Complexity Coaching

Predictive processing and a complexity approach to personal transformation cowritten by Adrian Wagner & Anne Caspari In leadership development and coaching, people often try to create lasting change through new beliefs, positive affirmations or, worse, mindset training. But lasting transformation does not happen by repeating new sentences or resetting the mind, as we switch a computer on and off. It rather happens when the nervous system learns a new way of relating to reali

Two Distinctly Different Logics of Change What prompted it is something I keep running into in organisational life: development and emergence being treated as if they described the same kind of change. They don’t. They are structurally different processes with different governing logics, and conflating them produces interventions that systematically address the wrong thing. The cost is a misdirection at the level of design. The article begins by getting that distinction right

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.

With the number of decisions that we make every day, it is astonishing that the process of making decisions is not well understood. So, how do we make the best choice? The very act of deciding seems a bit like the piece of soap in the bathtub: the more you want to get a grip on it, the more it slips away. Much is talked today about VUCA conditions, and decision-making in complex adaptive spaces with highly uncertain outcomes, volatile ingredients and complex relationships is