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The CDE Model: Conditions That Shape Patterns

What shapes patterns as they emerge in a system?

Human Systems Dynamics for the Whole School · © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org
Sessão 4

Today's Flow

10′
Check-in
10′
Framing
30′
Teach: the CDE Model
35′
Break-out: CDE Profile
20′
Harvest
10′
Wise action + homework
5′
Close
Our Guiding Question

What shapes patterns as they emerge in a system?

Check-in

One-word weather report for the school this week.

Around the room — one word or one sentence each.

Teach

The CDE Model

Containers — hold the system

Differences — potential for change

Exchanges — flows that generate change

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Container
Teach

Shift One Condition

The three are entangled

Change one → the others move

You anticipate, you don't control

Teach

The CDE Profile

Name 3+ containers

List differences (kind & degree)

List exchanges (content, media, frequency)

Break-out · 35 min

In Your Groups

1

Pick a school issue.

2

Name three containers: social, structural, conceptual.

3

For each, list the differences (kind & degree) and exchanges (content, media, frequency).

4

Decide which CDE best explains the pattern; choose one condition to shift.

Harvest

Each group names the single condition it would shift first — and why.

Antes da Sessão 5

Next Wise Action & Homework

Reading

Toolkit: CDE Model section in full.

Reflection

Post the CDE Profile of your AAE #1 issue and the one condition you'll shift.

Adaptive Action

Complete AAE #1 (Now What? + first action) using a CDE shift.

Before leaving: each person names one next wise action.

Close · Celebrate One Thing From Today

Our Simple Rules

1Stand in inquiry
2Leverage the energy of difference
3Search for what is true and useful
4Zoom in and zoom out
5Connect through stories and impacts
6Celebrate life

Adapted from the HSD-Camino Toolkit (Patterson & Holladay) and HSD Institute learning materials. © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org
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