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Different Ways of Seeing & Leading Asset Building in Complex Systems

How can we see and influence change in complex human systems? This question forms the basis for work underway between Search Institute staff and Human Systems Dynamics staff.

During the summer and fall of 2006, a webinar series was created to begin exploring complex change as it relates to asset-building settings, whether they are community initiatives, large systems, individual organizations, families or other places people come together to interact.

Supporting Information on 2007 Webinar Series

2006 Webinar Series

The Leading Asset Building through Complex Change webinar series has been archived here—click on the links below to download the webinar slides.

• Leading Asset Building through Complex Change, Part 1
• Leading Asset Building through Complex Change, Part 2
• Leading Asset Building through Complex Change, Part 3
• Leading Asset Building through Complex Change, Part 4

2007 Webinar Series

The series was continued in 2007 with the following PowerPoint presentations.

• The Landscape Diagram
• Self-Organizing Change
• Planning in the Midst of Chaos
• Sustainability: Balancing Stability and Change

Complex Change Track at the 2006 HC•HY Conference

At the 2006 Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth conference in Minneapolis, a preconference day and conference track offered participants a chance to interact with concepts of complex change and relate them to their own settings.
Read about the sessions offered in the track

You can download the PowerPoint presentations and corresponding handouts by clicking below.

• Pre-Conference Presentation: Understanding and Leading Asset Building as Complex Change
• Complex Change Bibliography
• Complexity 101 Handout
• Dozen Differences Presentation
  • Dozen Differences Handout
• Patterns Presentation
• Simple Rules Presentation
  • Simple Rules Handout
• Sustainability Presentation
  • Sustainablity Action Planning Handout
• Creating a Learning Network
• Open Space Handout

One-Page Concept Papers

A series of one page concept papers was developed to provide discussion starters. You can download these brief overviews below.

• Butterfly Effect
• Landscape Diagram
• Periodic Attractor
• Point Attractor
• Random Attractor
• Simple Rules
• Strange Attractor
• Stretch and Fold