![]() Are we learning effectively from what is already happening in relation to transformational change, and could this research and practice be more effectively shared in the future? How we can develop our capacity to notice things and learn from our experiences?Ī systemic approach: A systems approach is needed to understand the interdependencies between sub-systems that can make transformation difficult. The roles of brokerage and intermediation are important in developing intentional learning, carrying it to other places and creating the space and enabling environment for change. This requires honesty and profound enquiry that can seem risky and counter-cultural, as it involves a shift from ‘best practice’ accounts that gloss over ‘failure’ to real, messy practice. Learning focus: Learning has to be an intentional aspect of designing and progressing future work in order to obtain the level of detail and depth that we need to understand the complexity of the systems of concern we are working with. In order to make sense of this term, we need to ground concepts from the literature in examples, as without understanding the context we are limited to abstract conversations. To aid system-wide learning there should be investment in learning facilitators and the deliberate design of intermediary processes, organisations and objects to bring people together, and open up space for sharing experience and planning future experiments and interventions.Įnsuring the necessary richness and depth of learning requires courage, honesty and profound enquiry which can seem risky and counter-cultural, especially in more technical organisations.Īpplied practice: Future work has to be embedded in the real-life practice of making interventions in the systems that concern us. To make sense of complex systems in order to be able to transform requires us to develop our capacity to learn as individuals, as organisations and as systems.Īction-learning and action-research approaches can be used to engage people in the system through the process of setting the questions for enquiry, collecting material, and in reviewing and evaluating what results. ![]() For example, they have to be comfortable with paradox and capable of paying attention to many different groups and perspectives at the same time. By understanding this, and including the perspectives of others in this system, we can start to open up new ways of seeing the current situation and new visions for the future.Īs well as understanding the complexity and interdependencies of the system, leaders of transformational processes need many competencies, some of which may be quite rare. ![]() Systems and complexity approaches help us to gain a picture of the whole system, the history of the situation and why it is currently dysfunctional or unfair. There is some doubt about our ability as humans to adequately anticipate the changes likely to result from a changing climate and allow sufficient time to prepare for the scale of change required for deliberate transformation. There are several ways to conceive transformational adaptation and there is a distinct lack of clarity about the spatial scale (or scales) and sectoral scope at which transformational adaptation operates, as well as the level of control that can be exerted over the outcomes of the change process. direct questioning of the effectiveness of existing systems, social injustices and power imbalances.a focus on the future and long-term change.system-wide change or changes across more than one systems.Transformational adaptation is frequently contrasted with incremental adaptation and is characterised by: There is a growing tendency to use the term transformation, reflecting a sense that greater, more significant adaptation responses will be required in the face of a global failure to mitigate the causes of anthropogenic climate change. Do incremental and transformational adaptation operate along a spectrum (as presented in this figure) or is a paradigm shift required in the way that the issue is framed? See the report for in-depth discussion (download available in the right-hand column of this page). 11 of the report (redrawn from Thornton & Manasfi, 2010).
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