Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1: Why a Living Systems Mindset in Leadership?

    • Lesson 1: Introduction: How Living Systems Inform Us to Lead

    • Lesson 2: Living Systems Help Align Your Organization

    • Lesson 3: People Respond to Being Treated as a Living Human!

    • Lesson 4: Adaptation and Innovation are Natural Ways of Being

    • Lesson 5: Objectification in Orgs

    • Lesson 6: Self-Made Solutions

  • 2

    Chapter 2: Interdependence In Nature and Your Organization

    • Lesson 1: Lessons In the Aspen

    • Lesson 2: Why Interdependence Is Essential
  • 3

    Chapter 3: Assess Your Organization

    • Lesson 1: Images of Interdependence

    • Lesson 2: Intro to PDF Exercise

    • Lesson 3: PDF *

    • Lesson 4: Interdependent Systems and Leadership

    • Lesson 5: System Thinking

    • Lesson 6: Why Relationships Matter, Relationship Competency
  • 4

    Chapter 4: Designing your Org with Interdependence

    • Lesson 1: Assessment of Your Company

    • Lesson 2: Resistance Within the Company

    • Lesson 3: Noticing Dynamics

    • Lesson 4: PDF *
  • 5

    Chapter 5: An Exercise in Interdependence

    • Lesson 1: Seventh Generational Thinking

    • Lesson 2: PDF *
  • 6

    Chapter 6

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_06_04 Energy flows are a great diagnostic on the health of the system v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_06_05 Adaptive cycles are critical to regenerative capacity v2
  • 7

    Chapter 8

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_08_04 Org assessment exercise v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_08_03 Launch and Release v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_08_02 Explore, Sustain v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_08_Balcony Metaphor, spotting movement and patterns v2
  • 8

    Chapter 9

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_09_01 Overview v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_09_Ask your Employees about form and patterns v2
  • 9

    Chapter 10

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_10_02 The value of feedback and information v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_10_06 Feedback loops and leadership changing Summary v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_10_05 Feedback loops and working from home v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_10_01 Shifting the way you think about and practice leadership v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_10_04 Feedback loops curb excess v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_10_03 Feedback, transparency, and changing patterns within an org v2
  • 10

    Chapter 11

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_11_01 Working with the living systems form v2

    • Doctor Kathy Allen_11_02 Overview Summary of living systems thinking v2