Coordinating Dreamer, Realist and Critic The Dreamer is necessary to form new ideas and goals. The Realist is required in order to transform ideas into concrete expressions. The Critic is crucial in order to evaluate, filter and refine the steps into something that is both effective and ecological.

This “formal” representation of an intention for Generative Change has three key conditions. It needs to include the following three modalities: 1. Verbal statement (positive, succinct, resonant) 2. Visual image (color, literal or symbolic) 3. Somatic model (posture, gesture and movement)

The poet Rumi had a beautiful saying. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

We like to say that the intention should be “shimmering.” That means that it has a definite shape but not a rigid and fixed form. We are always looking for that balance that gives us the possibility for “disciplined flow.”

“What I really want to create is . .

Generativity is creativity in which you are making something completely new that has not existed before; i.e., “stepping out onto new ground” and where “your destination is not yet clear” as the poem describes.

Third generation change work: Generative Coaching (i.e., creating novel outcomes, deep change, transformational) – Emergent; traditional coaching PLUS engaging the creative consciousness; generative internal states; transforming problems into resources; oriented to creative consciousness in both inner and outer worlds, creating realities “beyond

change practitioners – coaches, consultants, therapists

And so it brings up the question, “What is it that we want to create?”