This article is about common traps when trying to scale individual and group coherence and argues for a more ecological approach to scaling change, using SenseMaker.

In case of emergence, don’t call a facilitator NOT ALL GROUP PROCESSES LAND IN COHERENCE. And even when they do, not all of them stay there. Many lose it on the way, and some never quite touch it at all. After our group process — the initial one in Alderlore and the ones that followed over the years, as described in the first article of this mini series of three  — we began to notice that the same kinds of traps, diversions, and coping strategies showed up again and again, e

The first in a series of three essays on coherence and group processes

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