OSR 519 - Systems - Applying Living Systems Theory

3 credit hours

This course integrates 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 see how a social system is trying 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. Required.