The document provides guidance on using a four-box framework to develop a plan for addressing a challenging situation. It involves identifying what is and is not working currently, what a better future looks like, and potential concerns. The framework then guides forming a story for the preferred future, including specific actions and learning early warnings if things are not working.

1. Your screen…two windows open…

3. Sara Ismail-Beigi, Jake Jacobs, and Jonathan Thomas Meenach This material is based on work by Barry Johnson and Polarity Management Associates and Jake Jacobs and Winds of Change Group A Better, Faster and Easier Way To Get Through Your Day: Large Scale Change Tools and Your Life April 14, 2010

8. Getting Started Four Boxes on a Sheet of Paper / Screen

10. Your Situation What’s Not Working

11. Your Situation What’s Not Working

12. Your Situation What Better Looks Like What Better Looks Like

15. Your Situation What’s Working

16. Your Situation What’s Working

17. Your Situation Concerns You Have About the Future Concerns About the Future

20. Today’s Story

23. The Story We Want To Tell Your Preferred Future is a Combination of the Best of Your Past and Present and a Compelling Picture of Possibilities of Your Future

24. Telling the Story We Want To Live Concerns About The Future What actions can I take to begin creating what better looks like? 3 Specific Actions (What, By When) Change happens faster when you think and act as if the future were now as you plan for your future What actions can I take to gain and maintain what’s already working? 3 Specific Actions (What, By When)

26. Telling the Story We Want To Live Concerns About The Future What actions can I take to gain and maintain what’s already working? 3 Specific Actions (What, By When) Change happens faster when you think and act as if the future were now as you plan for your future What actions can I take to begin creating what better looks like? 3 Specific Actions (What, By When)

29. Telling the Story We Want To Learn From Concerns About The Future Early warnings you’re starting to experience things not working Problems are always easier to prevent ahead of time instead of finding and fixing after they have happened Early warnings you’re starting to experience things not working

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