When the Organisation Encounters Itself: Hosting Conversations Around Undecidable Premises

Hosting conversation in this context means helping contain what becomes difficult in the conversation: the anxiety, ambiguity, conflict, and uncertainty that arise when established premises become available for reflection. There Read more...

Situational Indicators: Reading Organisational Culture Through Lived Experience

Why does organisational culture matter? Not to turn it into an abstract entity or a fuzzy property, but to recognise the sedimented choices and unwritten premises that directly shape how Read more...

We Have Answers to Questions We Never Asked

Part 1 of a series on narrative inquiry, organisational culture, and conversations for change. We have answers to questions that we’ve never asked ourselves. We have answers to questions that Read more...

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Luhmann and New Materialism in Practice

We are talking here about Luhmann and his social systems and how I see it apply to practice. I'm exploring the contributions of new materialism and will come back to Read more...

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A self-hostable platform for narrative inquiry work

TL;DR Real change in organisations starts with listening to multiple voices, not just the sponsor's story. Participatory Narrative Inquiry made it possible to arrive at a client engagement with richer Read more...

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There is no standing outside, ever, not even once

The idea that we can step outside and separate from experience is not restricted to Cartesianism. It also appears in claiming we can map the underlying conditions, constraints, and latent Read more...

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The Container is Borrowed

This reflection was triggered by Mark’s essay The Geometry of the Vanishing Container. Owen As many other participatory methods, Open Space has to be placed not only on the socio Read more...

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Tracing back: influences, communities, and lived experience

This is a tentative weave of the core experiences and influences in my work, inspired by colleagues. I hope my memory serves me well, but no promises. :) I landed Read more...

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On Distinctions and the Here-and-Now

This piece explores two premises and what they mean for my own practice. I am not against frameworks and thinking in systems, but I subordinate them to what unfolds in Read more...

How Language Shapes Organizational Reality: Insights from Maturana’s Theory

A Different Lens on Language and Organizations Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana, working with Francisco Varela, offered a compelling perspective on how language functions in human systems. Rather than viewing language Read more...