The Human Experience of Becoming
Change is more than something that happens to us. It is something we live.
Living Human Change Defined
Living Human Change is the lifelong human experience of becoming—how we live, recognize, and participate in change from within our own lives.
Some changes can be named and reported: a beginning, an ending, a decision, a loss, a new role, a new technology, a reorganization, a relationship changed, a milestone reached.
But the reported event is never the whole of human change.
We are also living what happens within and among us as life unfolds—remembering, interpreting, questioning, relating, adapting, imagining, hoping, grieving, participating, and becoming.
Living Human Change attends to both what has changed and what it means to be a human being living within change.
It is present in individuals, relationships, families, organizations, communities, and across the course of a human life.
We do not stand outside becoming and manage it from a distance.
We are already within it.
The Field of Becoming
Living Human Change does not happen in isolation.
We live within a continually changing field of people, relationships, places, memories, circumstances, institutions, possibilities, and time.
We affect that field, and the field affects us.
Some movement begins with us. Some reaches us through other people or circumstances. Some has been unfolding long before we recognize it. And some of what is becoming is not yet visible.
This is the Field of Becoming.
It includes what has been, what is present now, and what is not yet.
We bring our histories into it. We encounter other people living their own histories within it.
Organizations and communities participate in it. Events alter it. Relationships reshape what becomes possible within it.
And because we are living human beings, we do not merely observe this field.
We participate from within it.
Sometimes intentionally.
Sometimes reluctantly.
Sometimes without yet recognizing that we are participating at all.
Human becoming is not a staircase.
There is no single sequence by which a human life, relationship, organization, or community moves from what it was to what it will become.
The field moves.
We move.
Others move.
And sometimes what becomes possible changes before we do.
Living Human Change is lived within this field—not outside it.
Hope Within Becoming
If becoming is unfinished, we cannot know completely what comes next.
We live with memory of what has been, awareness of what is now, and imagination of what is not yet.
Between the recognizable present and the not-yet, there is uncertainty.
There is also possibility.
Hope is an orientation within that possibility.
Hope does not require us to deny loss, difficulty, disappointment, or circumstances we would not have chosen.
It does not promise that everything will turn out as we wish.
Hope allows us to remain in relationship with a future that is not yet fully determined.
Hope orients us. Participation is how we live within becoming.
Participation may mean acting.
It may mean waiting.
It may mean listening, deciding, questioning, remaining, releasing, repairing, or recognizing that something is not ours to carry.
And sometimes the field moves before we do.
Not all movement requires our movement.
Hope does not tell us exactly what will become.
It helps us remain available to the possibility that what is recognizable now is not necessarily the final recognizable form.
The exploration of hope, participation, and human becoming gave rise to the Hope²Change series and became part of the foundation from which Living Human Change emerged.
Living Human Change at Work
Living Human Change does not stop when we enter an organization.
Organizations can report change—a new strategy, restructuring, leadership transition, technology implementation, workforce decision, merger, or new way of working.
But the people within the organization are simultaneously living change.
They are interpreting what is happening from different positions. They may see different parts of the same organizational reality. What has moved forward on an organizational chart, implementation plan, or leadership agenda may not be moving in the same way humanly.
This distinction between Reported Event Change and Living Human Change creates an important question:
What is happening to and among the human beings while the reported change is happening?
Sometimes an organization needs to continue moving forward.
Sometimes it may benefit from another kind of movement first.
Collective Intelligence Lock Point
A Lock Point is a professionally facilitated, 90-minute dialogue around one consequential organizational or team question.
For a short period, ordinary forward pressure is suspended so that conversation can move differently—toward greater context or greater particularity—before the organization returns to its work.
One Consequential Question. One Shared Dialogue. 90 Minutes.
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