CONVERSATIONS WITH ROBERT

With your subscription for the course, you also gain access to the monthly live webinar called, “Conversations with Robert,” in which students can interact with course’s creator Robert Fritz. Instructions for joining the call and the recording of the previous conversation can be found in the “Conversations” area of the course and is available exclusively to subscribers.

Next Conversation:

February 22, 2026, @5PM ET

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Periodically, we offer a public webinar with Robert Fritz for anyone who might be interested in structural dynamics or the Creative Process. Past webinars have included “Creating in Times of Crisis” during the pandemic and “A Fresh Start for 2021,” in which Robert shared insights about why New Year’s resolutions are not the best way to create change. In February 2024, we held a webinar with Robert and Ivan Fritz entitled “Creating in Difficult Times.”

This past January, we discussed a core principle in Roberts work, that “the Underlying Structure of Anything will Determine it’s Behavior”:

In many areas of life we see familiar patterns: In leadership, team dynamics briefly improve after interventions (such as a team-building retreat) only to immediately revert back to prior dynamics. Or in your personal life, you might have trouble achieving or keeping your goals, and every time it seems like the same sorts of things go wrong.

These things don’t happen because there’s something wrong with the individuals or organizations. Instead, you are seeing the effects of a core principle in structural dynamics which Robert Fritz has identified: The underlying structure of anything will determine its behavior, and it applies to all aspects of our lives. In other words, if you want the outcome to change, you need to create the best possible structure for success.

In this conversation, Robert Fritz and Ivan Fritz discuss what “underlying structure” means in different contexts, how structures shape recurring patterns in personal and professional life, why many change efforts fail to endure, and how identifying and redesigning structure opens the possibility for different outcomes.