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A couple of part-whole System maps of John and Mr. Abbott to introduce the reader to the people in the story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/07b473cf-53e1-4e75-b578-4e87106e4ab1/IMG_1329.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 2. My first mental model of John’s words, a simple action-reaction Relationship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/97af9baf-ba09-4d26-9aa9-e50df651607e/IMG_1330.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 3. We can map my interaction with John as a Distinction. If you look at Map 2 and then back at this map, making a Distinction shares Zoom out action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/6d9506f9-2285-463a-9bf1-a8df9ef1ad46/IMG_1332.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 4. Mapping the whole interaction as a Distinction. Because John and I had a good relationship and no one else was in the room, John was able to take my reply in a light and humorous way. He did’t see me as sarcastically complaining about his complaining about Abbott’s complaining. Had other students been in the room, I think it would’ve been harder for John to be as light. Since John noticed the humor and laughed, I’m confident he recognized the distinction I was making. Note: I intentionally left out the relationship pattern on the other side of the distinction line to highlight the Distinction pattern. I could add Relationship lines and adjust the map so we could consider this event from another perspective where Relationships are highlighted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/8a917d3e-253e-4c25-8185-a0533041fbdd/IMG_1336.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 5. Instead of the Distinction pattern, I could also model John’s remarks as a Perspective. The view is Mr. Abbott’s complaining, John’s point is conflict, and the Perspective is “whine-ass.” Since John as the point is vague in terms of understanding the situation, I’ve zoomed in +1 to conflict because it works as a conceptual point in this situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/a075ba93-dd84-4d13-8a49-00b2056a148b/IMG_1338.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 6. After I’d spoken, the Perspective map looks like this. I’ve added a Perspective on a Perspective and a Distinction line as a boundary. My conceptual point is reflecting, because I was trying to mirror what I was seeing without using a conflict lens. Generally, effective mirroring requires having an established connection with the person. (Unless it is already embedded in cultural practices.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/c6d5b2d1-fdfe-44c9-97a4-3e121f0c0fa7/IMG_1339.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 7: If I update the map to add John’s aha as another perspective, it looks like this. If you’ve considered fractals before, you can begin to see a fractal emerging as Perspectives are added while zooming out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/de2ee517-79df-4a2c-aa5d-dbe493ae552f/IMG_1340.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 8. Are you complaining about complaining? - Make it stand out Map 8. Finishing up with this map, I’m representing the story as an action-reaction Relationship. The action is a system where the parts are structured as points, views & perspectives. https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-gspxx-3ne3f-3bwsk-b6apr-ja3ns-37zmj monthly 0.5 2026-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/920d44ec-e011-491c-a504-4ed933cef518/IMG_1313.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 7. “That’s easy Hathaway, everyone thinks for themselves.” - Make it stand out Map 1. Basic Relationship map. Relationships are interactions. Every Relationship is comprised of 2 elements, action & reaction. Changing perspectives on this map could change what we see; the arrow might go both ways, or switch directions. Reality is complex. While we cannot ever map everything, we can be explicit and accurate about the organization and information which improves our mental model’s alignment with reality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/5e2cd674-ba16-4e21-ac4d-cfb4a59842b0/IMG_1303.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 7. “That’s easy Hathaway, everyone thinks for themselves.” - Make it stand out Map 2. My Humanities partner and I were looking for student learning to transfer. Transfer is a Relationship between prior learning (action) and new learning (reaction). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/28fefeab-59bb-444b-93d2-d7b6088063d7/IMG_1307.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 7. “That’s easy Hathaway, everyone thinks for themselves.” - Make it stand out Map 3. Our informal discussion in this example was basically a small group Systems Zoom in Move; we took a whole (Holocaust) and broke it into parts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/0dc59167-a5b9-4c63-a7a7-0727f90f75cd/IMG_1309.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 7. “That’s easy Hathaway, everyone thinks for themselves.” - Make it stand out Map 4. Here, I’m mapping my question for Ian. The discussion was a system made of parts, I mixed the System with a Dio List Move, making the system the identity. All identities have an other, so I matched this other as an action-reaction Relationship. In later posts, I will describe this more precisely using DSRP dynamics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/2db1cd5b-9037-4735-a3e7-81ca130c1d11/IMG_1310.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 7. “That’s easy Hathaway, everyone thinks for themselves.” - Make it stand out Map 5. Here’s my map of Ian’s response. He used the parts from the system discussion as actions for the reaction, Holocaust. This made it easy for him to recognize information that was an anti-cause to Holocaust, or a cause to Not Holocaust. His response struck me to the ground that day. Because he answered so quickly, I suspect he’d already organized this mental model long before I asked the question. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/50f435d0-4f0c-4e7d-a2eb-9c52e3c50db2/IMG_1311.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 7. “That’s easy Hathaway, everyone thinks for themselves.” - Make it stand out Map 6. Using DSRP makes you a little more aware each day. This allows you to connect at least 1 or 2 more important dots a day than without DSRP. The added awareness and the couple extra dots compound to much, in much less time. https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-gspxx-3ne3f-3bwsk-b6apr monthly 0.5 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/2bf2b85e-6419-4b8c-9ee3-f3bb0af3af02/IMG_1293.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 6.You can’t use a claim to support a claim, can you? - Make it stand out Map 1: My relationship with the prospect of teaching a 1st person perspective on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. At first I was going to organize this information as a perspective on a perspective. Mapping my thoughts back then though, this structure seems more accurate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/3f49ae44-9e21-43fa-ae2a-e6c6eb3089fd/IMG_1294.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 6.You can’t use a claim to support a claim, can you? - Make it stand out Map 2: A map of the book, Red Scarf Girl as a system with parts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/20bcd606-df33-4e8d-8fff-6acc5fcaa619/IMG_1295.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 6.You can’t use a claim to support a claim, can you? - Make it stand out Map 3: I referred to a poster something like this to scaffold writing assignments. Our class discussions made it clear that claims must be supported by evidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/e3231858-f153-43f8-8ea3-cc3ff84ec454/IMG_1296.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 6.You can’t use a claim to support a claim, can you? - Make it stand out Map 4: Katie took our argument system and turned it into the point of a perspective. Argument became a powerful and transferable lens. She was building on what Ian had done in the hallway when he dismissed social comments that lacked evidence. Though this was a crystallization moment for me, I was still using rudimentary DSRP. Because of this, Argument was the primary explicit model we were aware of, and DSRP structures were secondary and faded in and out of our awareness. I was constantly referencing DSRP patterns, but not fluently considering elements other than part-whole and identity / other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/10657b40-13bf-4d37-873e-20e87d9cdf69/IMG_1297.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 6.You can’t use a claim to support a claim, can you? - Make it stand out Map 5: A simple action-reaction relationship. The success in this instance was our using argument as the point on a view in perspectives. Reorganizing this map is a useful lead in to simultaneity practice. 1. I have modeled a perspective here as a relationship. 2. The action here could become a reaction, the reaction an action… https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-gspxx-3ne3f-3bwsk-3pws4 monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/37759650-7195-4634-a37e-ea2a23c0b2f7/IMG_1275.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 5. That’s just a claim - Make it stand out Map 1: This is the basic argument model we started with that year. It is a system with parts. The model was posted on the wall. I referred to the poster during discussions about writing assignments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/953010b1-09d1-42e0-97a3-a5acc2064097/IMG_1284.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 5. That’s just a claim - Make it stand out Map 2: Ian’s first cognitive move (Is / Is Not List) was to identify his peer’s statement as “Just a claim.” His Is Not was unstated, but easy to figure out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/a243c080-efed-4a5d-a2d0-d262217b02cf/IMG_1285.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 5. That’s just a claim - Make it stand out Map 3: Once Ian had claim as a part, he zoomed out to look for the other parts of an argument. Based on his social awareness he hadn’t heard any evidence or explanations to support the claim, so he dismissed his peer’s remarks. Maps 2 & 3 also begin to demonstrate DSRP dynamics. I’ll get to dynamics in later posts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/9aea31b1-6a70-44c2-aa0c-c22d795bf74f/IMG_1290.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 5. That’s just a claim - Make it stand out Map 4: This map builds from content in post 4, What is thinking and learning? This Dio List seems so obvious to me now, but I couldn’t organize it when Ian spoke in the hallway that day. I needed a little more observational evidence. That additional observation is the example coming in post 7. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/0e5ea6aa-f965-4b7d-9f0a-df44583477bd/IMG_1281.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 5. That’s just a claim - Make it stand out Map 6: A Perspective is the interaction between a point and a view. My point here is CTE, the view is the collaborative creation of the Civil Discourse Framework.The resulting perspective is high CTE. https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-gspxx-3ne3f-3bwsk-wfapp monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/2b0748ec-0fff-4898-9f22-a2d02ce92893/IMG_1241.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 4. What is thinking and learning? - Make it stand out Map 1: Cognitive Move: Distinction identity/other List (Dio List). At the time of this experience, I had an implicit sense I needed this map. While I was as Derek Cabrera describes, “lost in the information,” I was conscious of being lost. Lost in a sea of past practices and best practices both built on assumptions I couldn’t see explicitly enough to interrogate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/8e68f2ea-8d57-4985-ac1a-e4d3d2f27950/IMG_1242.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 4. What is thinking and learning? - Make it stand out Map 2: I was implicitly aware of this information, though completely unaware that making clear distinctions was a crucial skill. Today, I would reorganize this information into a causal web map (Relationship pattern) and then add points on that view. I’m sticking to this distinction map because it most accurately describes my mental model at the time, and as a distinction it demands serious questioning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/7f46f3f9-8fc3-452f-97ee-5c9771fe425c/IMG_1233.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 4. What is thinking and learning? - Make it stand out Map 3: The map above is written to start as a Dio List. I’ve left more space in between to capture the concept chasm. If I was mapping this today, I’d surely map a continuum on leadership as well. From a content perspective, as a coach I’d thought and read about leadership for years so I thought I had some understanding of it. Whatever I did know about leadership from coaching, didn’t transfer to the school setting, that’s for sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/71609fb1-80b7-4294-a6f4-6a70adae7555/IMG_1227.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 4. What is thinking and learning? - Make it stand out Map 4: Sometimes mapping a crisp distinction starts by being explicit with what something is NOT. Being clear about the boundary is kind of like starting a puzzle with the outside edges. In collaborative endeavors prioritizing a map of both the identity AND other of a crucial distinction is even more critical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/ef0cd509-8ce8-4343-bf43-ffe83b088e37/IMG_1239.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 4. What is thinking and learning? - Make it stand out Map 5: Dio List aka Is / Is Not List. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/25aa2f4c-68fb-4d70-b41f-3cb26b32462d/IMG_1238.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 4. What is thinking and learning? - Make it stand out Map 6: A perspective of a perspective. Perspectives are the interaction of a point and a view, so Pvp in this case has more info and structure than the Dio List map above. https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-gspxx-3ne3f-3bwsk-wdtnm monthly 0.5 2026-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/3f9e466b-894c-419d-9589-61294b3f4682/IMG_1197.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 3. People get really angry when you ask that! - Make it stand out Map 1: Single perspective map of Abby’s Pvp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/3a5e0155-5f18-42e7-b0ac-98e597c99d84/IMG_1198.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 3. People get really angry when you ask that! - Make it stand out Map 2: My Perspective Circle on Abby’s report about her run. Purpose is a go to point for me (based on some other watershed models). Admittedly, there are times it should be ruled out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/87584c0d-75e6-4290-ba08-152fb86fa102/IMG_1201.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 3. People get really angry when you ask that! - Make it stand out Map 3: Two points on the same view can create a shared mental model, without being identical. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/a7051d63-b6a0-4809-a034-1c2a733de8f5/IMG_1200.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 3. People get really angry when you ask that! - Make it stand out Map 4: A map of Abby’s perspective on my suggestion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/fb739928-d097-453b-a558-de548cba9cde/IMG_1196.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 3. People get really angry when you ask that! - Make it stand out Map 5: I suspect there is more than one possible point that results in an angry perspective with this view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/9f88c9c5-e394-4731-8190-f8113a3102cf/IMG_1206.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 3. People get really angry when you ask that! - Make it stand out Map 6: What are possible points on the view here that make sense? https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/post2 monthly 0.5 2026-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/5732fe34-6c2b-466e-ad7b-c761bc4c2539/IMG_1172.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 2. She’s right, she’s just looking at it from a different perspective - Make it stand out Map 1: While I'd like to say my lack of awareness here was totally due to that fact that I was still super green with DSRP, I still get turned around at times. When I’m turned around, collaborators and DSRP maps are invaluable. I’d also say my thoughts here overlap with what psychology calls Expert Bias, and what Buddhists call expert mind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/9a76197d-28db-408e-b5e8-5e8268557305/IMG_1181.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 2. She’s right, she’s just looking at it from a different perspective - Make it stand out Map 2: My mental model while considering Julie’s response. The students observed an extended silence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/2429033b-1b69-4a58-8936-8d35e52fa0ce/IMG_1173.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 2. She’s right, she’s just looking at it from a different perspective - Make it stand out Map 3: Casey’s perspective using another simple point, view, perspective map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/31707053-9944-4dd3-9ab9-cc619cda3762/IMG_1179.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 2. She’s right, she’s just looking at it from a different perspective - Make it stand out Map 4: The 3 perspectives in one map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/5bee9945-d3e4-4d82-91b8-81acf5c06e4b/IMG_1180.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 2. She’s right, she’s just looking at it from a different perspective - Make it stand out Map 5: Looking to learn something new in a culture rife with systems profiting from confirmation bias is no easy task. https://www.watershedpvps.org/483-practitioner-blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-gspxx-ns05u monthly 0.5 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/97d33a86-2d74-486f-ac98-481d137bc654/Pvp.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 1. Get over it, that’s the way the world is… - Make it stand out Map 1: Every perspective is an interaction between a point and a view. In regular conversations, people rarely clarify the elements of perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/b4a5eb98-40db-4c43-9aef-993779c19a3d/IMG_1130.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 1. Get over it, that’s the way the world is… - Make it stand out Map 2: My initial mental model of Jessica’s perspective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/a0a105f3-d86a-4265-b791-1a62e697cd2a/IMG_1104+2.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 1. Get over it, that’s the way the world is… - Make it stand out Map 3: My mental model of Jessica’s perspective after her response https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/4374e7c5-ec59-48b0-9ed7-b50e1ded18b2/IMG_1155.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 1. Get over it, that’s the way the world is… - Make it stand out Map 4: DSRP as a lens to better understand others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/85d749c8-f873-49bb-a220-8138787f6cd4/IMG_1106.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 1. Get over it, that’s the way the world is… - Make it stand out Map 5: When this grounding example occurred in my class, I was a new DSRP practitioner. The map studies in this post are not something I could have done then with the same precision I am using today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/692a363a0531d568a657f246/e1c286b6-f4ed-4eaa-81ee-1d86cb952018/IMG_1156.jpg A Blog on Practicing DSRP - 1. Get over it, that’s the way the world is… - Make it stand out Map 6: Though not in this map, Jessica’s skill with DSRP’s Distinction pattern is also evident in this example. https://www.watershedpvps.org/references daily 0.75 2026-03-04