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Build Adaptive Capacity
The past year has brought race and racism to the fore in national and global dialogue. Murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others were shocking, but they were no surprise. Health inequities were not created by the pandemic, but they were exacerbated and laid bare. The essential nature of “essential workers,” cascading homelessness, New York Times’ 1619 Project, demonstrations and outrageous police responses, and misery at our southern border have disrupted my comfortable vision of the American community.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Mary Nations, shares a church service she recently helped to design and deliver as they explored the impact of difference and bias. It’s a powerful study of courage in the face of fear and how narratives—spoken, sung, and read—can share the lessons we must learn from the history that’s described in her homily.
Teaching & Learning
invest many hours and hopes in online communication. My guess is that you do, too. Virtual connections open any-time and any-where networks for thinking and action. They create opportunities for creative engagement with people around the world.
Manage Strategic Change
We learn a great deal from the gifted professionals who come to us as learners. We learn the most when our programs include Adaptive Action Labs. In these facilitated sessions, people bring their most wicked issues, learn and apply HSD models and methods, and leave with practical and compelling action plans.
Those of us who make our livings as teachers don’t like to admit it, but that is how most complex skills are developed—in real-world practice.
Lead in Complexity
I spent part of last week at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC. I enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones. It was particularly interesting to dive—however briefly—into the deep waters of the academy. There was much to learn.
Collaborate to Create Community
In today’s blog post, Glenda Eoyang shares an experience of personal transformation about seeing the unique miracle that is each person she meets and connecting with that person in humility and sensitive inquiry. She continues to live into that transformation learning more about her own ways of connecting. Now, she invites you to learn from two of the people who helped to set conditions for these new emerging patterns.