About

This website offers stories and tools for any educator who wants to make teaching and learning more caring, generative, and courageous, especially in these challenging times. We are convinced that you can make a difference, no matter your place in the system. These stories and resources are grounded in the study of complex systems–more specifically, in the field of human systems dynamics. We offer them in support of your decision making in these unsettling times. Here is more information about this website.

Who Are We ?

I am Royce Holladay . . .

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	I am Leslie Patterson, an Associate of Human Systems Dynamics and a long-time literacy teacher and teacher educator. In collaboration with Glenda Eoyang, the founder of HSD, Royce Holladay, and many other HSD Associates around the world, I use HSD concepts and tools in both my personal and my professional life

What is Human Systems Dynamics?

As a practice and a field of study, Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) helps us make sense of complex patterns that emerge we work and play together in families, organizations, and communities. HSD is particularly useful when

• Resources are tight and demand is high
• Your old tools and techniques fall short
• Players are many, diverse, or constantly changing
• Culture and/or organizational habits are obsolete
• Too much or too little control makes people crazy
• There are so many moving parts you don’t know where to start.

In other words, HSD helps us move from being overwhelmed with problems to being able to see patterns, understand them, and take action to influence patterns to be more useful or generative for the system.

What Is the Human Systems Dynamics Institute?

Through the HSD Institute The work of HSD is currently being applied in such diverse arenas as organization development, peace making/conflict resolution, education, evaluation, performance management, leadership, and personal growth/development. Practitioners around the world are using the principles of HSD to enrich their work, teach clients and students, and expand the effectiveness of their individual fields of practice.

For more information, see Human Systems Dynamics Institute. The founder and Executive Director of the HSD Institute is Glenda Eoyang. Her TED-x talk, Unstuck, provides a glimpse into the power of HSD.   

What is the HSD Institute Vision?

People everywhere thrive because we
see patterns clearly,
seek to understand, and
act with courage to
transform turbulence and uncertainty into
possibility for all.