Order from Chaos:
Practices for Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
with Peggy Holman
A 90-minute live webinar for leaders at all levels confronting complexity
and uncertainty
Thursday, December 9 at 2:00–3:30 pm ET | Buy this prerecorded webinar
Description
What does it take to see opportunities where others see problems? How do you bring people together to pursue possibilities when faced with upheaval? As our organizations, communities, and other social systems experience increased uncertainty, a framework for engaging with disruption and the unknown becomes key to meeting today’s challenges.
In this live session, change process expert Peggy Holman provides theory, principles, and hands-on practices for taking the “emergency” out of emergence. Drawing lessons from the natural sciences, she will help you make practical sense of the deeper patterns of whole system change. Through principles and practices from processes such as Open Space Technology, Future Search, the World Café, and Appreciative Inquiry, you will increase your ability to work with disruptions and achieve outcomes that serve you and your organization or community well.
Attend this webinar to:
- Learn a theory of change grounded in nature’s way of changing—“emergence”—in which order arises out of chaos.
- Take away practices that you can immediately apply when facing challenging, disruptive situations in your organization or community.
- Explore a set of “operating principles” for successfully engaging emergence.
Pricing
This 90-minute interactive session is $129.00 per site (a single phone
line). You can use a speakerphone so that a group of people can participate.
You will also have unlimited access to the recorded version following
the event.
Date and Time
The live webinar is being held on Thursday, December 9, from 2:00
to 3:30 p.m. ET. When you register, you will receive detailed information
about how to call in and participate.
Presenters
Peggy Holman has helped explore a nascent field of engagement strategies that involve “whole systems” of people from organizations and communities in creating their own future. In the recently updated edition of The Change Handbook, Peggy and co-authors Tom Devane and Steven Cady profiled 61 change methods. Her forthcoming book, Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity (Berrett-Koehler, September 2010), dives beneath these methods to make visible deeper patterns of change that can guide us through turbulent times.
