CORE CONCEPTS
Activities to Develop Powerful Transformation Systems
These activities are usually sequential. Repeating the cycle of the activities is the core work of a Transformation Catalyst – the agent that works on behalf of the T-system to steward its development. Effective Stewarding requires the support – and usually, active engagement of – diverse stakeholders in the system.
Connecting
1. Seeing: We co-develop partners’ understanding of the dynamics, structures, participants, and relationships in their transformation system. This understanding is the basis for powerful collaborative action.
2. Sensemaking: We help initiatives develop broadly shared understandings, visions, narratives, documents, and images of the (current and changing) transformation system and/or issues that need to be dealt with in that system, as well as shared aspirations and goals.
Cohering
3. Designing Adaptive Pathways: We bring together transformation system participants to jointly identify actions to strengthen their collective impact and address deep systems challenges that typically impede transformation.
4. Enacting Adaptive Pathways: We co-create processes to aid activation of the pathways.
Amplifying
5. Co-creating transformation capacities: We support emergence of needed capabilities to co-create transformative leadership, metrics, communications, change and action strategies, structures, and resourcing.
6. Developing transformation infrastructure: We support emergence of transformation systems’ infrastructure, including the capacity to connect, cohere, and amplify, and developing as transformation catalysts for their own transformation system.
Flourishing
7. The end goal of Bounce Beyond's strategy is a world where all systems have opened a gateway to a life which is flourishing for all.
See also:
- Waddock, Sandra, Steve Waddell, Peter Jones, and Ian Kendrick. “Convening Transformation Systems to Achieve System Transformation.” Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change 2, no. 1 (2022): 77–100.
