This paper is a synthesis of my learning in Fielding Graduate University’s school of Human and Organization Development’s PhD course KA703: Systems, society, culture, community. It is the result of nine weeks of intensive reading, writing, and online dialogue with a band of colleague PhD students and with faculty professor David Willis in our school’s online forum Felix. The purpose of the paper is to summarize my learning, and to think about this learning in the light of my learning goals for this course in its entirety, which consists of this overview, an in-depth paper, and an applied. Also, it serves to point out its place in my overall PhD project plan.