Summary
The Two Loops model is a picture of how one system gives way to another: while a dominant system declines, a new one is already emerging at its edges. Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze developed it at the Berkana Institute, a US non-profit active since 1991.
Its use is in locating yourself. The land restoration organisation Commonland reads three roles from it: pioneers trying alternatives at the fringes, protectors sheltering them from inside the old system, and hospice workers helping the old decline gracefully. Wheatley’s summary: the world “changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.”
Rationale
Two Loops describes systems, not dispositions, but its in-between is familiar. Part 1 expects many of us to spend time “living with multiple ones”: the dispositions we were born into and those we aspire to.
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