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Provoking change: the 9 premises of change
We all have moments in life when we would like a change to happen. A change for ourselves, for someone else, or with regard to a situation. But how do you bring about a change? What are the characteristics of change?
“Change is a process that involves the perceptible and significant passage from one state to another, non-identical one.”
These are the questions we are going to look into here, by talking about the theory of change — and more specifically about the nine premises of change, as Yara Doumit Naufal presents them in her work on change.
The nine premises are to be discovered in the video below — in French.
How to cite this article
Besse, J. (2021, November 14). Provoking change: the 9 premises of change. Complexe Systémique. https://app.complexe-systemique.com/en_GB/articles/provoking-change-the-9-premises-of-change
To go further
- Theory of change: the 3 levels of changeWhy knowing the cause of a problem is not always enough to solve it.
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