Building Adaptive Capacity Across the Community
How do we build adaptive capacity across the whole community?
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Today's Flow
How do we build adaptive capacity across the whole community?
Name a tension you're currently holding at work.
Around the room — one word or one sentence each.
Adaptive Capacity
See — with minimal bias
Understand — make meaning
Act — next wise action
Hold the Tension
Interdependent pairs: both-and
Don't collapse to one side
Wise action emerges from the tension
In Your Groups
Pick an interdependent pair live in the school (e.g., structure ↔ flexibility).
Instead of choosing a side, list moves that honor both.
Notice the wise action that emerges.
Share how holding the pair opened new options.
Next Wise Action & Homework
Toolkit / HSD resources: Adaptive Capacity and Leading in Complexity; Interdependent Pairs.
Post the interdependent pair at the heart of your AAE #4 and a both-and move.
Complete AAE #3; begin AAE #4 (What?).
Before leaving: each person names one next wise action.
Our Simple Rules
Adapted from the HSD-Camino Toolkit (Patterson & Holladay) and HSD Institute learning materials. © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org