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Course Description

 Author of Leading from the Roots: Nature Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World, Dr Kathleen Allen, explores why bringing a living systems mindset will improve the efficacy of your leadership. She explains how living systems evolve with information and feedback and why applying the same strategic sharing of information in our organizations can help develop  the organization and the individuals who work there. 

She discusses the value of applying the Seventh Generation principle. This is the concept that urges the current generation to live and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future.

In this course you will learn:

  • Why a living systems mindset in leadership is important
  • How living systems help align your organization
  • How to design your organization with interdependence 
  • Why movement in your organization matters

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Introduction
  • 2

    Chapter 1 Why Leading with a Living System Mindset Optimizes Organizational Resilience and Vitality

    • Lesson 1: How Living Systems Inform us to Lead

    • Lesson 2: Multi-Generational Leadership

    • 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 Organisations

    • Lesson 6: Self-Made Solutions
  • 3

    Chapter 2 How Living Systems Behave

    • Lesson 1: Interdependence Diversity Resilience, Constant Change Feedback and Information

    • Lesson 2: Why Interdependence is Essential
  • 4

    Chapter 3 Assess Your Organization

    • Lesson 1: Adaptive Cycle

    • Lesson 2: PDF Exercise Introduction

    • Lesson 3- Images of Flow and Movement Exercise

    • Lesson 4: Interdependent Systems and Leadership

    • Lesson 5: System Thinking

    • Lesson 6: Why Relationships Matter, Relationship Competency
  • 5

    Chapter 4 Evolve with Feedback and Information

    • Lesson 1: Assessment of your Company

    • Lesson 2: Resistance within the Company

    • Lesson 3: Noticing Dynamics
  • 6

    Chapter 5 Living Systems Will Help Us Transform Our Organizations

    • Lesson 1: Seventh Generational Thinking
  • 7

    Chapter 6 Organizations in the Flow

    • Lesson 1: Energy flows are a Great Diagnostic on the Health of the System

    • Lesson 2: Adaptive Cycles are Critical to Regenerative Capacity
  • 8

    Chapter 7 Explore, Sustain, Launch and Release!

    • Lesson 1: Balcony Metaphor, Spotting Movement and Patterns

    • Lesson 2: Explore, Sustain

    • Lesson 3: Launch and Release

    • Lesson 4: Organizational Assessment

  • 9

    Chapter 8 Form and Patterns

    • Lesson 1: Overview

    • Lesson 2: Ask your Employees about Form and Patterns
  • 10

    Chapter 9 Feedback Loops

    • Lesson 1: Shifting the Way You Think About and Practice Leadership

    • Lesson 2: The Value of Feedback and Information

    • Lesson 3: Feedback, Transparency and Changing Patterns Within an Organization

    • Lesson 4: Feedback Loops Curb Excess

    • Lesson 5: Feedback Loops and Working From Home

    • Lesson 6: Feedback Loops and Leadership Changing Summary
  • 11

    Chapter 10 Summary

    • Lesson 1: Working with the Living Systems Form

    • Lesson 2 Overview Summary of Living Systems Thinking