The Fractured Lens | Meaning, Belonging, Unknowing & Dynamics
Sensemaking, not solutions

Organisations aren't machines. Stop treating them like one.

The Fractured Lens is a way of seeing the forces that shape how organisations actually work. Not how they're supposed to. Not how the slides say. How they actually work.

Explore the framework
Dynamics Unknowing Meaning Belonging

Most frameworks simplify reality into steps, models, and digestible slides. The Fractured Lens does the opposite. It embraces the fractured, shifting nature of human systems and asks: what are you not seeing?

Four forces.
Always moving.

Not a step-by-step guide. Not a model. Four interconnected currents that shape every decision, culture, and way of being in your organisation.

D 01 - Force

Dynamics

The forces that shape who gets to define reality, how authority is established, and how systems evolve. Power is never static. Change is rarely linear.

Where is power flowing in your organisation right now? Who benefits from things staying the same?

U 02 - Force

Unknowing

The acceptance that what we believe to be true is always provisional, shaped by context, power, and history. Unknowing is not ignorance. It is recognising the limits of certainty.

What are you certain about that you have never actually tested?

M 03 - Force

Meaning

The stories, symbols, and narratives that help us make sense of the world. Meaning is never neutral. It is shaped, contested, and rewritten over time.

Whose story is being told in your organisation? Whose has been edited out?

B 04 - Force

Belonging

The deep human need to be part of something greater than ourselves. Belonging is not just about connection. It is about identity, inclusion, and exclusion.

Who belongs here? And what did they have to give up to fit in?

Standing on the shoulders of
Foucault· Jung· Bateson· Berger & Luckmann· Schein· Gergen· Shotter· Heidegger· Maturana· Weick· Foucault· Jung· Bateson· Berger & Luckmann· Schein· Gergen· Shotter· Heidegger· Maturana· Weick·
Complexity Theory· Social Constructionism· Depth Psychology· Systems Thinking· Critical Theory· Phenomenology· Organisational Culture· Sensemaking· Complexity Theory· Social Constructionism· Depth Psychology· Systems Thinking· Critical Theory· Phenomenology· Organisational Culture· Sensemaking·

What if the real challenge isn't finding certainty, but learning to navigate without it?

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Certainty is a myth. Clarity is contextual. Knowledge is always unfinished.