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As we mentioned just before we described these six initiatives, the order is not pre-determined. As letters on a keyboard, they can be ‘typed’ in many different configurations to create different ‘words.’ Here are some examples. We could begin with a curiosity that we have been having and then move directly to find some partners to engage with discussions. Those discussions could reform our curiosity which could lead to some efforts to try out some practices and pay attention to how they impact our clients and ourselves. This could lead to some information gathering and then trying to put some new conceptualizations or ‘spins’ on what we are attempting. As you can see, these initiatives all engage our work in different ways, leading us to new pathways. There is no need to follow the initiatives in a linear way.

Another example could start with the ‘reflection-in-action’ activity. We could pay attention to how our work is going, notice some things that then spawn into a desire to ‘make sense’ differently about what we are doing or what is happening. This could then move back into more ‘reflection-in-action’ that could lead to new efforts at sense-making. In this example, only two of the initiatives predominate.

From these two examples, it seems clear to us that these initiatives could seem very familiar to most of us. They are ways of describing everyday activities of living and acting in our worlds. They are human actions that help us make distinctions in our world, provide some pathways we could take, and give us confidence and hope that our worlds could be different. They operationalize living in the world with a certain level of intentionality. They do not produce ultimate answers; they provide direction and optimism that we can make a difference.