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HSD essentials was made for this moment, so you can still succeed even if everything is shifting.
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In HSD essentials you learn how to move forward without needing to know it all.
Experience authentic confidence that makes it easier to generate new ideas and move them into action.
Grow your capacity to deal with increasing amounts of complexity in everyday life.
Cultivate flexible and adaptive responses, even in challenging circumstances.
HSD essentials is an introductory program to Human Systems Dynamics, a new way of perceiving, thinking and acting. HSD allows leaders and changemakers to deal with exponential change when your current methods, tools, and concepts can’t keep up.
HSD ESSENTIALS iS
Needing to decide and act in unknown and unknowable conditions.
Finding it impossible to produce predictable results when everything keeps changing.
Wondering whether a proven track record of experience has any value anymore.
Looking to respond to the unexpected with authentic confidence rather than self-doubt.
OUR METHOD
There are two interrelated sessions each week that include a brief introduction to HSD concepts, models, and methods followed by real-time activities to apply these new perspectives to your challenges and opportunities.
Join us to sample a learning experience for a new way of perceiving, thinking, and acting.
We meet twice a week, and each session is 2 hours long.
Each session is led by two facilitators.
The six week intensive is followed by two 90-minute integration sessions – one month and two months following the intensive.
To ensure quality and active participation, seats are limited.
$2615 USD
Registration closes on January 9
If you want to find out once we are ready please fill in the form below and we will notify you.
DATES & TIME
Registration closes on September 11
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel 15 days before the event, you have the choice of a refund less 10% administration fee or applying the full amount to a future event. If you cancel after that date, you will receive a 50% refund.
Cancellations requested in the 14 day period prior to the first session will receive a 50% refund, with no cancellations after that period.
SPECIAL OFFER
Installment Pricing
DATES & TIME
Registration closes on January 9
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel 15 days before the event, you have the choice of a refund less 10% administration fee or applying the full amount to a future event. If you cancel after that date, you will receive a 50% refund.
Cancellations requested in the 14 day period prior to the first session will receive a 50% refund, with no cancellations after that period.
HSD Essentials is designed for impact.
We have begun to identify ripples of impact by soliciting feedback not just from participants themselves, but also from their colleagues and family members.
In the first round of survey responses, 100% of survey respondents reported observing changes in program participants, and described how these changes have influenced their own thinking and behavior.
For example, V. is a senior leader in an industry that was high on the list of those disrupted by technological innovation prior to the pandemic. This turbulent environment has made adaptive capacity a critical industry priority.
Below is how V.’s colleague characterized the impact.
V.’s thinking and behavior has changed after taking this course. Now, she’s asking more questions, seems more engaged in new ideas, and open to new ideas from others.
I have been excited to see a more open-ended approach from V. and (V.’s department) over the last several months.
This has changed my perspective…while I was at first worried about the approach and not sure it was aligned with the rest of the organization, I have come to appreciate the different approach of asking more open ended questions and taking time identifying the problem to be solved rather than quickly jumping to solutions and answers, and find myself trying to emulate that in some of my work as well.
Finally, I am slowing down and taking more time to ask questions and find deeper understanding.
If, after having attended all sessions of the 6-week intensive and completed your homework, you cannot say that these sessions gave you new perspectives and options for action, we will refund your money less administration fees.
THE DESIGNERS | FACILITATORS
Monica is an experienced OD practitioner, facilitator and coach who believes in tapping into the collective wisdom to co-create. A strategic thinker by nature, she specializes in sticky issues, complex systems, and innovative work practices that intertwine vertical development and achieving sustainable outcomes. These are a set of practices that expand the mindset capacity of individuals and organizations in having greater choice and outcome-focused flexibility.
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 Organization Development from Pepperdine University, USA. She is an ACC ICF Coach and has been a certified Senior and Global Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & GPHR) since 2008. She has worked, lived, and studied in four continents.
Wendy C. Morris is an internationally recognized facilitator of learning and leadership development, especially for leading in complexity. She has designed more than 500 leadership development and engagement programs, while teaching at premier leadership centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. As a strategic thinking partner, she asks generative questions that enable her clients to find clarity that leads to wise action. She views training and leadership development as vehicles for leaders to become more agile, adaptive, effective, and whole.
Wendy works with 3 global networks for change: the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, the Presencing Institute, and the Art of Hosting community. She has a Master’s Degree in Human Development and is affiliated with two research and training centers at the University of Minnesota. Her work has received 25 awards for excellence and is informed by 19,000 hours of mindfulness and embodiment practice.
IN REAL LIFE
Read the stories below and learn how HSD is being used to influence change in complex systems.
The stories here are shared with permission.
fundamentals
Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) is a field of theory and practice that builds Adaptive Capacity to help individuals and groups find options for action when prediction and control are impossible.
HSD has been used across sectors and around the world, wherever complex situations create seemingly intractable issues.
HSD essentials was designed
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