This canvas is designed to help us think through where we might intervene in a system to enable change, where we can have high leverage for systems change. This is done using the iceberg to help us consider on what level we are affecting the system and where we have the capacity to effect change.
To identify leverage points, we need to consider at what level of the iceberg we are interviewing and the level of capacity we have to effect change there. To assess the degree of leverage to an intervention point, we can use the iceberg model and ask which level it is on: event, trend, structure, or paradigm. The lower the iceberg, the higher the leverage.
Capacity is a measure of our ability to effect change at the intervention point. Key considerations include our degree of connections to people and organizations at that point, possible resources we could bring together around that locus, our organizational ability to deliver on a project around the intervention point, etc.
The template includes a YouTube video that explains how to use the board with an example.
