Organisations are living systems not industrial pipelines. This is the support of my workshop presenting the 2 Loops model by Berkana Institute, a model of change in society and organisations inspired by the cycle of life of living systems

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Change The Perspective
On Change
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2. Organisations are living systems…

3. …They emerge, grow, decline and die

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In an Agile Journey adoption,
what is needed to change first ?

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In your professional environment,
what is needed to change first ?

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The 2 Loops of Change
Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze, The Berkana Institute
Dominant
Emerging

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The Dominant System
Where are we in the system we’re talking about?

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The Dominant System
Rise
The delusional sense of permanence
Decay
Peak

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The Dominant System
Pioneers
Peak zone
Innovations

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The Transition
Peak zone
Pioneers
Name
Connect
Nourish

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From Connections to
Patterns
Create a coherent
pattern of
organisation
Trust
Shared Purpose/
Cause
Pioneer
s

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Exercice
Pioneers
Name
Connect
Nourish
1. What is the change you want to see?
2. In your own environment, name the tribe of pioneers
who are accelerators of that change?
3. How do/can you actually help pioneers connect?
4. What are the ways you can nourish them?

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Forms of resistance
Stewart
Copy the new based on the old logic….
Innovations

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Dominant to Dying
Stewart
Compost
Pioneers
Decay

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Dominant to Dying
Stewart
Hospice
Compost
How do we provide care and compassion to the dying system?
Illuminate

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Compassion & Hospice
Protect
Hospice
Illuminate
1. What actions of compassion toward the people in the
dominant system can you put in place so they won’t be
threatened ?

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Exercice
Protect
Hospice
Illuminate
1. Who are, in the dominant system the protectors of the
pioneers ?
2. What are the ways you can illuminate and amplify the
pioneer work so that the people in the dominant system
can become willing to engage on the new path?

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The 2 Loops model of change
Complexity expresses itself at intersections
Dominant
Emergent

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Deconstruct Our
own beliefs
Dave Gray

22. From Reality To Obvious
Experience
Relevant to Needs
Assumptions
Obvious
Reality Credits to Dave Gray - Liminal Thinking
THE
GAP
Self-Sealing Bubble
of Beliefs

23. Liminal Space
Set of beliefs B
Set of beliefs A
The Threshold
“the level or point at which you start to experience something, or at which something starts to happen"
Cambridge Dictionary

24. New system Beliefs
“Old System” Beliefs
Resilient Learning happens in the
Liminal Space

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Theory U Change Curve
A B
Presence
Co-initiale Co-Evolve
A B
x

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Enter The Liminal Space
#Experienc
e
#Mirror
Beliefs
#Beliefs
#Assumptions
#Needs
“Involvement”
What seem obvious
to us that makes our
way the “right way”?
“Leaving”
The threshold
“Transition ”
What things that
are dangerous to
me could make
me have the same
type of beliefs?
What
Assumption did
we make ?
What are the beliefs of
dominant/ resistant
groups?
How can I hospice
the need of the
Dying system?
“Re-Involvement”

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Train your Presence skill
“Stuck” Exercice
• Think of a blocking situation in your life, you are “stuck” in it
• Take posture that represents your “stuck”. Like a statue
• Stay in this position and pay attention of your physical and emotional sensations. Stay present
yo your sensations.
• Name this 1st posture by one word ( Word 1)
• Gently, let the body move as it wants, toward a new position. Don’t push mentally, let the body
do the work. Stay present to your movement, let yourself guide by your body.
• When the body wishes to stop the movement, take the new posture.
• Stay present in this new position and pay attention to tour physical and emotional sensations.
• Name this 2nd posture by one word (word 2)
• Write the transition experience in the chat in the following format: “From word1 to word2”

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Emergent system’s
“Obvious”
“Agile” pioneers
beliefs
Dominant system’s
“Obvious”
Mainstream beliefs
Assumptions
“Deconstruct Beliefs”
Canvas

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“Deconstruct Beliefs”
Canvas
“Agile” Pioneers
beliefs
Mainstream beliefs
Assumptions
Shift to
compassion
Needs
What can make us
have
similar beliefs?
Dangers
Emergent system’s
“Obvious”
Dominant system’s
“Obvious”
Needs
Dangers

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“Deconstruct Beliefs”
Canvas
“Agile”
Pioneers beliefs
Mainstream beliefs
Assumptions
Shift to
compassion
Needs
What can make us
have
similar beliefs?
Dangers
Emergent system’s
“Obvious”
Dominant system’s
“Obvious”
Needs
Dangers
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3
4
2
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2
8
2
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31. –Arthur Schopenhauer
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third,
it is accepted as being self-evident.”

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Thank You !
Oana Juncu
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