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What are they?
To make sense of what has happened, we tell stories. These stories give shape to how things start, and how they end, and how change happens.
Why are they important?
These stories are how we come to understand and believe in how change was or was not possible, and they shape what we learn about our work for change in the present and the future. If we are not open to telling stories in new ways, then we risk repeating what has happened before.
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Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.
Yuval Noah Harari
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Where to start
- What is the difference between a complicated and a complex system, and why is it important?
- What stories of positive tipping points in the past can we learn from?
- How can we prepare to start thinking differently about changing systems? How can we explore what a tipping point might feel like?
- How can I pull these tools together into a plan of action?
- Where can I find example stories of Positive Tipping Points?
- How does your relationship with your goal change when it is put on different parts of the tipping points curve?
Questions to go deeper
- How can we map the story of a system?
- How do simple rules among many actors lead to complex, often unpredictable patterns? What makes a system tip from order, through chaos, to another state of order?
- How can we tell different stories about change that embrace non-linearity?
- How can the Three Horizons Framework be applied to tipping points? How can we think about cycles of time to inform our work for transformational change?