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Build Adaptive Capacity
Facilitation has outgrown its traditional image. It’s no longer about an individual at the front of the room guiding a group of people through processes. It’s no longer just about decision making, conflict resolution, or team building. Many factors in today’s world have brought a new look to the role of facilitation.
Build Adaptive Capacity
The past year has brought race and racism to the fore in national and global dialogue. Murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others were shocking, but they were no surprise. Health inequities were not created by the pandemic, but they were exacerbated and laid bare. The essential nature of “essential workers,” cascading homelessness, New York Times’ 1619 Project, demonstrations and outrageous police responses, and misery at our southern border have disrupted my comfortable vision of the American community.
Feeling stuck? Do your issues feel sticky? Are you having deja vu moments when you see them repeat although they are never quite similar? Is uncertainty making it a challenge to find action? Going through a transformation in your family, your team, or organization because of ever-changing conditions and turbulent times?
Then, we would like to invite you to our community to help address these wicked problems. A place where we build the capacity to see, understand, and influence the present moment and the moments to come.
Join us in a dialogue of inquiry participated by people all over Asia to use Human Systems Dynamics to shift patterns that make us stuck.
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Collaborate to Create Community
In preparing for a future we can neither predict nor control, we are striving to create a generative, resilient community of individuals, groups, communities, and organizations. In HSD-informed terms, a generative, resilient community can be characterized by a set of three over-arching patterns of engagement and action that “transform turbulence and uncertainty into possibility for all.”
In the past months, we have experienced how Coronavirus infects our bodies, realizing that it also infects our homes, communities, and organizations. Other issues, both shared and personal, affect us in all areas of our lives. These challenges emerge from the complex, uncertain, and turbulent times we face at home and around the globe. In most times of chaotic transformation, each moment holds tremendous danger and opportunity. We must address the wicked issues that influence how we see, understand, and influence the present and our emerging future. We must choose and act in this moment of complexity.
Members of the HSD Community gather every weekday for 20-minute sessions to inquire into wicked issues emerging from these times.
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Teaching & Learning
Radical Rules for Schools provides a path for seeing, understanding, and influencing the dynamics that shape patterns of generative teaching and learning. Using the principles of human systems dynamics, this practical book helps build adaptive capacity for individuals and groups. The rules change behaviors, and the behaviors transform patterns as educators adapt to the challenges and changes they face today. The authors recommend a short list of simpleyet radicalrules to guide decision making and action to set conditions for generative teaching and learning for students, faculty, administrators, boards, and families.
April 1, 2021
We live and work in a highly diverse world. Age, experience, expectations, roles, relationships, backgrounds, accountabilities, responsibilities—These differences often stand out in the milieu of the many, many differences that are woven into the fabric of our days in our communities and in our work.
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