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ESLA Loops is an approach to using evidence to inform learning and action on complex challenges

We design and facilitate processes which enable organizations to ‘make sense’ of their own evidence, leveraging collective experience and insight

What

Integrating practical tools for robust evidence with collaborative sense-making processes and platforms, ESLA Loops is an innovative and empowering approach which enables organizations to build sustainable and adaptive cultures of learning about complex challenges.

How

What is sense-making?

The capacity to make sense of the world so you can act in it.

Sense-making is ongoing, so individuals and teams simultaneously shape their choices and act in the situations they face.

People do this naturally. Organizations can develop the capacity to collaboratively sense-make.

Why is evidence-based collaborative sense-making important?

Complex challenges require organizations to develop new approaches which integrate evidence & experience to better understand how change happens.

By subjecting evidence of change to scrutiny in groups, interpretations are debated & challenged, generating more useful insights and actions. When systems conditions & signals (meaningful change) are analyzed collectively by those who hold deep experience & insight, action is collectively owned.

How is ESLA Loops different, innovative
& useful?

ESLA Loops co-designs, integrates and facilitates evidence-based collaborative sense-making approaches – tools, processes & platforms – into an organization’s strategy, evidence and learning systems.

Our aim is to leverage your own deep experience and insights, creating the capacity and culture for more effective action.

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How can we help?

System co-design and facilitation

Co-designing your project, initiative or organization’s evidence, sense-making and learning system around ESLA Loops

Training and practice building

Building an ESLA Loops culture, capacity and practice within and across your team & organisation

Field building

Promoting the wider understanding and uptake of ESLA Loops approaches to complex challenges through collective intelligence

Questions?
Feel free to contact us anytime.

Learn more

Conceptual foundations

ESLA Loops underpinned by complexity, systems-thinking & collaborative sense-making.

Practical tools for robust evidence

ESLA Loops in measurement frameworks – rubrics for systems signals

ESLA Loops in evaluation – Outcome Harvesting & methodological bricolage

Building sustainable institutional capacity

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