To make the greatest impact in an uncertain, complex future, groups must take creative action together. As a facilitator, your job is to help them deal with challenges they face in doing that:
- Overwhelming urgency and uncertainty
- Low trust in high stakes settings
- Long-term tension and division
Current facilitation tools were designed for a more predictable world. Today’s facilitators need new ways to shift difference into creative responses and wise action. Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) offers skills and tools to support collaboration 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. You will focus 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 use the tools of HSD find the power of 21st Century Facilitation.
Faculty & Coaches
Royce Holladay has been working to support people as they navigate change for over 30 years. With a Masters degree in counseling, she began learning about the dynamics of personal change and has been using those skills in multiple areas of her work and personal life since that time. She has worked with individuals of all ages, supporting them to find their own path through the challenges of their complex lives. Over the past decade, Royce has co-authored five books based on Human Systems Dynamics. Her most recent books are a series of brief guides designed to help people apply HSD principles to specific areas of work in human systems. Examples include coaching, instructional design, and facilitation.
Jennifer Jones-Patulli works with private and public organizations to facilitate constructive conflict and influence positive change. Jennifer helps organizations establish flexible conditions, within a solid framework, to confidently adapt to ongoing change.
As a skilled facilitator, mediator, and coach, Jennifer brings over a decade of practice in conflict resolution and application of conflict theory into her work with the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Using human systems dynamics Models and Methods, Jennifer designs and delivers tailored approaches to support groups through complex challenges. Her work helps groups and individuals let go of non-productive ways of behaving, and brings them to a place of creativity.
Jennifer’s approach is innovative and creative. She believes that complex challenges require an adaptive, interdisciplinary approach to achieve lasting results.
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