**Pattern Name:**
Systems Apprenticeship
**Introduction:** Systems Practitioners must have skills and must do systems stuff. New systems practitioners can best learn sibe-by-side with master craftsmen (women).
**Illustration:**
Masters and Apprentice
Farrier and apprentice.
**CONTEXT:**
Much about systems is taught. There is much theory and many tools. Tools and theory alone do not make a craft. There is the issue of learning in the doing. Who can teach others in the doing? One would like to learn from a master. Who are the masters? Where would you look for one? Where should you avoid looking for master systems craftsmen? CAUTION: neither classes nor degrees are apprenticeships.
**PROBLEM:**
**It is truly difficult to become skillful working with living complex social systems.**
**Forces:**
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Identify master system craftsmen and apprentice yourself to them.**
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