Learning about SPoR

This is a conversation between three people sitting in very different parts of the world, coming from very different paths in life, but who happened to meet on a learning journey through SPoR. The conversation started from no agenda other than to meet, which is the most foundational principle for learning with each other. And then the conversation started to shape itself from open-ended questions. What makes it difficult to bring SPoR into organisations?
Most of us who’ve been treading professional life for more than a few years, have experienced the teaching and the learning of skills and have come to master technics and methods. But as much as we may have learned through that journey, very few have ever stepped away from the original methodology on which they were initially trained. No matter how many different tools and methods they’ve come to dominate and apply, at their core, they remain grounded on methodology that their original training provided them with. In the essential worldview and the in the way they ask questions about the world, they remain engineers, architects, historians, anthropologists, or whatever that initial training may have been.
The difficult challenge comes from shifting you methodology. And learning about SPoR very often demands a painful and lengthy journey, throughout which you have to break the mould, shatter deeply rooted beliefs, and embrace the uncertainty of what may lie ahead. This is what it takes to learn a different methodology.
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