System Change: The Dance Between Planning and Action
Chris Corrigan’s recent blog post is entitled “We grow through what we go through”. It is a fascinating reminder that learning about change is not enough to result in transformative changes in how we think and behave, especially in emergent, complex and dynamic environments (think justice system for example). Instead, he says:
If I want to learn to think differently I need to put myself in situations where the constraints afford me different possibilities to act differently.
He explores this idea using his own experience of learning to play jazz. You can watch and listen to others playing . . . [more]