# What is Societal Thinking? In order to structure Societal Thinking as a systemic approach, we learnt more about established methodologies such as Design Thinking and Systems Thinking. Design Thinking offers a pathway to solve deeply contextual problems with empathy, affordance and iterations. Systems Thinking emphasises interconnectedness, feedback loops and emergence to navigate complex systems. Societal Thinking draws from emerging developments over the last few decades in how networks, ecosystems and technology can accelerate sustainable change at scale. It is grounded in fundamental ideas such as agency, abundance, diversity, and networks. It focuses simultaneously on enhancing the ability of people closest to problems to solve and that of the system to shift, setting in motion a generative cycle of change. Societal Thinking is a systemic approach to reimagine and realise exponential change. To apply Societal Thinking, we need to appreciate its four core components – the Societal Model and the mindset shifts, Core Values and design principles essential to design with the same. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.societalthinking.org/what-is-st/what-is-societal-thinking.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.