Patterns and Possibilities - Curious Conversations with Miss Handie
By HSD Patterns and Possibilities - Curious Conversations with Miss Handie
The Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Patterns and Possibilities podcast focuses on individuals who use HSD to see, understand, and influence patterns that disrupt our daily lives. Every day they deal with complex issues that emerge in the messiness of today's world. Miss Handie interviews individuals who use HSD perspectives and models to help themselves and their clients respond more effectively to the complexity they face. Every two weeks, this podcast will provide insights and approaches to help you navigate the turbulence complexity in your life.
Patterns and Possibilities - Curious Conversations with Miss HandieMay 17, 2023
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Curious Conversations with Special Guest Mike Norbury - Season 2/Episode 6
In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Dr. Mike Norbury.
Dr. Norbury is Senior Medical Director for Vancouver Community - Vancouver Coastal Health.
Following completion of his Family Medicine training in Scotland in 2008, Dr. Norbury spent several years working as a GP Academic Fellow and a GP Health Inequality Fellow, during which time he also completed his Masters in Public Health Policy and Health Inequalities.
Concurrently, he worked in large urban primary care clinics serving socio-economically disadvantaged populations in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. He formally became involved in medical leadership in 2011 with his first medical director role.
Dr. Norbury relocated to Vancouver, BC, in 2015 and started work at Raven Song Community Health Centre, serving medically and socially complex primary care clients as a Family Physician.
In 2016, while continuing in clinical practice, Mike became the Medical Director for the Primary Care Program at VCH. In 2019 he became the Associate Senior Medical Director.
Thereafter, in May 2021 he became the interim Senior Medical Director and in July, 2021, Dr. Norbury became the Senior Medical Director, for Vancouver Community - the role in which he still currently works.
Mike also currently holds a Clinical Assistant Professorship in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Norbury is Senior Medical Director for Vancouver Community - Vancouver Coastal Health.
Following completion of his Family Medicine training in Scotland in 2008, Dr. Norbury spent several years working as a GP Academic Fellow and a GP Health Inequality Fellow, during which time he also completed his Masters in Public Health Policy and Health Inequalities.
Concurrently, he worked in large urban primary care clinics serving socio-economically disadvantaged populations in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. He formally became involved in medical leadership in 2011 with his first medical director role.
Dr. Norbury relocated to Vancouver, BC, in 2015 and started work at Raven Song Community Health Centre, serving medically and socially complex primary care clients as a Family Physician.
In 2016, while continuing in clinical practice, Mike became the Medical Director for the Primary Care Program at VCH. In 2019 he became the Associate Senior Medical Director.
Thereafter, in May 2021 he became the interim Senior Medical Director and in July, 2021, Dr. Norbury became the Senior Medical Director, for Vancouver Community - the role in which he still currently works.
Mike also currently holds a Clinical Assistant Professorship in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia.
May 17, 202315:36
Curious Conversations with Special Guest Monica Leon - Season 2/Episode 5
In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Monica Leon.
Monica Leon is an experienced global OD practitioner, strategist, facilitator, and executive coach, specializing in sticky issues, open systems theory, complex systems, and innovative work practices that intertwine vertical development and achieve sustainable results. Monica believes in tapping into the collective wisdom to co-create and being a natural strategic thinker. She focuses on mobilizing and expanding her clients’ abilities to make desired changes in their sticky issues.
Her experience incorporates working in large to small organizations both locally and internationally. It includes functional expertise in sales, marketing, finance, insurance, FMCGS, engineering, public transport, manufacturing, facilities management, rail, retail, contracting/asset management, logistics and public organization environments.
Monica holds a BS with honors in Economics and International Studies from Wilson College, an MBA with distinction from UFSIA, Belgium, and a Master of Science in Organisation Development (MSOD) from Pepperdine University, USA. She is working towards becoming a PCC ICF Coach and has been a certified Senior and Global Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & GPHR). She is the founder and choice architect of Nurturing Choicefulness, www.nurturingchoicefulness.co.nz and developer in partnership with Wendy Morris and the HSD Institute of www.hsdessentials.com.
May 03, 202316:12
Curious Conversations with Special Guest Nora Murphy Johnson - Season 2/Episode 4
In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Nora Murphy Johnson.
Nora Murphy Johnson, Ph.D., is the President of Inspire to Change. She holds a PhD in Evaluation Studies from the University of Minnesota. Nora believes that all systems of people and institutions are connected and that all parts of the system need to be strong and healthy. Nora encourages clients and stakeholders to think outside of our boxes and disciplines and create a coherent shared vision for something greater than what exists now. Evaluation can be an integral part of working towards this vision.
Nora works towards understanding (1) how principles-focused, developmental research and evaluation can be used for systems change and social justice, (2) ways to create a coherent and shared vision that allows for contextualized learning and adaptation, and (3) how to best engage people in useful research and evaluations that inform and inspire.
Nora is best known for her publications, “Nine guiding principles to help youth overcome homelessness: A principles-focused developmental evaluation” (Developmental Evaluation Exemplars, 2015), and “Connecting Individual and Societal Change” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020), and Creative Evaluation and Engagement: Volume 1 (2022).
Nora Murphy Johnson, Ph.D., is the President of Inspire to Change. She holds a PhD in Evaluation Studies from the University of Minnesota. Nora believes that all systems of people and institutions are connected and that all parts of the system need to be strong and healthy. Nora encourages clients and stakeholders to think outside of our boxes and disciplines and create a coherent shared vision for something greater than what exists now. Evaluation can be an integral part of working towards this vision.
Nora works towards understanding (1) how principles-focused, developmental research and evaluation can be used for systems change and social justice, (2) ways to create a coherent and shared vision that allows for contextualized learning and adaptation, and (3) how to best engage people in useful research and evaluations that inform and inspire.
Nora is best known for her publications, “Nine guiding principles to help youth overcome homelessness: A principles-focused developmental evaluation” (Developmental Evaluation Exemplars, 2015), and “Connecting Individual and Societal Change” (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020), and Creative Evaluation and Engagement: Volume 1 (2022).
Apr 19, 202314:07
Curious Conversations with Special Guest Antonia Wilcoxon - Season 2/Episode 3
In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Antonia Wilcoxon.
Antonia Maria Apolinário-Wilcoxon, Ed.D., Equity Strategies, LLC, founder, president, and principal consultant provides direction and leadership in efforts of private, public, and collaborative efforts working to improve the lives of disenfranchised and vulnerable persons impacted by inequities.
Dr. Apolinário-Wilcoxon obtained her doctorate degree in educational leadership focusing on critical studies informed by Critical Pedagogy theorists. An African-Brazilian, she brings experiences in education, corporate, privatenonprofits, and government to lead efforts that bring agency, voice, and liberation in spaces where the presence of Oppression, bias and other barriers, silence those most valuable voices to find solutions to problems in their world.
Dr. Apolinário-Wilcoxon’s approach is one of listening deeply, exercising inquiry to enable wisdom and insights to emerge. Her facilitation is participatory, inclusive, resourceful, caring, and thoughtful.
She is a volunteer member of several advisory boards, including board of directors:
President-Elect, Minnesota Public Health Association (2023)
Member, Senior Community Services Board of Directors
Chair (2022), People’s Center Clinics and Services Board of Directors
Chair, Center for Resilient Families, University of Minnesota/Arizona, Federal Grant
Member, African American Registry Board of Directors
Member, Public Health Administration and Policy Community/Alumni Advisory Board, U of MN
Member, Program in Health Disparities Research Advisory Board, U of MN/Medical School
Member, National Association of Black Social Workers
Member, ICHRP (Integrated Care for High-Risk Pregnancy/Healthy Black Pregnancy Board)
Antonia Maria Apolinário-Wilcoxon, Ed.D., Equity Strategies, LLC, founder, president, and principal consultant provides direction and leadership in efforts of private, public, and collaborative efforts working to improve the lives of disenfranchised and vulnerable persons impacted by inequities.
Dr. Apolinário-Wilcoxon obtained her doctorate degree in educational leadership focusing on critical studies informed by Critical Pedagogy theorists. An African-Brazilian, she brings experiences in education, corporate, privatenonprofits, and government to lead efforts that bring agency, voice, and liberation in spaces where the presence of Oppression, bias and other barriers, silence those most valuable voices to find solutions to problems in their world.
Dr. Apolinário-Wilcoxon’s approach is one of listening deeply, exercising inquiry to enable wisdom and insights to emerge. Her facilitation is participatory, inclusive, resourceful, caring, and thoughtful.
She is a volunteer member of several advisory boards, including board of directors:
President-Elect, Minnesota Public Health Association (2023)
Member, Senior Community Services Board of Directors
Chair (2022), People’s Center Clinics and Services Board of Directors
Chair, Center for Resilient Families, University of Minnesota/Arizona, Federal Grant
Member, African American Registry Board of Directors
Member, Public Health Administration and Policy Community/Alumni Advisory Board, U of MN
Member, Program in Health Disparities Research Advisory Board, U of MN/Medical School
Member, National Association of Black Social Workers
Member, ICHRP (Integrated Care for High-Risk Pregnancy/Healthy Black Pregnancy Board)
Apr 05, 202314:31
Curious Conversations with Special Guest Royce Holladay - Season 2/Episode 2
In this episode, we’re continuing our pattern of inquiry with active members of the HSD community. Our special guest is Royce Holladay, Director of Services for Human Systems Dynamics Institute.
Royce Holladay, M.Ed. is a self-proclaimed "hunter/gatherer/sharer" of ideas, insights, and possibility as she steps into life's complexity. Looking at the world through multiple lenses, she hunts for patterns and unexpected perspectives in times of uncertainty and turbulence. Gathering them to explore and catalogue, she shares them as new connections and ideas she finds true and useful. Royce enjoys seeing a slow, growing recognition, as well as great bursts of ideas that are slightly new, creating a greater understanding of reality.
Royce Holladay is a leader among Associates from around the world who use human systems dynamics (HSD). She serves as a teacher, consultant, and coach with individuals, groups, and organizations as they engage in complex change. Well-grounded in theoretical foundations of HSD, she brings a practitioner's voice to applying the theory, models, and methods to everyday opportunities and challenges. Ms. Holladay's long experience as an educator and district administrator in the USA has gifted her with a deep understanding of the dynamics of human systems. This has been a springboard for the development of a number of models, methods, and approaches used by practitioners across a wide variety of sectors and agencies.
Along with a number of blog posts about using HSD in day-to-day life, Ms. Holladay has co-authored nine books and guides. Her writings are designed to support others in using HSD as a foundation to see, understand, and influence patterns in the organizational and personal lives of individuals, teams, and communities. One of those co-authoring partnerships produced two books: Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action for Complex Change and Deep Learning Ecologies: An Invitation to Complex Teaching and Learning. She also partnered with Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D., to co-author Adaptive Action, Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization.
Additionally, she has published a book of Haiku, based on complex images in nature; a book of poetry offering her observations of women she has encountered in her life; and a four-part series of Haiku that trace nature’s patterns across the landscape of a full year. All her books are available online through Amazon and other online booksellers.
Using a unique training format called Adaptive Action Labs (AA Labs), she establishes a deep learning ecology. In these sessions, participants focus first on their own intractable challenges, relative to the topic at hand. They describe and explore the nature of those challenges, from their current perspective. Then throughout the learning experience, Ms. Holladay sets conditions for the Participants to use new learning to build understanding of the dynamics of the intractable challenges they face. They come to see new options for forward action in those areas. Each participant leaves the session with three value-added outcomes:
• New insights about the dynamics of human systems
• Viable action plan to address the next challenge in an intractable issue
• Skills and understandings they can generalize to complex challenges in all areas of their life at home, at work, and in their community
To find out more about Adaptive Action Labs, visit the HSD website to see the AA Labs that are offered this year!
Mar 15, 202316:06
Curious Conversations with Special Guest Glenda Eoyang - Season 2/Episode 1
This episode launches a new pattern of inquiry with members of the HSD community. Our first special guest is Glenda Eoyang, Founder and Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.
Glenda Eoyang helps public and private organizations thrive in the face of overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded the field of human systems dynamics (HSD) in 2001.
As founding executive director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute she leads a global network of scholar-practitioners who use her models and methods to see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos toward coherence. Her recent clients include the Finnish Research Institute (VTT), US Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, British Columbia Ministry of Health, Oxfam International, The International Baccalaureate Organization, The Sustainability Consortium, the Association for Medical Education in Europe, UK National Health Service, and Roffey Park Institute.
Glenda received her doctorate in Human Systems Dynamics from the Union Institute and University in 2001, studying under Drs. Donald Klein and Kevin Dooley. There she discovered three fundamental factors that influence the dynamics of self-organizing change in human systems. This research forms the foundation for the body of work that helps individuals, institutions, and communities respond to complex change. With colleagues around the world, Glenda delivers a hybrid of education and consulting in the form of Adaptive Action Laboratories. Individuals and teams bring their most wicked problems, learn and practice human systems dynamics approaches, and leave with plans for next wise action. Groups from Vancouver to Sao Paulo and Boston to Delhi have used this method to break through apparently intractable issues.
Her published works include scholarly articles in a variety of fields and Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action for Complex Change (HSD Institute, March 2013), and Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools (Lagumo Press, 1996). Glenda’s latest book, with co-author Royce Holladay, is Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization(Stanford University Press, April 2013). It is a roadmap for anyone who chooses to work at the intersection of order and chaos. Glenda grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where there is more sky than ground and the wind “has been blowing for a very long time.” She lives now near the headwaters of the Mississippi River, on a little lake in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Thanks to Zoom, she engages with global partners in local action. For more information about Glenda and the HSD Institute, visit www.hsdinstitute.org. You can reach Glenda via email @Geoyang@hsdinstitute.org.
Glenda Eoyang helps public and private organizations thrive in the face of overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human systems, and she founded the field of human systems dynamics (HSD) in 2001.
As founding executive director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute she leads a global network of scholar-practitioners who use her models and methods to see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos toward coherence. Her recent clients include the Finnish Research Institute (VTT), US Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, British Columbia Ministry of Health, Oxfam International, The International Baccalaureate Organization, The Sustainability Consortium, the Association for Medical Education in Europe, UK National Health Service, and Roffey Park Institute.
Glenda received her doctorate in Human Systems Dynamics from the Union Institute and University in 2001, studying under Drs. Donald Klein and Kevin Dooley. There she discovered three fundamental factors that influence the dynamics of self-organizing change in human systems. This research forms the foundation for the body of work that helps individuals, institutions, and communities respond to complex change. With colleagues around the world, Glenda delivers a hybrid of education and consulting in the form of Adaptive Action Laboratories. Individuals and teams bring their most wicked problems, learn and practice human systems dynamics approaches, and leave with plans for next wise action. Groups from Vancouver to Sao Paulo and Boston to Delhi have used this method to break through apparently intractable issues.
Her published works include scholarly articles in a variety of fields and Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action for Complex Change (HSD Institute, March 2013), and Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools (Lagumo Press, 1996). Glenda’s latest book, with co-author Royce Holladay, is Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization(Stanford University Press, April 2013). It is a roadmap for anyone who chooses to work at the intersection of order and chaos. Glenda grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where there is more sky than ground and the wind “has been blowing for a very long time.” She lives now near the headwaters of the Mississippi River, on a little lake in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Thanks to Zoom, she engages with global partners in local action. For more information about Glenda and the HSD Institute, visit www.hsdinstitute.org. You can reach Glenda via email @Geoyang@hsdinstitute.org.
Mar 01, 202315:58
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 8
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Dec 21, 202204:29
Hope: On the Other Side of Certainty - Episode 16
HSD thought leader, Glenda Eoyang, has come to understand why and how uncertainty is now a source of hope, rather than despair, for her students and clients. The more she shares these insights with our curious HSD a community, she sees the energy rise and the momentum for change build. In this episode, we will share six of the patterns that Glenda has noticed. We wonder if they will help you, too, find hope in chaos. Let’s explore it together!
Dec 07, 202224:29
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume VII
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Nov 16, 202203:53
Our Time: Resilience Now and Into the Future - Episode 15
What do people mean when they talk about resilience? In this episode, HSD thought leader Royce Holladay offers both a definition and some practical applications for building resilience in the uncertainty of the current COVID-19 crisis. You’ll learn how to leverage your connections to create a more resilient world.
Nov 02, 202220:50
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 6
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Oct 19, 202204:36
Simple, Not Easy: Living the Future Today - Episode 14
In this time of COVID disruption, we are missing two things that are essential to decision making: 1) Complete information and 2) Reliable connections with a community to create a meaningful, shared reality.
In this episode, we’re breaking down how to make decisions and feel good that those decisions are both appropriate and effective. Using HSD “Simple Rules” can supply us with what we need. Press play and learn just how this simple process can help you to live, work, and play better.
In this episode, we’re breaking down how to make decisions and feel good that those decisions are both appropriate and effective. Using HSD “Simple Rules” can supply us with what we need. Press play and learn just how this simple process can help you to live, work, and play better.
Oct 05, 202219:25
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 5
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Sep 21, 202204:28
It Begins with Me & You and You & You - Episode 13
In this episode, we’re answering an important question: How can we use HSD to help us see, understand, and influence patterns of health and sustainability as we move through the current crisis and work together to shape whatever comes next?
Sep 07, 202216:59
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 4
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience. We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Aug 17, 202203:46
Problems into Patterns - Episode 12
To thrive in complexity you have to adapt—quickly and often! You can’t afford to wait for deep analysis or complete data. You don’t have time to take things apart, fix each piece, and put them back together. Even if you could, complex systems are massively entangled and emergent, so fixing parts may not fix the whole.
Sit back, relax, and listen as we share new possibilities for old problems.
Aug 03, 202221:34
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 3
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Jul 20, 202203:43
The Power of Questions - Episode 11
HSD Professionals have focused on personal and professional wicked issues from around the world. They have covered a wide range of issues. A physical therapist was not able to touch her most vulnerable clients during the COVID lockdown. A middle-aged professional wonders how to respond when his city turns becomes a police state overnight. We have found no solutions, but we have found creative options for actions for each of us. As we hear others’ issues and contribute our questions, we recognize our own wicked patterns and find our own pathways toward action.
We are also using this approach with institutions in education, health care, public health, and finance. In all cases, leaders discover hope and possibility in the Power of Questions.
You can learn how to unleash your power through powerful questions simply by pressing play on this episode.
We are also using this approach with institutions in education, health care, public health, and finance. In all cases, leaders discover hope and possibility in the Power of Questions.
You can learn how to unleash your power through powerful questions simply by pressing play on this episode.
Jul 06, 202218:41
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 2
Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle.
Jun 15, 202203:55
Transformation - Episode 10
The transformation that results from the HSD approach is true to the science and useful in many different challenges and contexts. In this episode, we will explore transformation from the HSD perspective: What is it? How can we set conditions for transformation that brings productivity, health, and well-being to human systems?
Jun 01, 202219:43
Affirmations of the Heart - Volume 1
We’re establishing a new pattern in HSD that we hope you’ll enjoy. We invite you to listen to 120 seconds of soothing affirmations, repeat them aloud and make this your new daily pattern.
May 18, 202202:11
The Concrete World of HSD - Episode 9
In today’s Age of Uncertainty, the winning strategy is to make a plan and hold it lightly. Keep asking questions outside the boundaries of your own silo. Support others in their plans, and hold them lightly, too. In school we learned that you should make a plan and stick to it, but that is a losing game when you are faced with unexpected events. In today’s uncertain environments, you have to be resilient and creative as you work with others to find your most Adaptive Action.
May 04, 202219:46
Strategic Frameworks: Plan at the Speed of Change - Episode 8
Traditional strategic plans are built around long lists of strategies with multiple objectives and tasks. Such a plan locks you into a single understanding of the environment and limited expectations for the future.
In this episode, you’ll learn how HSD models and methods can transform strategic planning into meaningful, useful, and Adaptive Planning.
In this episode, you’ll learn how HSD models and methods can transform strategic planning into meaningful, useful, and Adaptive Planning.
Apr 20, 202218:30
Lead in the Age of Uncertainty - Episode 7
There was a time when a leader needed (and had time for) a catalogue full of training programs. Each task had its own skills, and each skill had its own course. As the role of the leader became more complex, the number of tasks—and the number of courses—multiplied. At the same time, the leader’s calendar filled up, leaving little space for learning.
This pattern emerges often in the Age of Uncertainty: Increasing demand and decreasing resources. As these constraints increase, tension accumulates over time. At some point the situation becomes untenable. A new paradigm emerges to changes not just HOW MUCH can be done, but HOW to do it.
Press play to learn how HSD can help you to create and spread a new paradigm and create a place where leaders thrive, in spite of complexity and constraints.
This pattern emerges often in the Age of Uncertainty: Increasing demand and decreasing resources. As these constraints increase, tension accumulates over time. At some point the situation becomes untenable. A new paradigm emerges to changes not just HOW MUCH can be done, but HOW to do it.
Press play to learn how HSD can help you to create and spread a new paradigm and create a place where leaders thrive, in spite of complexity and constraints.
Apr 06, 202216:38
Your Stories: See the Simple in the Complex - Episode 6
We have our own stories to tell, and we have important stories we need to hear. But how can our stories compete with all the noise?
We need compelling narratives to capture the imagination and reveal deeper meaning, so ours stand out from the noise. We need to be prepared to understand the deeper meaning in the stories we hear.
How can we sift through the noise to find the compelling stories of our time? How can we create narratives to capture the attention and imagination of others?
Press play to learn easy ways to zoom in and zoom out to find the simplest and sexiest aspects of your complex stories.
We need compelling narratives to capture the imagination and reveal deeper meaning, so ours stand out from the noise. We need to be prepared to understand the deeper meaning in the stories we hear.
How can we sift through the noise to find the compelling stories of our time? How can we create narratives to capture the attention and imagination of others?
Press play to learn easy ways to zoom in and zoom out to find the simplest and sexiest aspects of your complex stories.
Mar 23, 202221:44
Generative Collaboration: Partnerships for 21st Century Challenges - Episode 5
In the 21st century, people are looking for ways to build coalitions and partnerships that make a difference in the world. Whether it’s corporate, non-profit, or governmental strategy, organizations and groups are realizing they can’t do it all. The challenges are too big. People, ideas, and needs are too diverse. We will discuss how we can form partnerships that make a difference in the differences we make in the world.
Mar 09, 202219:30
Generative Engagement: Leverage Dynamics of Interaction - Episode 4
This episode focuses on Generative Engagement, an HSD-based model/method that can help you explore your system to make decisions about how you can set conditions for more productive interactions. Listen and learn how to use Generative Engagement in a challenging human system where you live, work, or play.
Feb 23, 202219:28
Generative Engagement: Balance of Power - Episode 3
A critical capacity that ensures generative engagement is a deep understanding of power from an HSD perspective. In HSD, we talk about “power with” rather than “power over” to describe generative relationships. Do those who wield influence in the system listen to and consider perspectives of those who have less influence? Do those who traditionally have less influence in the system believe their voices can and will be heard? What happens when the formal—or informal—distribution of power does not honor or establish patterns that sustain the system?
Press play to find out why these questions are being asked and listen to a real life altering experience that outlines why they are part of the difference that makes a difference.
Feb 09, 202223:17
Facilitating Conversation - Episode 2
Facilitation has outgrown its traditional image. It’s no longer about an individual at the front of the room guiding a group of people through processes. It’s no longer just about decision making, conflict resolution, or team building. Many factors in today’s world have brought a new look to the role of facilitation. We will discuss how the role can be used today to enrich and expand conversations.
Jan 26, 202213:10
HSD Invites YOU to be a Curious Fool - Episode 1
In our first episode, Miss Handie explains what Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) is, why it matters, and how it can be used to transform wicked issues. She invites you to join her on the HSD journey with an open mind and a foolish sense of curiosity. Miss Handie believes that foolish curiosity opens the door to endless possibilities with HSD that everyone can experiment with, experience, and enjoy.
Jan 12, 202210:53