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May 09, 2025
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ODL-679 Organizations as Living Systems2 semester credits
This course explores living systems theory and systems thinking and their application to working with human social systems. A leader, change agent, or intervener must develop new skills to create the conditions for a social system to emerge into a new whole. Students explore how to design and create the conditions for a social system to self-organize to a new and higher level of functioning by “coming along side” the emerging system to midwife it into this higher state of complexity and functionality.
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Objective: Students will be able to:
Define the characteristics and principles of living systems.
Apply living systems concepts and principles to inform the design and leadership of change in social systems.
Use systems thinking tools and skills to increase understanding of an adaptive challenge faced by a client system.
Demonstrate a heightened awareness of the importance of ascertaining and working at the appropriate depth of intervention in a system.
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