Systems Approach: Adaptive Action, Accountability, and Social Justice

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Systems Approach: Adaptive Action, Accountability, and Social Justice MESI Spring Conference March 9, 2016 Royce Holladay, M.Ed., HSDP rholladay@hsdinstitute.org Greetings, and welcom. I am Royce Holladay, Human systems Dynamics Professional –former educator, consultant, coach, artist—across a number of areas of interest and applications—social justice is always a part of what I explore, learn, and work to reinforce. I am pleased to be here today to talk with you all and to offer you three tools for exploring the impact of social justice work in your own issues. in the interest of full disclosure: I am not an evaluator. I don’t pretend to have the skill or knowledge you all have in evaluating and measuring systems. What I do have is a deep understanding of the dynamics of human systems and a practitioner’s perspective for assessing and understanding the impact of my work to shift patterns in a system. What I am offering today are not tools for evaluation. They are tools for understanding your systems and for making sense of the changes you see in your systems. It would be great if any of you could take these tools and adapt/explaing/use them in ways that contribute to the field of evaluation in meaningful and useful ways. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

What’s up today? See, understand, and take action in the complexity that shapes social justice issues Engage with dynamics that shape patterns of social justice Practice three assessment processes to understand the impact of your own most intractable challenges Today, we will talk about how we can see, understand, and take action to assess and shift the complexity that shapes social justice issues. We will engage with the dynamics that shape the patterns of your own social justice challenges. And we will play with three assessment processes to understand the impact of you own © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

You will leave with: Clearer understanding of how patterns of social justice emerge Three options for assessing your system to shape patterns of social justice An action plan to use in your own challenging complex systems It’s my goal that you will leve here with a clearer understanding of how patterns of social justice emerge and three ways to assess your system as you shape those patterns. Finally, I want you to go with a plan to use in your own most challenging social justice issue. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Reflection Take 3 minutes to reflect on your own challenging issues. Consider: What is the challenge you want to explore? What makes it so challenging? Where are the tensions in the system? © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Speak and Listen Get into groups of 3 Each person will share his/her own challenge for 3 minutes After 3 minutes, next person will talk about his/her challenge After everyone has shared, engage with each other for 3 minutes to identify what is the same and different across your issues Remember: When one is talking, no one interrupts or comments Focus on the three questions from the reflection © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Why is it so hard to reconcile social justice and accountability? Reconciline social justice and accountability has long been a challenge—Grantors, agencies, non-profits want to assess the impacts of their work, and often they want concrete numbers and measures. And as you know, often those measures don’t really reflect the changes and impacts in human systems terms. Who was changed and how much? What was the overall impact on relationships? What really changed in how people work together? What is the coherence within the community, organization or institution? Social justice as an outcome basically defies traditional accountability measures. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Social justice is a pattern . . . © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

that emerges (or not) from human interactions . . . “Social justice” does not exist because we will it or because we name it. It exists as a pattern or interaction in the system because of the ways humans interact. When we treat each other with compassion… When we set up systems to assist those who cannot assist themselves… When we allow access . . .When we consider privilege of humanity rather than of race or gender or power or position © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

in a complex adaptive system. System-wide patterns emerge To influence future interactions Agents interact Think about a time when you have come into an existing team or group. They knew the rules and you didin’t. Think of a time when you helped a new member of a system enteryour group….What did you share with them that was not written down. Now think about patterns of injustice. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Patterns are shaped by . . . Known and unknown forces High levels of diversity Non-linear causality These are the conditions that shape complexity…Describe them...When a system can deal with these conditions around them, the system has what we call Adaptive Capacity © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Adaptive Capacity as an indicator . . . System resilience and ability to respond Sustainable – over time Robust – in a single incident © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Accountability: Measuring Social Justice? Emergent Shaped by multiple, known, and unknown forces Changeable over time Open to subjective truth So that’s why it’s so difficult to measure social justice…All these characteristics that enable a system to respond to changes and diversity are difficult to measure in traditiona, quantitative terms. But a system that deals with the diversity it faces, that response in productive and resilient ways to multiple forces, that can change over time and can honor subjective truth...that system has adaptive capacity and is one to be reckoned with. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

What can you do? Rely on iterative evaluation Consider self- and system-assessments that are based on Inquiry about your environment Pattern Logic about the dynamics around you Simple Rules that shape your patterns So what choices do you have as you consider the impacts of social justice programs? © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Inquiry © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Inquiry Turn judgment into curiosity Turn disagreement into shared exploration Turn defensiveness into self-reflection Turn assumptions into questions © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Inquire into the patterns around you . . . Similarities, differences, and connections that have meaning across space and time Space and time Tension in the system Formal or informal More than a word Personal or global © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Pattern Spotters Generalizations Exceptions Contradictions Surprises Puzzles Reminders © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Hints . . . Use one, some, or all Look for the tension in the system Look where you can act Amplify the tension points Damp the tension Build where you can touch © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Pattern Spotters Reflection Use the Pattern Spotters to consider your own challenge Share in your triad © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Pattern Logic © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Pattern Logic is . . . Use and study of disciplined reasoning based on the conditions for self-organizing (Eoyang) © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

It’s important because . . . Pattern Logic builds adaptive capacity to respond to unpredictable change in complex environments See the patterns in the world around us Understand the implications and meanings of those patterns Respond with wise, informed action © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Conditions that shape emergent patterns . . . Who are we? What’s important? How do we connect? © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Map the Conditions Who are we? What if your identity is Too strong? Too weak? Unfocused? What’s important? How do we connect? © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

What if your differences are Too strong? Too many? Undifferentiated? Who are we? What if your differences are Too strong? Too many? Undifferentiated? What’s important? How do we connect? © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

What if your connections are Too strong? Too weak? Unfocused? Who are we? What if your connections are Too strong? Too weak? Unfocused? What’s important? How do we connect? © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Map the conditions: Considering . . . Amplify . . . Damp . . . Container Differences Exchanges © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Pattern Logic Reflection What can you see in the conditions that shape your system? Where are the conditions out of balance? What might you do to bring them back into balance? Share in your triad. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Simple Rules © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Simple Rules (SR) Generate coherence across a complex system Inform action and decisions At all scales Across roles, groups, individuals © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Simple Rules Shape patterns Looking retrospectively Planning prospectively Inform action Address all three conditions © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Identify / Define Simple Rules (Retrospective) Identify dominant patterns that shape system-wide tension Consider rules that might shape those patterns: Container (Identity) Differences (Important) Exchanges (Connections) Name some SRs and check them out with the locals © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Identify / Define Simple Rules (Prospective) Identify dominant patterns that could shape system-wide tensions you want Consider rules that might shape those patterns: Container (Identity) Differences (Important) Exchanges (Connections) Name some SRs and check them out with the locals © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Cupertino Union School District Teach and learn in every interaction Search for the true and the useful Engage in joyful practice Build on assets of self and others See, understand, and influence patterns in the whole, the part, and the greater whole Act with courage © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Assess System Performance with Simple Rules Create descriptors to inform the system What would it look like around here, if. . . Consider all scales – policy, practice, relationships, expectations Engage at points of implementation Develop rubrics to reflect change over time © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Simple Rules in Your System How might this approach help you (and others) understand your challenge? How might you invite others into the conversation? Share in your triad. © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

If you want peace, work for justice. --Pope Paul VI Conclusion © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Today we explored . . . How patterns of social justice emerge in complex systems Three options for assessing your system to shape patterns of social justice Actions you can use in your own challenging complex systems © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

For more info . . . Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization Glenda Eoyang and Royce Holladay Radical Rules for Schools: Adaptive Action in Complex Change Leslie Patterson, Royce Holladay, and Glenda Eoyang Simple Rules: Radical Inquiry into Self Royce Holladay and Mallary Tytel © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Thanks For your time and attention For your participation today For the work you do every day to promote social justice Be in touch! rholladay@hsdinstitute.org © 2016 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.