Contexture Systemic Design Studio
Training

Most programmes teach one approach. We teach the whole landscape.

Systems thinking is a family of approaches, not a single method. Each one came from a different discipline, and each is good at a different kind of problem, so the skill is knowing which one fits your work.

We introduce that landscape, work through where each approach fits, and look at how they behave here: the institutions, the culture, and the way decisions get made.

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First course

Patterns of Systems Thinking

Part of the Navigating Systems Thinking programme

An introduction to the patterns of thinking behind systems approaches: systems literacy rather than a single method.

Format
Two days in person, in Riyadh.
When
November 2026.
Afterwards
Roughly two weeks of online follow-through.
First step
Free information webinars, with dates to follow.

Details will be posted here as they are confirmed. You can also get in touch to stay informed.

Who it's for

For practitioners working at the ecosystem level.

You lead ecosystem work inside an organisation. A mid-to-senior practitioner responsible for initiatives at that scale, looking to work at it more confidently.

You advise on ecosystem initiatives as a consultant. Working across design, strategy, innovation, and technology, and looking to sharpen the tools you bring to clients.

You have built your skills in design thinking. This is the natural next step: working at the scale of whole systems rather than single problems.

Learning community

A Saudi systems community, learning from the world and adapting it here.

The course is a beginning, not an end. Alongside it we are growing a community that keeps learning together: connecting with systems communities around the world, then bringing what they find back to be tested, argued over, and adapted for how things work here.

No one adapts a practice to a place on their own. We are doing it collectively, in the open, with everyone who joins.

Coming as the community grows

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Custom training

From single workshops to team programmes, built around the work you are already doing.

If your team needs systems thinking for a particular challenge, we shape the teaching around it: your sector, your constraints, and a real project to practise on rather than a case study from somewhere else.

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Let's chat

Let's discuss how you can learn systems thinking.

Let's have a conversation about which learning approach would suit you the best. We're happy to build our programming around your needs.

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