Nonviolent Resistance for the 21st Century

Nonviolent Resistance for the 21st Century
DAY 1 EMU Summer Peace Institute Glenda Eoyang Mary Nations Jennifer Jones-Patulli Nothing Is Intractable.

Jennifer Jones-Patulli
Mary Nations HSDP Who are we? Glenda Eoyang HSDP Jennifer Jones-Patulli HSDP

Who are you? What is your name? Where are you from?
What is one sign of 21st century oppression?

Patterns of Oppression: Past & Present

Oppression Unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power
Merriam-Webster

Oppression Oppression is the systematic mistreatment, exploitation, and lowering in status of a group (or groups) of people by another group (or groups). It occurs when a group holds power over others in society by maintaining control over social institutions, and society's laws, rules, and norms.

Levels of Control Depression Repression Suppression Oppression

During this course you will . . .
Days 1 & 2: Learn about dynamics that drive complex change in human systems Days 3 to 7: Respond to oppression: Recognize and understand patterns Analyze and respond creatively and effectively Practice models and methods to respond

You will . . . Focus on one situation of oppression that is significant to you Share the stories of people who see overcoming oppression as their life’s work Use a simple inquiry process to see, understand, and influence oppression when it emerges Plan a “next wise action” that will shift the patterns of oppression Begin a life-long practice of Pattern Spotting

Together we will . . . Day 1: Explore the world of HSD—WHAT?
Day 2: See, understand, and influence patterns— SO WHAT? NOW WHAT?

And . . . Day 3: Play with patterns—WHAT?
Day 4: Patterns of Oppression—WHAT? Day 5: Conditions for Self-Organizing— SO WHAT? Day 6: Difference and Exchange—SO WHAT? Day 7: Our Adaptive Action Reports—NOW WHAT?

Our Patterns of Interaction
Stand in inquiry: Turn judgment into curiosity Turn conflict into shared exploration Turn defensiveness into self-reflection Turn assumptions into questions Tell your story, and hold others’ in confidence Share the air And . . .

Our Patterns Choose a fractal that will tell us about you.
Share your fractal and story with others.

Oppression is a PATTERN not a PROBLEM

Problem Pattern

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging Experts know Wise practitioners know

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging Experts know Wise practitioners know Power pushes Power influences

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging Experts know Wise practitioners know Power pushes Power influences Limited number of factors Unknown number of factors

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging Experts know Wise practitioners know Power pushes Power influences Limited number of factors Unknown number of factors Clear and distinct Massively entangled

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging Experts know Wise practitioners know Power pushes Power influences Limited number of factors Unknown number of factors Clear and distinct Massively entangled Can be solved Must be managed

Problem Pattern Has been solved before Each one is unique Stable and steady Constantly emerging Experts know Wise practitioners know Power pushes Power influences Limited number of factors Unknown number of factors Clear and distinct Massively entangled Can be solved Must be managed Traditional theory & practice Human Systems Dynamics

Pattern Similarities, differences, and connections that have meaning in space and time.

Why Patterns? Complex systems are open, high dimension, nonlinear, that means: Change is perpetual Cause and effect are invisible All assumptions have to be challenged Uncertainty is the rule, not the exception Old ways of seeing, understanding, acting do not work any more

Pattern Logic Use and study of disciplined reasoning
based on the conditions for self-organizing in complex adaptive systems (Eoyang CDE)

See Patterns: Same & Different
HSDP Cohort

Formal Logic Pattern Logic
Predictable future Unknowable future

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts Reversible time Irreversible time

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts Reversible time Irreversible time Competencies Adaptive Capacity

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts Reversible time Irreversible time Competencies Adaptive Capacity Silos Networks

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts Reversible time Irreversible time Competencies Adaptive Capacity Silos Networks Homogeneity Complementarity

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts Reversible time Irreversible time Competencies Adaptive Capacity Silos Networks Homogeneity Complementarity Description Explanation

Predictable future Unknowable future Expertise Inquiry Whole is the sum of parts Whole not the sum of parts Reversible time Irreversible time Competencies Adaptive Capacity Silos Networks Homogeneity Complementarity Description Explanation Constructed Reality Emergent Reality

Understand Patterns: Simple Rules
Systemic agreements that set conditions to shape emergent patterns in self-organization

HSD Simple Rules Teach and learn in every interaction
Give and get value for value Search for the true and the useful Attend to the whole, part, and greater whole Engage in joyful practice Share your HSD story

Influence Patterns: Adaptive Action

Expectations

Evaluate the Program Daily +, -, ? Program as a whole

Complex Systems Generate Sticky Issues
Challenges old assumptions Won’t stay solved Is too big to think of all at one time Has too many pieces to manage Involves massive interdependencies

Share Your Sticky Issue
Write three sentences Share with someone else As you share: No advice Stand in inquiry Watch for your ever and always voice Do not answer questions 45

Through the Looking Glass
HSD offers a new view of reality through: Pattern Logic Adaptive Action Embedded in: Worldview Theory of Change Inquiry

Human Systems Dynamics
Foundations Human Systems Dynamics

Foundations Worldview Human Systems Dynamics

HSD Worldview Change happens at multiple scales at the same time
Accumulation and release of tension causes change Complex systems cannot be predicted or controlled They can be influenced Everyone has power—over what? Praxis is the point—theory and practice Post-post-modern perspective Answers have short shelf-life And . . .

How is your worldview same as or different from HSD’s?
HSDP Cohort

Foundations Worldview Human Systems Dynamics Theory of Change

A collection of individual agents who have the freedom to act in unpredictable ways, and whose actions are interconnected such that they produce system-wide patterns.

Your Sticky Issue Agents Interactions System-Wide Patterns
HSDP Cohort

What are the agents, interactions, and patterns for your sticky issue? So what are the tensions that are are keeping you stuck? Now what will you do to shift the patterns? 56

What are current patterns (CDE)?
What do you observe? What is the research? What . . .

So what are the effects of the conditions?
So what are the tensions? So what is important? So what options do we have? So what does success look like now? So what . . .

Now what will we do? Similarities Differences Connections Now what will we measure or communicate? Now what . . .

What is your sticking place in your Adaptive Action? So what do you notice about your stuck patterns? Now what will you do to shift the patterns? 60

HSD Models and Methods

Foundations Worldview Human Systems Dynamics Theory of Change Inquiry

Inquiry Turn judgment into curiosity
Turn disagreement into shared exploration Turn defensiveness into self-reflection Turn assumptions into questions

What are your judgments, conflicts, self-defensiveness, and assumptions? So what are the tensions that are keeping you stuck? Now what will you do to shift the patterns? 64

For Tomorrow Read Think about Same & Different Finite & Infinite Games
Landscape Diagram Think about Your sticky issue Overnight thoughts

Adaptive Action Experiment 1
WHAT? Observe some human system SO WHAT? Describe its patterns: Similarities Differences Connections NOW WHAT? Do something to shift the pattern NEXT WHAT? Be ready to share tomorrow

What could have worked better? What questions do you have?
Our Adaptive Action What worked well? What could have worked better? What questions do you have?

The Rules Are Changing Field of play Opponents Answers Spectators
Finite Game Infinite Game Field of play Opponents Answers Spectators Constant rules Expertise Scores Competition Purpose: To Win Unbounded Partners Questions Everybody plays Changing rules Looking for fit Relationships Cooperation Purpose: Keep Playing

Examples from Oppression
Finite Games Infinite Games

How do you resist? Finite Games Infinite Games

What aspects of your sticky issue are finite? Infinite? So what are the tensions that are keeping you stuck? Now what will you do to shift the patterns? 75

And, the landscape is more complicated than that . . .
Many things at the same time Shifting from one to the other Different from different perspectives Views from whole, part, greater whole Multiple options for action

Landscape Diagram For each zone: What are risks? What are benefits?
What is oppression? What is resistance?

Where are you now? What zone(s) represent the current state of your sticky issue? Where do you need to be? So what are the tensions that are keeping you stuck? Now what will you do to shift the conditions? Now what will you do to shift the patterns? 82

For Monday Read Think about Complex Adaptive Systems
Three Kinds of Change Four Truths Think about Your sticky issue Overnight thoughts

WHAT? Explore some example of oppression SO WHAT? Describe its patterns: Similarities Differences Connections NOW WHAT? What might you do to shift the pattern? NEXT WHAT? Be ready to share

Jennifer Jones-Patulli
Mary Nations HSDP Who are we? Glenda Eoyang HSDP Jennifer Jones-Patulli HSDP

Today we will . . . Set the framework for the week
Explore oppression as a pattern that self-organizes in a complex adaptive system Use Adaptive Action for nonviolent resistance

Who are all of us? What is your name? Where are you from?
How have you experienced and responded to oppression in the past?

Oppression is a PATTERN not a PROBLEM

Pattern of Oppression? Same Different Connected

During this course you will . . .
Days 1 & 2: Learn about dynamics that drive complex change in human systems Days 3 to 7: Respond to oppression: Recognize and understand patterns Analyze and respond creatively and effectively Practice models and methods to respond

You will . . . Focus on one situation of oppression that is significant to you Share the stories of people who see overcoming oppression as their life’s work Use a simple inquiry process to see, understand, and influence oppression when it emerges Plan a “next wise action” that will shift the patterns of oppression Begin a life-long practice of Pattern Spotting

Last week we . . . Day 1: Explore the world of HSD—WHAT?
Day 2: See, understand, and influence patterns— SO WHAT? NOW WHAT?

And . . . Day 3: Play with patterns—WHAT?
Day 4: Patterns of Oppression—WHAT? Day 5: Conditions for Self-Organizing— SO WHAT? Day 6: Difference and Exchange—SO WHAT? Day 7: Our Adaptive Action Reports—NOW WHAT?

All wicked problems are patterns
What is a wicked problem? So what is the power of Pattern Logic? Now what will we do in this course to build your capacity for nonviolent resistance to oppression?

What CAN you do if you can’t solve it?
WHAT? See patterns in wicked problems SO WHAT? Understand the patterns in useful ways NOW WHAT? Take action to shift the patterns

What are current patterns (CDE)?
What do you observe? What is the research? What . . .

So what are the effects of the conditions?
So what are the tensions? So what is important? So what options do we have? So what does success look like now? So what . . .

Now what will we do? Similarities Differences Connections Now what will we measure or communicate? Now what . . .

What does it look like? Play Assemblage and see how Adaptive Action helps you respond in uncertainty. What do you notice? How is resistance like this game? Different?

A collection of individual agents who have the freedom to act in unpredictable ways, and whose actions are interconnected such that they produce system-wide patterns. © 2015 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Your Understanding/Experience of Oppression
Agents Interactions System-Wide Patterns HSDP Cohort

For Tomorrow Read Think about overnight thoughts Rittel & Webber
Nonviolent Resistance Blogs: Propaganda Fatalism Intractable Truth Self-Interest Think about overnight thoughts

WHAT? Explore the difference between violent and nonviolent resistance SO WHAT? Describe the patterns. How are they Similar Different Connected NOW WHAT? Now what choices do you have to resist oppression? NEXT WHAT? Be ready to share

Today we will . . . Define four patterns of 21st Century oppression
Complete Adaptive Action to shift the complex dynamics of each pattern

Patterns of 21st Century Oppression
Propaganda Patterns of 21st Century Oppression Self-Interest Fatalism Intractable Truth

Propaganda What is it? The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person Merriam-Webster

So What are our options for action?
Propaganda So What are our options for action? Inquiry: Turn judgment into curiosity Turn conflict into share exploration Turn defensiveness into self-reflection Turn assumptions into questions

Patterns Today Tomorrow
Propaganda Now What will you do? Patterns Today Tomorrow Judgment Conflict Defensiveness Assumptions

What is it? A doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them Merriam-Webster Fatalism

Three Kinds of Change: Static Dynamic Dynamical Fatalism

Fatalism

Three Kinds of Change Fatalism Point A to point B
Static Dynamic Dynamical Point A to point B Don’t care what happens in between Main problem: resistance Solution: push harder Examples: Outcome mgt Motivation Facilities change And . . . Fatalism

Fatalism

Static Dynamic Dynamical Point A to point B Don’t care what happens in between Main problem: resistance Solution: push harder Examples: Outcome mgt Motivation Facilities change And . . . Follow smooth path Know initial and predict end point Main problem: disruption Solution: blame someone Project mgt Stages of change Planning Fatalism

Fatalism

Static Dynamic Dynamical Point A to point B Don’t care what happens in between Main problem: resistance Solution: push harder Examples: Outcome mgt Motivation Facilities change And . . . Follow smooth path Know initial and predict end point Main problem: disruption Solution: blame someone Project mgt Stages of change Planning Tension and release Change at one scale bursts through Main problem: unpredictability Solution: watch for patterns Ahas in learning Innovation Economic collapse Fatalism

Dynamical Change Theory of change . . . In oppression . . .
Options for action . . . Fatalism

Tips and Traps for Dynamical Change
Watch the whole, part, and greater whole Accumulate and release tension Think about patterns of frequency and size Focus on what comes before and after Note and celebrate a shift at whatever level Be patient Don’t expect to predict or control Depend on Adaptive Action Fatalism

Patterns Increase Tension Release Tension
Now What will you do? Patterns Increase Tension Release Tension Similarities (C) Differences (D) Connections (E)

What is it? Intractable: Not easily governed, managed, or directed
Truth: The body of real things, events, and facts Merriam-Webster Intractable Truth

Four Truths: Objective Subjective Normative Complex Intractable Truth

Objective Truth Demonstrable and shared by all Evidence: Data
Absolute, undeniable Facts Proof And . . . Evidence: Data Intractable Truth

Subjective Truth Personal beliefs or convictions Evidence: Stories
Emotions Personal conversions Experiences And . . . Evidence: Stories Intractable Truth

Normative Truth Shared agreements within a group Evidence: Agreements
Religions Political parties Class and culture And . . . Evidence: Agreements Intractable Truth

Complex Truth All of the other truths are true all the time
You choose the one most fit for particular purpose at a particular time and place Intractable Truth © 2015 Human Systems Dynamic Institute | Use with permission.

Complex Objective Subjective Normative Now What will you do?

What is it? A concern for one's own advantage and well-being
Merriam-Webster Self-Interest

Self-Interest Attractor Patterns Fractals

Attractor Patterns Random—No pattern is perceptible
Point—Everything moves toward a single point Periodic—System cycles through the same patterns over time Strange—Closed but never repeating

Oppression and Attractor Patterns
Confusion Self-Interest Habits History

Now What? What is the current pattern?
So what would be more fit for function? Now what can you do to shift it?

Fractals What are they? How are they created? Patterns repeat
Many scales How are they created? Simple Rules Repeated cycles

Fractals and Oppression
Similar, never exact Multiple scales Personal Group National Global Simple Rules Cycles of action

Now What? What is the current pattern?
So what would be more fit for function? Now what can you do to shift it?

For Tomorrow Read Think about CDE Model Landscape Diagram
Observe attractor patterns and fracals Overnight thoughts

WHAT? Find patterns in one example of 21st century oppression SO WHAT? Describe the patterns. How are they Propaganda Fatalism Intractable truth Self-interest NOW WHAT? Now what could nonviolent oppression look like? NEXT WHAT? Be ready to share

Today we will . . . Define the conditions that lead to self-organizing oppression Map options for shifting those conditions for nonviolent resistance

Containers: Similarity in Patterns
Anything can contain system agents: Organizational structures Charismatic leaders Policy, process, plans Physical locations Small and tight lead to fast and more predictable self-organizing Large and loose lead to slow and less predictable self-organizing

Containers in Oppression

Differences: Differences in Patterns
Anything can be a difference, but only some are relevant: Measures Power Expertise Few and clear lead to fast, more predictable change More and ambiguous lead to slow, less predictable change

Differences in Oppression

Exchanges: Connections in Patterns
Any flow is an exchange: Resources Information Energy Tight exchanges lead to fast, more predictable change Loose exchanges lead to slow, less predictable change

Exchanges in Oppression

See the Pattern of Oppression Change the Pattern of Oppression
Containers Differences within Exchanges within

How do you move on the Landscape?

How do you move on the Landscape? SHIFT the Pattern!
Open or closed containers Containers

Open or closed containers Many or few differences Containers Differences

Open or closed containers Many or few differences Tight of loose exchanges Containers Differences Exchanges

Nonviolent Resistance to Shift C
What are typical containers for oppression? So what are options for shifting them? Now what will you do to resist?

For Tomorrow Review documents for analysis Think about
Patterns, tensions, and shifts in your own patterns of oppression Overnight thoughts

Today we will . . . Shift Differences and Exchanges
Explore patterns of oppression together

Nonviolent Resistance to Shift D
What are typical differences for oppression? So what are options for shifting them? Now what will you do to resist?

Nonviolent Resistance to Shift E
What are typical exchanges for oppression? So what are options for shifting them? Now what will you do to resist?

Putting it to Work Join a group Analyze the patterns in a reading
Consider how to shift the conditions Prepare to report

WHAT? What are patterns you can see in the document you analyzed? SO WHAT? So what are tensions and creative, nonviolent ways to respond? NOW WHAT? Would you recommend as the next wise actions to move forward? NEXT WHAT? Be ready to share

Patterns of Oppression & Resistance
First 100 Day Resistance Agenda USA Bill of Rights USA Declaration of Independence Gettysburg Address Federalist 9 Travel Ban Exec Order Letter from a Birmingham Jail Racism is Only Racism . . . Indivisible Guide Summary

See the Pattern of Oppression Change the Pattern of Oppression
Containers Differences within Exchanges within Where are they now? Where do you want them to be? How will you shift them?

For Tomorrow Complete your analysis and prepare to present Think about
Patterns, tensions, and shifts in your own patterns of oppression Overnight thoughts

Today we will . . . Now what? Celebrate and close
Share findings from analysis Plan our next wise actions Consider future paths for our group Celebrate and close

As you listen, spot patterns . . .
Generalizations: In general, I notice . . . Exceptions: In general , but . . . Contradictions: On one hand , on the other . . . Surprises: I didn’t expect that . . . Puzzles: I wonder . . .

MY Adaptive Action What have I learned?
So what patterns are most important to me? Now what are my next wise actions?

My GROUP’s Adaptive Action
What patterns have us stuck? So what tensions can I influence to shift? Now what are my next wise actions?

Continue the learning . . . Website hsdinstitute.org
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