In complex, uncertain, and ambiguous situations, members of groups must still take creative action together. As a facilitator, your job is to help them deal with challenges they face in doing that:
- Overwhelming urgency and doubt
- Low trust in high stakes settings
- Long-term tension and division
Many facilitation tools were designed for a more predictable world. Today’s facilitators need new ways to navigate different ideas, perspectives, and questions to develop creative responses and help groups choose wise actions.
Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) offers skills and tools for generative facilitation at any level. Using HSD helps you, as a facilitator, support complex conversations. When groups are polarized and stuck in intractable challenges, HSD can help you support them in creative, productive action.
This online event is an Adaptive Action Lab. Focusing on your most difficult facilitations, you will learn to see patterns in group relationships and find possibility in those patterns. You will set conditions for groups to find their next wise actions—together. Bring your greatest challenges and leave with a plan of action. You will explore the changing face and function of facilitation in today’s complex landscapes. You will use the tools of HSD to find a powerful new way to facilitate seemingly intractable issues.
Faculty & Coaches
Judy embarked on her Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) journey ten years ago. As an experienced evaluation consultant, she identified the synergies HSD offered to her research and practice across a wide range of organisations and sectors. While conducting research and evaluation in her own right, Judy helps others develop evaluation systems and frameworks, specialising in the use of evaluation rubrics.
For Judy, HSD bridges the art and science of looking into the self-organising of systems. She finds HSD particularly useful in helping her clients navigate complexity in their organisational situations, helping reach deep insights.
As a tangible outcome of using HSD tools and techniques, she finds people are able to take wise action and make progress in unpredictable environments.
Judy is Director of Pragmatica Limited – and a member of the Kinnect Group. She is based in Wellington, New Zealand. To continue her learning and sharing about HSD, Judy became a member of Thrival in 2018.
