Human System Dynamics Institute Upcoming Events

HSDP Certification Portland - Session 2

L4T Phase 1: Seeing and Influencing Complexity

Fraser Health Authority HSDP - Session 2

HSDP Certification Portland - Session 3

Oregon ODN Meeting

Glenda Eoyang will be the featured speaker at the Oregon ODN's March meeting:

Change is changing. We’re experiencing a new, uncertain, and emergent world in our diverse practices and lives. Leaders, OD and HR practitioners, front-line service providers, and consultants of all kinds see their best-laid plans interrupted, disrupted, and disintegrated into chaotic messes. The problem is that traditional theory and our habits of practice do not—indeed they cannot—accommodate the new and unpredictable patterns of transformation that we observe.

The rules and competencies of the past were designed to help us play and win a finite game. Today we are playing an infinite game where the rules change constantly, the field is the whole and unbounded system, opponents are partners, learning is a survival skill, and the purpose is not to win, but to ensure that the play continues. The change culture of the future develops adaptive capacity for individuals, leadership teams, and organizations. Adaptive capacity is the ability to see simple patterns in a mess, explore creative options, take courageous action, and look for simple patterns again.

In the field of human systems dynamics, we call this process Adaptive Action. In our time together, you’ll experience the power of self-organizing systems and see the conditions that create, and allow you to influence, chaotic messes for individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. You will engage with others in experiential exercises, small and large group discussion, and shared reflection. You will use what you learn to create an Adaptive Action plan to approach the messiest of your messy issues.

5th International Nonlinear Science Conference

The principal aim of the INSC is to provide a scholarly environment conducive to promoting exchanges between an array of disciplines to facilitate research and related academic activities in collaboration with colleagues worldwide.

The topics covered by the conference include applications of nonlinear dynamical systems theory and techniques to problems encountered in any area of the behavioral, social and life sciences including psychology, sociology, economics, management sciences, anthropology, aesthetics, education, biology, physiology, ecology, neuroscience and medicine. One or more of the following nonlinear concepts must be an explicit part of the presentation: attractors, bifurcations, chaos, fractals, solitons, catastrophes, self-organizing processes, cellular automata, agent-based models, network analysis, genetic algorithms and related evolutionary processes, econophysics, dynamical diseases, or closely related constructs.

The broad mixture of the disciplines represented here indicates that many bodies of knowledge share common principles. Contributions from other disciplines such as computer science, mathematics and engineering are also welcome provided the main focus of the paper is an application of nonlinear science in the behavioral, social or biological sciences.

Submit abstracts for papers, posters, and symposia through the INSC2012 website: http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/insc/2012/
Deadline December 21, 2011. “Early Bird” submissions will begin to receive responses after Nov. 15.

About the Conference

The International Nonlinear Science Conference (INSC), which is sponsored by SCTPLS in conjunction with a featured university, is the ideal venue for presenting original work applying nonlinear dynamics and related concepts to psychology and the life sciences. For 21 years, the Society and its conferences have been founded in the principles of interdisciplinary work, acknowledging the ubiquity of nonlinear dynamics across the behavioral, social, and life sciences. The conference is typically intimate in size with around 60-70 attendees representing psychology, biology, economics, business, physics, mathematics, and other scholars organized around a common interest in nonlinear dynamics. Attendance is typically broad geographically as well, with membership in SCTPLS representing each of the global continents. The program includes prominent keynote speakers, cutting-edge pre-conference workshops, symposia, individual sessions, and posters presentations.

This year will bring the 5th INSC to beautiful Barcelona, Spain. The dates for the conference are set for March 15-17, 2012. Our sponsoring institution will be the historic University of Barcelona – a fine destination for culture, tourism, and scientific progress. Go here for more information.

Plexus Change 2012 Conference

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Quarterly Associates and Friends Meeting

11:00-1:00 CDT

This meeting will serve as HSD Institute's annual meeting for 2012.

20th International Winter Chaos Conference

Systems Thinking in Science, Education, the Humanities, and Society

This conference has established a tradition of informality in both style and substance that features open discussion and mutually respectful interactions among participants. It is open to metaphoric as well as formal explorations of systems/integrative thinking into science (including psychological, social, biological, mathematical, and logical disciplines), education, the humanities, society, and philosophy.

Further information can be found at:
http://www.blueberry-brain.org/winterchaos/20th%20Snowflake.pdf

L4T Phase 2: Shifting Patterns

Network Board Meeting

T-Group Announcement: Individual Effectiveness in Group Dynamics

Please join us for a life-changing group based on complexity science, Polarities, Percept Language and Rules for group effectiveness:

Individual Effectiveness in Dynamic Groups
Date: Friday, April 20th beginning at noon through Sunday, April 22th 2012 finishing at noon
Location: Scottsdale, AZ - in beautiful surroundings with amazing views and a relaxing atmosphere.
Cost: $850 - travel and hotel are the responsibility of the participant

Been a member of an ineffective group & didn't know what to do to change the dynamics?

Wondered why the start up of some groups is so difficult?

Felt tripped up by group dynamics and wondered what was going on?

Felt challenged as a group leader and wish you could be more effective?

The T-(for training) Group is a kind of learning laboratory where each person can increase his or her understanding of the forces which influence individual behavior and thus group performance in organizations. The data for learning is your own behavior, feelings and reactions. As the original basis for Organization Development, this experience is the basis of our work as leaders, consultants, or activists aware of and utilizing the human system.
LEARNING OUTCOMES

Understand how one's behavior, attitudes and expectations affect others;
Practice new methods of influencing and motivating others;
Experience how different communication styles product different results;
Learn to manage individual and group conflict;
Gain an increased awareness & sensitivity to emotional reactions & expressions in self & others;
Become a better facilitator of group dynamics.

Register Today! This lab is limited to 15 participants, so register early by contacting Kathy Anderson at ka_ftc@mac.com or 952.431.4638.

YOUR FACILITATORS:

Kristine Quade is a consultant combining her background as an attorney with a Doctoarate in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University with her 20 years of practical experience. Recognized as the 1996 Minnesota Organization Development practitioner of the year, Kristine teaches in seven international OD programs & her books & articles can be found on www.DynamicalLeadership.com. Kristine is has facilitated over 23 T-Groups. She can be reached at KristineQuade@DynamicalLeadership.com

Kathy Anderson has 20+ years of experience in private and public industry and holds an MBA and MA in Organization Development from St. Thomas University. Kathy is a Polarity Management Associate, and is a certified coach having completed programs with the Coaches Training Institute and through the Transformational Leadership Coaching Institute. Kathy has been participating in T-Groups for 15 years. Contact Kathy Anderson at ka_ftc@mac.com.

Fraser Health Authority HSDP - Session 3

HSD Institute Board of Directors Meeting

L4T Phase 3: Sustaining Patterns

HSDP Twin Cities - Session 1

More Information: learn-more/certification-programs/2011-training.html

L4T Session 4: Follow Up

L4T Session 5: Close and Report

Quarterly Associates and Friends Meeting

11:00-1:00 CDT

Dare We...Inspiring Women Leaders

More Information: http://www.the3rdi.co.uk/inspiringleaders/registration.html

HSDP Twin Cities - Session 2

More Information: learn-more/certification-programs/2011-training.html

ALIA Summer Institute 2012

The ALIA Summer Institute is a five-day immersion in the skills and perspectives you need to deepen your leadership and accelerate your work. Here you can steep in new ideas, take risks, and work your project while in the company of thought leaders, artists, meditation teachers, and inspired change-makers from around the world.

Learn more here

Network Board Meeting

HSD Institute Board of Directors Meeting

HSDP Twin Cities - Session 3

More Information: learn-more/certification-programs/2011-training.html

Quaterly Associates and Friends Meeting

11:00-1:00 CDT

Peace and Conflict: an International Interdisciplinary Conference

Tuesday 18th - Wednesday 19th September 2012 (core)
Thursday 20th 2012 (focus on peace and conflict science)
University of Coventry, UK

More info to come…

2012 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems

Glenda Eoyang will be a speaker at this year's symposium. Go here to see the program as it's planned.

Network Board Meeting

American Evaluators Assoc - Evaluation 2012 Conference

Please consider submitting a proposal to present at AEA's premiere meeting for Evaluators, Evaluation 2012, to be held Wednesday, October 24, through Saturday, October 27, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

We are calling on all who work or study in the field of evaluation to propose to share your best work in evaluation theory or practice at the annual conference of the American Evaluation Association.

We anticipate over 2500 colleagues to gather for a week of learning, collaboration, and connection in the "City by Nature," Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The conference is broken down into over 40 Topical Strands that examine the field from the vantage point of a particular methodology, context, or issue as well as the Presidential Strand highlighting this year's Presidential Theme of Evaluation in Complex Ecologies: Relationships, Responsibilities, Relevance. Presentations may explore the Presidential Strand Theme or any aspect of the full breadth and depth of evaluation theory, practice, management, or consulting.

Go here for more information.

HSD Institute Board of Directors Meeting

Fourth Annual Virtual Open House

Please join us for HSD Institute's the 4th Annual Virtual Open House on Thursday, December 6, 2011, 11:00 - 1:00 CST.

Each year, Associates and friends of HSD Institute come together for a virtual open house to hear from Glenda Eoyang, Executive Director of HSD Institute, about what's happening in the field of human systems dynamics and at the Institute. We also have an opportunity to hear from Associates who are using HSD in their work in new and interesting ways, and all are invited to join in the conversation about HSD in our own lives.

We hope you can join us for this meeting. Please check back here for more information as this session is planned. Feel free to share the invitation with your colleagues and friends.

This event is FREE, registration is required.