Four Phases in Transitions

Characteristics

Wim Grommen:

"In general transitions can be seen to go through the S curve and we can distinguish four phases:

 a pre-development phase of a dynamic balance in which the present status does not visibly change

 a take-off phase in which the process of change starts because of changes in the system

 an acceleration phase in which visible structural changes take place through an accumulation of socio-cultural, economical, ecological and institutional changes influencing each other; in this phase we see collective learning processes, diffusion and processes of embedding

 a stabilization phase in which the speed of sociological change slows down and a new dynamic balance is achieved through learning."

(http://basisinkomen.nl/wp-content/uploads/The-present-crisis-a-pattern-paper.pdf)