December 19, 2024
The HSD Community Commons is where so many people come together to apply HSD in myriad ways. Four times each year, this group comes together to share their interests and learning. Join us in these engaging and informative sessions to hear what others are doing and to share your stories as well.
Friends and Colleagues,
So much is happening in the Systems Dynamics (HSD) Ecosystem right now. Over the years, HSD has continued to reach out and grow through large and small iterative cycles of Adaptive Action. Since it launched in 2003, HSD Institute was a seed that has grown to reach out around the world. It has become a global ecosystem of learning and application that goes far beyond the reach of the Institute.
As ecosystems mature, they go through transformations, often in form and function. The time has come for a major shift in the HSD Ecology. The global community of HSD has grown too large and too diverse to be served or held by a single institution. We want to share with you the story of the HSD practitioners who came together to begin to set conditions for the next iteration of this Ecosystem.
December 5, 2024
The HSD Community gathered during this time to reflect on the past, to express gratitude for the present, and to launch a new pathway for the future of HSD and those who perpetually recreate its theory and practice.
Build Adaptive Capacity
In times of change, we all need strong foundations for decision making and action. HSD offers three concepts that can help you lay your next stepping stone.
November 7, 2024
Since its founding in 2003, the Human Systems Dynamics Institute has set conditions to nurture a field of theory and practice. Today, over 1,000 HSD Professional Associates and thousands of others engage in using and expanding the HSD Praxis. With the dawning of 2025, the HSD Community will transcend the bounds of the Institute and emerge into a global community of learning, teaching, dialogue, and practice of transformation. In this workshop, Glenda Eoyang explores infrastructure, principles, and practices that will sustain HSD into our ever-evolving future.
Manage Strategic Change
Some problems will never be solved. Social injustice, poverty, prejudice and greed have always been with us, and they will never go away. It may seem counterintuitive, but such a realization can bring hope. If a solution is impossible, we can be free to explore lots of promising possibilities. We can see, and begin to shift, the patterns within and between our intractable problems. We can discover many ways to shift those patterns toward new opportunities and positive pathways.
Teaching & Learning
Radical Rules for Schools provides a path for seeing, understanding, and influencing the dynamics that shape patterns of generative teaching and learning. Using the principles of human systems dynamics, this practical book helps build adaptive capacity for individuals and groups. The rules change behaviors, and the behaviors transform patterns as educators adapt to the challenges and changes they face today. The authors recommend a short list of simpleyet radicalrules to guide decision making and action to set conditions for generative teaching and learning for students, faculty, administrators, boards, and families.