Simple solutions for complex problems.
Join the conversation about our work in Human Systems Dynamics,using principles of complexity theory in our research and practice.
Members
Welcome to the HSD Institute
The HSD Institute is committed to helping individuals, groups, families, communities, organizations and agencies increase their capacities to thrive in the quickly changing, highly diverse environment of the 21st century. We use principles and metaphors from complexity to describe, understand, and work with the dynamics created as people live, play, and work together.
We have other public sites for learning more about the HSD Institute and its work. Visit our website or our blog to read more about us.
We have created this site to provide a place for discussions, questions, and ongoing online conversations about human systems dynamics. In addition to the Forum for public discussions, please look for announcements about upcoming events, links to our website and blog, pictures of our Associates and friends who have participated with us in our work and play.
Do you have a question? Start a discussion in the Forum. We check the site daily and look forward to interesting and exciting conversation.
We have other public sites for learning more about the HSD Institute and its work. Visit our website or our blog to read more about us.
We have created this site to provide a place for discussions, questions, and ongoing online conversations about human systems dynamics. In addition to the Forum for public discussions, please look for announcements about upcoming events, links to our website and blog, pictures of our Associates and friends who have participated with us in our work and play.
Do you have a question? Start a discussion in the Forum. We check the site daily and look forward to interesting and exciting conversation.
Simple Solutions for Complex Problems
Learn from the past.
Take action in the present.
Create the future.
Human Systems Dynamics Institute works with organizations--large and small, non-profit and for-profit, public and private--to help them build adaptive capacity for dealing with today’s complex and quickly changing environment. The field of human systems dynamics offers unique benefits to you and your employees. Here are just two of our many applications and ways we can help. Check back periodically for more.
How do I plan strategically for a future that is unpredictable and unknowable?
Strategic Response Planning - Set long-range goals and shorter-term measures. Then use repeating cycles of planning that allow you to adapt to challenges as they show up in your system.
How can I support employees in their work, hold them accountable, and help them improve their skills to meet the changing needs of our organization?
Adaptive Performance Management - Articulate clear expectations that are coherent with the direction, values, and changing needs of the organization; provide ongoing, meaningful feedback, and design professional development communities of reflective practice around those skills and expectations that will move your organization forward.
Take action in the present.
Create the future.
Human Systems Dynamics Institute works with organizations--large and small, non-profit and for-profit, public and private--to help them build adaptive capacity for dealing with today’s complex and quickly changing environment. The field of human systems dynamics offers unique benefits to you and your employees. Here are just two of our many applications and ways we can help. Check back periodically for more.
How do I plan strategically for a future that is unpredictable and unknowable?
Strategic Response Planning - Set long-range goals and shorter-term measures. Then use repeating cycles of planning that allow you to adapt to challenges as they show up in your system.
How can I support employees in their work, hold them accountable, and help them improve their skills to meet the changing needs of our organization?
Adaptive Performance Management - Articulate clear expectations that are coherent with the direction, values, and changing needs of the organization; provide ongoing, meaningful feedback, and design professional development communities of reflective practice around those skills and expectations that will move your organization forward.
Learning Opportunities.
Thriving in Chaos!
Join the Forum discussion based on a powerful March 3, 2009 Webinar presentation about using human systems dynamics to thrive in uncertain times. Click on the Forum link in the menu at the top of the page and
Customizable Courses
HSD Institute offers or sponsors a number of courses and classes that are customizable to your needs. Courses are available on the following topics: Introduction to HSD, HSD Tools, Journey From Conflict to Peace, Dynamical Leadership, and Sustainability. If you are interested in organizing a group or inviting us in to your workplace, contact us.
Journey from Conflict to Peace: New Responses to Old Problems
Instructors: HSDP Associates Royce Holladay, Lois Yellowthunder, and Vic Ward
Distributor: HSD Institute
Medium: Classroom Training (2 days)
How can we address conflict in complex systems? Human systems dynamics will give you new ways to think about this question and new options for action to make a difference in your family, community, company, nation, and world.
Learn to:
* Name your intuitions about conflict and its resolution.
* Adapt your own actions to shift toward constructive conflict.
* See and influence patterns in human systems at all levels - pairs, teams, communities, and beyond.
* Use emotions of self and others to support productive action and interaction.
* Ask key questions that shift a situation from conflict toward curiosity.
* Set the conditions that encourage constructive self-organizing processes.
* Develop a network of colleagues who share your passion about peace and your understanding of the dynamics of creating peace.
* Create a sustainable action plan for one area of your work.
* Let us customize a time of discovery for your group to unbraid the complex dynamics of conflict in human systems, and help you develop your own capacity for adaptive action.
Contact Royce Holladay for more information.
Dynamical Leadership: Not Just Another Leadership Class
Instructors: Kristine Quade and Royce Holladay
Distributor: Human Systems Dynamics Institute
Medium: Classroom Training (2 days)
The field of Human Systems Dynamics is showing us a new path for leaders who are looking for effective ways to deal with the challenges of today's work life. In two days of engaging, interactive work, participants will experience new insights, gain new skills, and engage in activities that will increase their repertoire for facing these challenges. Learn to see the underlying dynamics at play in your organization and plan for facing those real-life challenges. Content will include:
* Use a complexity approach to leadership;
* Sort out complex issues to find the simple interventions;
* Learn new theory and application that shifts the way leaders can look at complex issues;
* Identify strategies to work with people, and systems for maximum alignment;
* Identify patterns using complexity science to see and work with trends differently;
* Develop a new understanding of self-organizing and why it is an important concept to understand for successful leaders.
* Let us customize an engaging and highly informative training to increase your potential as a leader in today’s organization.
For more information on this valuable workshop, contact Royce Holladay for more information.
Join the Forum discussion based on a powerful March 3, 2009 Webinar presentation about using human systems dynamics to thrive in uncertain times. Click on the Forum link in the menu at the top of the page and
Customizable Courses
HSD Institute offers or sponsors a number of courses and classes that are customizable to your needs. Courses are available on the following topics: Introduction to HSD, HSD Tools, Journey From Conflict to Peace, Dynamical Leadership, and Sustainability. If you are interested in organizing a group or inviting us in to your workplace, contact us.
Journey from Conflict to Peace: New Responses to Old Problems
Instructors: HSDP Associates Royce Holladay, Lois Yellowthunder, and Vic Ward
Distributor: HSD Institute
Medium: Classroom Training (2 days)
How can we address conflict in complex systems? Human systems dynamics will give you new ways to think about this question and new options for action to make a difference in your family, community, company, nation, and world.
Learn to:
* Name your intuitions about conflict and its resolution.
* Adapt your own actions to shift toward constructive conflict.
* See and influence patterns in human systems at all levels - pairs, teams, communities, and beyond.
* Use emotions of self and others to support productive action and interaction.
* Ask key questions that shift a situation from conflict toward curiosity.
* Set the conditions that encourage constructive self-organizing processes.
* Develop a network of colleagues who share your passion about peace and your understanding of the dynamics of creating peace.
* Create a sustainable action plan for one area of your work.
* Let us customize a time of discovery for your group to unbraid the complex dynamics of conflict in human systems, and help you develop your own capacity for adaptive action.
Contact Royce Holladay for more information.
Dynamical Leadership: Not Just Another Leadership Class
Instructors: Kristine Quade and Royce Holladay
Distributor: Human Systems Dynamics Institute
Medium: Classroom Training (2 days)
The field of Human Systems Dynamics is showing us a new path for leaders who are looking for effective ways to deal with the challenges of today's work life. In two days of engaging, interactive work, participants will experience new insights, gain new skills, and engage in activities that will increase their repertoire for facing these challenges. Learn to see the underlying dynamics at play in your organization and plan for facing those real-life challenges. Content will include:
* Use a complexity approach to leadership;
* Sort out complex issues to find the simple interventions;
* Learn new theory and application that shifts the way leaders can look at complex issues;
* Identify strategies to work with people, and systems for maximum alignment;
* Identify patterns using complexity science to see and work with trends differently;
* Develop a new understanding of self-organizing and why it is an important concept to understand for successful leaders.
* Let us customize an engaging and highly informative training to increase your potential as a leader in today’s organization.
For more information on this valuable workshop, contact Royce Holladay for more information.
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Forum
Human Systems Dynamics in Education 7 Replies
Started by Royce Holladay. Last reply by Leslie Patterson Apr 29.
Landscape Assessment Tool
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Events
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Latest Activity
- Tools for a Complex Landscape - Webinar Series on September 23, 2009 at 5pm to November 18, 2009 at 6pm
- Thriving in Uncertainty on October 27, 2009 to October 29, 2009
Hi, I'm in! I've been using CDE and other HSD principles in my teaching for some time now so I'm eager to hear what others are thinking about this!
Jane Canney (JWCANNEY@STTHOMAS.EDU)
Is this a good place to do an online discussion?
Okay, I will email the others and see if they are interested. Who is the woman you suggested who is in your cohort at St. Thomas? Who else do you think might be interested?
Yeah, Royce, I like the online idea to get things moving and then we could meet in-person later.
I think the idea of viewing schools and classrooms as CASs would be a start. Nothing showed up in a Google search.
Yes, I agree that this is a really intriguing question. I would like to re-convene the Education Community group either in person (as we had the few who were together earlier) or we could convene the group online and hold our discussions here. Any...
Bruce C Pappas said:Since taking Glenda's class, I have been fantasizing about what a public school would look like built on HSD principles. And in addition, what it would be like to be a "principal" in that school?
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