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Build Adaptive Capacity
2013 was a productive and satisfying year for the staff and Network of the HSD Institute. We hope the same is true for you, and we thank you for your Adaptive Actions that continue to drive energy and insight into the complex dynamics of learning, work, and play.
August 3, 2023
Change is perpetual in a complex system, so your response must be perpetual, too. What worked yesterday will probably not meet the same needs in an emergent future. Because of the inevitability of change, you must develop resilience that serves you across time and challenge. We see resilience as finding what is fit for function now and in an emerging future, not returning to some earlier state of happy equilibrium.
In this Live Virtual Workshop, you will learn some simple rules for finding adaptive responses to help you thrive in unpredictable and inevitable change.
March 4, 2021
In today’s world, you can’t always know what’s next. In fact, sometimes, given the complexity of our world, you can’t even know much about what’s now! At any given moment, about all you can see is this moment. All you can explore is what you know. How do you learn to question what you can’t see and find out more about what you don’t know? How can you use the HSD’s practices of inquiry?
Ask questions that help you see into the dynamics of the world around you
Engage others in individual and group inquiries using these perspectives
Experience the benefits of engaging in inquiry in today’s turbulent and uncertain landscape
Join us to explore this new way of stepping into questions that open a world of possibility to you. In human systems dynamics, we learn to stand in inquiry to see patterns clearly, seek to understand, and act with courage in the face of uncertainty and turbulence.
Royce explores a choice we can each make to reach across today’s open conflict and discourse that is devolving into shouting matches or silent withdrawal. She says there is an alternate path.
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.
Business & IndustryPlan in Uncertainty
“The future is already here. It just isn’t equally distributed.”
William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003