Generative Containers: Designing for Transformative Moments

Building generative containers to catalyze social and organizational change is not a well-developed skill in most OD/Change practitioners. But container building is a necessary, nay vital skill to solve the complex adaptive challenges of today. To solve today’s most intractable challenges, it requires bringing together highly diverse people from across a system to share, to listen, to empathize, and to learn from one another to create a shared understanding of both the issues at hand and how best to resolve them; an understanding that later leads to shared intention and aligned actions. Generative containers are the mechanism by which we help diverse others solve their most intractable problems together.

Hence, in today’s episode, we discuss how to build generative containers as a means to solve our most intractable issues, challenges, or problems.

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• Creating the Conditions for Transformative Change to Occur

• Universal Change Framework: 4 Key Shifts for Social Change

• 3 Must-Have Skills for Organization Development Pros

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