Summary
The Petal Model pictures a change of system as a flower. The dominant system sits on the outer petals, ebbing; evolving practice sits in the middle ring; alternatives now being built sit at the centre. It comes from Onion Collective, a social enterprise in Somerset, and was set out by Jessica Prendergrast in an essay from research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Other models of transition, she complains, cast radicals as outliers trying to break in. This one puts the alternative future “in the centre of the action rather than the outskirts of possibility”. The rings overlap because “the new lives alongside the old even as it envelops it”.
Rationale
Its overlapping petals picture something Part 1 expects: many of us “living with multiple” dispositions, moving between those we were born into and those we aspire to. Prendergrast’s practitioners straddle old and new likewise.
Source: medium.com