I have been reflecting on why I collect and share these stories, as part of a paper I am working on for a journal, and as I was reviewing the first draft of the paper, I had a really useful insight – that the stories matter because they show us the shape of the emerging new paradigm.

If you study systems and how they change, you will probably know about the ‘two loops model’. It was developed by the Berkana Institute and it helps us to understand how systems change. In essence, the dominant system – our idea of how the world works – shapes our collective thinking, until it begins – like every natural system – to break down and eventually collapse.