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

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.

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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