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March 19, 2015
Glenda Eoyang talks about using HSD to create the future today. Ian Creery talks about using Simple Rules to navigate a changing landscape. Mary Nations and Stewart Mennin discuss using HSD in a series of Leadership Training webinars. Leslie talks about patterns of instruction in public school classrooms. (This event was recorded as a Quarterly Associates Meeting.)
Business & IndustryBuild Adaptive Capacity
March 5, 2015
Glenda Eoyang explores What? is the difference between innovation and replication? So what? choices do you have in complex systems? Now what? will help you make choices and take action that is fit for function?
Build Adaptive Capacity
In a complex human system, you can’t be certain of “top-down” control; you may not be able to predict of the future. Your every interaction shapes emergent patterns of behavior and decision making. The world you know is open to known and unknown forces that influence from inside and outside your system’s immediate boundaries.
I’ve been thinking about friendship a lot lately. We lost Brenda Zimmerman from the community of complexity scholars. An old friend from college died in a terrible accident in December. My best and oldest friend called last night to tempt me with a spring holiday in Bruges.
Collaborate to Create Community
February, 5, 2015
What fundamental assumptions sustain conflict? What alternatives can HSD offer for seeing conflict in new ways? How can it help us imagine opportunities for peace? What would it mean to take effective Adaptive Action to shift patterns toward health and wellbeing for people, families, and communities? Join this inquiry and move toward your own Adaptive Action for peace and justice.
In HSD we use three characteristics to describe and understand complex adaptive systems: They are open to influence from internal and external forces that may be known or not, predictable or not, and controllable or not. They are highly diverse. They are nonlinear, and what you know from the past and experience today can influence the patterns of your future or not.
A linguistic landscape can be found on any school campus – it is essentially the way in which language – both written and verbal – is used to covey the beliefs and foundations of an organization. As a fall semester student teacher at Lawson Middle School in Cupertino, Ca, I had the privilege of experiencing and discovering exactly what Lawson values: the whole child.
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