Wayshaping - A Multiscale Framework for Behavior Change

Summary

Six researchers, Cynefin’s Dave Snowden among them, bring embodied cognitive science to why we don’t do what we intend. Each of us is a ‘self-collective’ of habits, identities and bodily rhythms, tied into the norms of groups and institutions, so change means realigning across levels with scaffolds and shocks. Wayshaping “is not about dictating and enforcing a path forward”.

Rationale

Its aim, bringing intention to habits we all shape “whether consciously or not”, is the one we hold out to existing practices: to notice what they’re already cultivating.