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2 <br /> 1 Review retreat goals & desired outcomes <br /> 2 Ms. Chotas reviewed the retreat goals and desired outcomes: <br /> 3 • Better definition of issues <br /> 4 • Better appreciation of problems <br /> 5 • Understanding for how systems thinking could be helpful to us <br /> 6 • Identification of what we need to know more of and the new questions that are arising for <br /> 7 us re: hunger <br /> 8 <br /> 9 Ms. Chotas presented the Parking Lot as a place for ideas that weren't immediately relevant to <br /> 10 the topic of the retreat. Commissioners were invited to identify issues as they arise. <br /> 11 <br /> 12 <br /> 13 Systems Thinking introduction & overview with a focus on hunger in Orange County <br /> 14 Michael Goodman, Innovation Associates Organizational Learning <br /> 15 <br /> 16 Michael Goodman reviewed the objectives and agenda as follows: <br /> 17 Overall Objectives <br /> 18 • Understand what systems thinking is and its importance <br /> 19 • Learn a few basic Systems Thinking tools Gain hands on experience applying systems <br /> 20 thinking to food insecurity in Orange County <br /> 21 <br /> 22 Agenda <br /> 23 0 Why Good Intentions are Not Enough <br /> 24 • Observations about Systems <br /> 25 • Conventional Vs. Systems Thinking <br /> 26 • Why Systems Thinking? <br /> 27 • Background on Hunger and Food Insecurity in Orange County <br /> 28 • Fundamental Systems Thinking Framework& Case <br /> 29 • Team Iceberg Exercise <br /> 30 • Brief Introduction to the Language of Systems Thinking & Exercise (Time permitting) <br /> 31 • Introduction to Mental Models &Exercise <br /> 32 • Questions and Answers <br /> 33 <br /> 34 Mr. Goodman set the context for stories in the news and asked the small groups to reflect on <br /> 35 what the following stories have in common: <br /> 36 • Homeless shelters perpetuate homelessness <br /> 37 • Drug busts increase drug-related crime <br /> 38 • Food aid increases starvation <br /> 39 • Get tough prison sentences fail to reduce fear of violet crime <br /> 40 • Job training programs increase unemployment <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Small groups noted the following commonalities: <br /> 43 • Unintended consequences <br /> 44 0 Good intentions <br />