Patterns and Possibilities - Thriving in Uncertainty with Miss Handie

Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.  We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle. 

In this time of COVID disruption, we are missing two things that are essential to decision making: 1) Complete information and 2) Reliable connections with a community to create a meaningful, shared reality.  In this episode, we’re breaking down how to make decisions and feel good that those decisions are both appropriate and effective. Using HSD “Simple Rules” can supply us with what we need. Pre...

Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.  We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle. 

In this episode, we’re answering an important question: How can we use HSD to help us see, understand, and influence patterns of health and sustainability as we move through the current crisis and work together to shape whatever comes next?

Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.  We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle. 

To thrive in complexity you have to adapt—quickly and often! You can’t afford to wait for deep analysis or complete data. You don’t have time to take things apart, fix each piece, and put them back together. Even if you could, complex systems are massively entangled and emergent, so fixing parts may not fix the whole.  Sit back, relax, and listen as we share new possibilities for old problems...

Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.  We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle. 

HSD Professionals have focused on personal and professional wicked issues from around the world. They have covered a wide range of issues. A physical therapist was not able to touch her most vulnerable clients during the COVID lockdown. A middle-aged professional wonders how to respond when his city turns becomes a police state overnight. We have found no solutions, but we have found creative opti...

Affirmations of the Heart uses HSD language to help you to See, Understand, and Influence your world with calmness, kindness, and resilience.  We invite you to listen to the affirmations, repeat them aloud and make them part of your daily pattern. If you enjoy what you hear, please share them with the folks in your circle. 

The transformation that results from the HSD approach is true to the science and useful in many different challenges and contexts. In this episode, we will explore transformation from the HSD perspective: What is it? How can we set conditions for transformation that brings productivity, health, and well-being to human systems?

We’re establishing a new pattern in HSD that we hope you’ll enjoy. We invite you to listen to 120 seconds of soothing affirmations, repeat them aloud and make this your new daily pattern.

In today’s Age of Uncertainty, the winning strategy is to make a plan and hold it lightly. Keep asking questions outside the boundaries of your own silo. Support others in their plans, and hold them lightly, too. In school we learned that you should make a plan and stick to it, but that is a losing game when you are faced with unexpected events. In today’s uncertain environments, you have to be re...

Traditional strategic plans are built around long lists of strategies with multiple objectives and tasks. Such a plan locks you into a single understanding of the environment and limited expectations for the future. In this episode, you’ll learn how HSD models and methods can transform strategic planning into meaningful, useful, and Adaptive Planning.  

There was a time when a leader needed (and had time for) a catalogue full of training programs. Each task had its own skills, and each skill had its own course. As the role of the leader became more complex, the number of tasks—and the number of courses—multiplied. At the same time, the leader’s calendar filled up, leaving little space for learning. This pattern emerges often in the Age of Uncerta...

We have our own stories to tell, and we have important stories we need to hear. But how can our stories compete with all the noise? We need compelling narratives to capture the imagination and reveal deeper meaning, so ours stand out from the noise. We need to be prepared to understand the deeper meaning in the stories we hear. How can we sift through the noise to find the compelling stories of ou...

In the 21st century, people are looking for ways to build coalitions and partnerships that make a difference in the world. Whether it’s corporate, non-profit, or governmental strategy, organizations and groups are realizing they can’t do it all. The challenges are too big. People, ideas, and needs are too diverse. We will discuss how we can form partnerships that make a difference in the differenc...

This episode focuses on Generative Engagement, an HSD-based model/method that can help you explore your system to make decisions about how you can set conditions for more productive interactions. Listen and learn how to use Generative Engagement in a challenging human system where you live, work, or play.

A critical capacity that ensures generative engagement is a deep understanding of power from an HSD perspective. In HSD, we talk about “power with” rather than “power over” to describe generative relationships. Do those who wield influence in the system listen to and consider perspectives of those who have less influence? Do those who traditionally have less influence in the system believe their v...

Facilitation has outgrown its traditional image. It’s no longer about an individual at the front of the room guiding a group of people through processes. It’s no longer just about decision making, conflict resolution, or team building. Many factors in today’s world have brought a new look to the role of facilitation. We will discuss how the role can be used today to enrich and expand conversations...

In our first episode, Miss Handie explains what Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) is, why it matters, and how it can be used to transform wicked issues. She invites you to join her on the HSD journey with an open mind and a foolish sense of curiosity. Miss Handie believes that foolish curiosity opens the door to endless possibilities with HSD that everyone can experiment with, experience, and enjoy.

Human Systems Dynamics introduces its theory-based approach to seeing, understanding, and influencing patterns in a podcast format. New episodes are published every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at noon c.s.t.