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This representation of a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) offers you a way to think about how patterns emerge from the complex interdependencies around you. Use it to inform understanding and action as you work to influence dominant patterns in your system.
We all deal with conflict, whether we like it or not. There are many ways to work through a difficult conversation, or find a settlement in negotiation. Some outcomes are more sustainable and satisfactory than others. The difference is in how you approach each conversation, and how you present yourself and the situation to others involved.
Last week the Human Systems Dynamics Institute hosted “Twenty-first Century Facilitation: Find Wisdom in Chaos.” As with all Adaptive Action Labs, we will meet to hold a more formal review. Today, however, I am sharing my more immediate reflections about this Lab. Using the Adaptive Action format makes this a simple, logical practice that keeps me focused on what’s important. I don’t get lost in the details or drama. Here’s how it works.
Two years ago, I received a call from a friend. She wanted to let me know about an upcoming course she thought I might be interested in. She knew I was at a place in my conflict resolution practice where I felt stuck. I was observing things in conflict that defied methods, that couldn’t be explained by the models I was using.
October 5, 2023
In times of chaos and confusion, a good question will serve you much better than any answer. Answers shift and deceive, while questions keep you open to learning and adaptation.
In this workshop, Glenda explores two powerful practices that will help you and your teams stay in adaptive inquiry. This virtual workshop is for anyone who is ready to thrive in whatever future emerges.
December 2, 2021
In this decade of massive and unpredictable change, your days are shaped by uncertainty and turbulence. Plans for the day are obsolete by mid-morning, and the week’s calendar is completely reworked by noon on Monday. Beyond the week? Trying to plan that far in advance, feels like it gives you only two choices: 1) Stick with the plan, no matter what; or 2) Give up on planning altogether.
How do you plan when you can’t know what’s coming tomorrow? How do you prepare for a future you just cannot see, but you want and need the anchor or touch point that having a plan offers?
Make sense of trends and patterns that shape your life
Rely on local context, resources, and information
Build Adaptive Capacity into the structure of your plan
Watch this webinar to find ways to create and live a plan that anchors day-to-day decisions, adapts to constant change and interruption, and moves toward the vision you hold for the future.
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.