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Build Adaptive Capacity
As I watered my plants today, I marveled again at their regenerative power. All they need is dirt, water, and sun, and they get bigger and healthier over time. Some of them don’t even need dirt, but that is a different story. Even the orchid, who holds back for months, surprises with blossoms when I least expect it.
Teaching & LearningBuild Adaptive Capacity
The Learning Triangle, as a model, represents the interplay and interdependence of what you “know” and what you “do.” It describes the relationship between using theory to inform experience and action, and using what you learn from experience and action to inform theory. That relationship and how it plays itself out for a learner is the definition of praxis. As a method, the Learning Triangle provides insights that can inform your action as you create a more engaging and productive learning ecology for others to build their own praxis.
April 5, 2018
You drown in data. Electronic sources are never-ending. Customer and performance information comes through in real time. Research, news, shifting regulations, and personal stories keep your inbox full to overflowing. You can’t hope to sort through it all. How can you separate the noise from the news and find information to fuel your next wise action?
HSD helps you manage your attention to focus on the differences that make a difference to you and your world.
Collaborate to Create Community
What can we say to future generations about the patterns of generativity, equity, and inclusion we seek today? How would we speak with them about who we are together? How will we help them understand the power of the work we recognize as we stand in the world at the end of 2018?
Recently I received this powerful essay from one of our HSD Professional Associates. She wrote it to share with colleagues in an organization-wide equity and diversity event, and then was generous enough to share it with us. I asked permission and she has, again, graciously granted permission for me to share it here, in its entirety. With deep gratitude to her, I offer this for your reading.
–Royce Holladay
Build Adaptive Capacity
Glenda H. Eoyang is founding executive director of the Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Institute. Since 1986 she has pioneered applications of chaos and complexity to improve people's adaptive capacity.
PhilanthropyPlan in Uncertainty
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
Dan Millman