Mentrix Method is Modeling

Everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own. – Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

We can’t design systems alone. To understand what’s happening, and what matters, we need to synthesize multiple perspectives.

Modeling is moving concepts out of people’s minds and into a shareable space where other people can reflect on them.  It is making relevant concepts – and the relationship between them – visible.

Modeling is so inherent in the Mentrix Method that is isn’t happening if there is no modeling. That would be like going out to dinner together but not eating anything. Somehow, somewhere, we need to engage concepts. Modeling is moving ideas around, shifting and evolving and clarifying them.

Discerning which templates, tools, and frameworks fit your circumstances is hard to do. As you experiment, this section will include shapes and exercises that have helped. They aren’t recipes … feel free to play with and adapt them.

Or just open a digital whiteboard and begin.