ABOUT EMERGENT CHANGE PROCESSES
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
—Muriel Strode, My Little Book of Prayer
Emergent change processes engage the diverse people of a system in focused yet open interactions that lead to unexpected and lasting shifts in perspective and behavior.
The roots of these processes grew out of three traditions: social psychology, psychoanalytic theory, and systems theory.1 Perhaps the earliest experiment that united these threads by involving people in changing their own systems occurred in 1960. Social scientists Fred Emery and Eric Trist ran what came to be called a “Search Conference” to support a difficult merger. The new company was British aircraft ...
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