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Frameworks

Learning from frameworks for creating sustainability and change

John Brooker & Cathy Macharis Synopsis Cathy Macharis and John Brooker co-hosted an open space session at the Unconference titled “Frameworks for creating sustainability and change - what can we learn.” The session was a collaborative effort to explore how Solution-Focused (SF) practices could enhance sustainability frameworks within organisations. While they had originally planned separate sessions, Cathy and John combined their sessions, reviewing the two frameworks together to see what they and the attendees could learn. Cathy introduced the Factor 8 change process, which she developed based on the ‘iceberg’ model. It is based on ‘8As’ Awareness, Avoidance, Act and Shift, Anticipation, Acceleration, Actor involvement, Alteration and All in love! She was curious to establish how to integrate SF techniques into this framework.