Certification Courses
Certification Courses
HSD Professional Certification
Human Systems Dynamics Institute invites you to become a certified HSD Professional. Join a global network of committed and curious individuals who use HSD to understand their world in new ways. HSD Professionals realize a…
HSDP Certification - Virtual Course
May 16 - August 14, 2024 | Online
Are you interested in becoming a certified HSD Professional, but you cannot commit to the face-to-face portion of the program? If so, this program is for you.
Adaptive Action Labs
Simple Rules Gatherings: A Series of Conversations about the HSD Community
Next Session Apr 25 | 11a Central Time | Free Online Event
HSD is readying itself to move into its future, and we are experimenting with ways to connect deeply within the community and keep learning together. As part of this adaptive action approach, we are inviting all practitioners…
The Dragons of Transformation: Taming the Mindsets that thwart our embrace of a VUCA world
Begins May 6 | 3p - 5:30p EDT
When people tell you to think outside the box, they don't tell you where the box ends and the future begins. That is why we find ourselves so often trapped in our own blind spots and assumptions, constrained by our ordinary…
Wicked Issues: Adaptive Action for Compassionate Communities
Begins May 21 | 9a - 11a PDT | Online
Compassion is difficult and exhausting work at the best of times. In these times of turbulence and uncertainty, the challenges are magnified. We know it is hard enough for one person to take effective action in our complex…
Upcoming Labs
An Adaptive Action Lab offers the best of consulting and training into a single event. As a participant, you define and work on your most intractable challenge. Then you learn about human systems dynamics (HSD) as you apply your new learning to frame your challenge in a way that points to your best next wise action.
Adaptive Action Labs
Live Virtual Workshops
Live Virtual Workshops
HSD Simple Rule 2: Zoom in and zoom out
May 2, 2024 A self-organizing system is Complex Adaptive Systems all the way down! Every level of engagement—from cells to black holes—consists of agents that interact and generate system-wide patterns. All of these levels are…
HSD Simple Rule 3: Find the energy in difference
June 6, 2024 We know the differences that determine potential energy in batteries, rolling balls, waterfalls, and bouncing springs. We also know how to transform that energy into work to accomplish the practical work of living…
HSD Community Commons
June 20, 2024 The HSD Community Commons is where so many people come together to apply HSD in myriad ways. Four times each year, this group comes together to share their interests and learning. Join us in these engaging and…
Upcoming Live Virtual Workshops and HSD Community Commons
Glenda Eoyang, founder of the field of HSD, hosts free, online Virtual Workshops (webinars) every month. Covering topics from health care to education reform to world peace, she draws on current events, global opportunities and concerns, and local actions.