“Drawing on our interviews with practitioners and the original creators of the frameworks, we asked: what other elements would we make more explicit in some important systems change frameworks? Taking the Three Horizons, the Berkana Two Loops, and Deep Transitions, we considered the conditions and capacities that might be layered on, amplified, or made more explicit. We recognised a shared quality of directionality — each framework has movement and change embedded in its logic. This sense of becoming is an important prerequisite for the new to emerge, and invites a new set of verbs: in moving from one horizon, loop, or transition to another, what do we need to be more explicitly enacting or paying greater attention to?
In answer, we propose a key of 13 elements, each describing a capacity or condition required for deep systems transformation.
They hold both an inner and outer call to action — capacities wealth stewards and decisions makers need to cultivate in their own work, and capacities they should be looking to fund in the field. Practicing these is an invitation to live into the work, and to grow new facilities for sensing the Third Horizon.”
