HSD Paradigm

Adaptive Capacity: A Paradigm for the 21st Century

HSD is committed to praxis: practice-informed theory and theory-informed practice

Human Systems Dynamics is simple and practical. It also challenges fundamental assumptions about what we can know and how we can act with intention, even under conditions of radical uncertainty.

Building Adaptive Capacity

Based on principles of complexity science and chaos theory, HSD gives you hope for intentional action, even when you cannot predict or control outcomes. The result is a worldview that brings ontology and epistemology together into an adaptive praxis. This paper attempts to explain the philosophical roots of the work and demonstrate why Adaptive Action and Pattern Logic are breakthroughs in the capacity for individual and collective adaptation in uncertain situations..

“What is the nature of an emerging reality? So what does it mean to know in such an emerging reality? So what is change in the complex world of human experience?

Now what can we do in the present to influence our emerging future?.”

— Human Systems Dynamics: A Paradigm for the 21st Century, Glenda H. Eoyang