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We must admit, this is probably our favorite part – this is where the picture of what we are doing (or going to do) really starts to take visible shape. We have loads of information and usually new information continues to stream into our thinking. Now we need to do something with it to bring the informational pieces together into something that the individual bits cannot provide – something that will lead to and make action sensible and worthwhile. This is where we start to assemble the various ‘pieces’ to form a picture – a matter of ‘engaged unfolding’ (McNamee and Hosking, 2012, p. 45). From our social constructionist ways of understanding, the pieces we are bringing together are not revealing a picture that was always there – the sizes and shapes of the pieces work together to create a coherent picture that was not pre-ordained (Gergen, 2015). The various elements we have chosen to bring together can be assembled in a number of different ways, each embracing a sort of coherence of its own. We shape our understandings.

We like to challenge ourselves to step outside of the expected, the known, the usual, or our ‘comfort zone’ in order to gain some freshness or newness to our thinking. We ask ourselves the following questions of the information we have collected:

 What are we coming to know that was not visible before?

 How are our actions aligning with what is already known and accepted?

 What possibilities arise from imagining alternative ideas to the status quo? What limitations do they present?

 What surprising ideas have we been starting to notice?

 What are some of our assumptions or understandings that are getting in the way of seeing things differently?

The questions above fit all manner of choices and decisions. Making sense of the information will be idiosyncratic to each decision-maker – the ‘facts’ may be organized in very different ways by different people.