Live Virtual Workshops and HSD Community Commons

June 22, 2023

The Community Commons meetings are for HSD practitioners, wherever they are in their journey. The meetings will be an opportunity for HSD folks to:

• Report on what they’ve learned from putting HSD into practice
• Engage in experiential learning with other HSD associates through interacting and practicing with HSD tools
• Test out ideas, get feedback, and gather advice from HSD practitioners on HSD-informed projects
• Use the HSD hive-mind for some “so what-ing” through Power of Questions, brainstorming, open discussion, etc.

This will be a space for reconnecting with the HSD community, to make the ongoing bridge between theory and practice, to meet other practitioners for possible future collaborations, and to have fun!

August 3, 2023

Change is perpetual in a complex system, so your response must be perpetual, too. What worked yesterday will probably not meet the same needs in an emergent future. Because of the inevitability of change, you must develop resilience that serves you across time and challenge. We see resilience as finding what is fit for function now and in an emerging future, not returning to some earlier state of happy equilibrium. 

In this Live Virtual Workshop, you will learn some simple rules for finding adaptive responses to help you thrive in unpredictable and inevitable change.

September 7, 2023

Your options for action depend on what you see. What you see depends on what you look for. If you are looking for problems and barriers, you will surely find them. Then your only choice will be to solve the problems and break down the barriers. This is great as long as it works, but you will be totally stuck when you run into problems without solutions or impermeable barriers. In those moments, you need better ways to see and more options for action.

Pattern Logic multiplies your options for action because it helps you see hidden potential instead of problems and barriers.  This LVW will introduce and deepen the concepts and tools of Pattern Logic to help people everywhere see their way to better outcomes.

September 21, 2023

The Community Commons meetings are for HSD practitioners, wherever they are in their journey. The meetings will be an opportunity for HSD folks to:

• Report on what they’ve learned from putting HSD into practice
• Engage in experiential learning with other HSD associates through interacting and practicing with HSD tools
• Test out ideas, get feedback, and gather advice from HSD practitioners on HSD-informed projects
• Use the HSD hive-mind for some “so what-ing” through Power of Questions, brainstorming, open discussion, etc.

This will be a space for reconnecting with the HSD community, to make the ongoing bridge between theory and practice, to meet other practitioners for possible future collaborations, and to have fun!

October 5, 2023

In times of chaos and confusion, a good question will serve you much better than any answer. Answers shift and deceive, while questions keep you open to learning and adaptation.

In this workshop, we will explore two powerful practices that will help you and your teams stay in adaptive inquiry. This virtual workshop is for anyone who is ready to thrive in whatever future emerges.

November 2, 2023

We all know a simple, structured process for making decisions. We also know when and how that process fails. The simple step-by-step falls apart when change is fast, information is unreliable, and perspectives are multiple. In the 1990s decision scientists named the “garbage can” approach to explain the real world of decision making in action, but this random approach is not fast or robust enough to respond to challenges today or tomorrow. 

HSD acknowledges the complex and emergent dynamics of decision making and provides a tool to help make it explicit and reasonable. This session introduces the Decision Map and gives you a chance to practice using it on your own most wicked challenges, whether you are new to HSD or have been using HSD at home, at work, or at play.

December 7, 2023

Three conditions influence the path, speed, and outcome of self-organizing processes. When you see the three conditions, you can understand the current patterns as they emerge at any level of human experience. When you understand the patterns, you can take action to alter the conditions. When you alter the conditions, you shift the pattern as it emerges. 

This Live Virtual Workshop is a master class in using the CDE Model to see, understand, and influence the complex contexts in which you work and play.

December 21, 2023

The Community Commons meetings are for HSD practitioners, wherever they are in their journey. The meetings will be an opportunity for HSD folks to:

• Report on what they’ve learned from putting HSD into practice
• Engage in experiential learning with other HSD associates through interacting and practicing with HSD tools
• Test out ideas, get feedback, and gather advice from HSD practitioners on HSD-informed projects
• Use the HSD hive-mind for some “so what-ing” through Power of Questions, brainstorming, open discussion, etc.

This will be a space for reconnecting with the HSD community, to make the ongoing bridge between theory and practice, to meet other practitioners for possible future collaborations, and to have fun!