optional prompt questions to inspire and guide the creation of your video or text content. Go to the Sign Up section for further details.
Systems Thinking Frequently Asked Questions
What is a system?
Where did the word system come from?
What is systems thinking?
Who coined the term systems thinking?
Is there affinity between Systems, Critical and Design Thinking?
