ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the potential of structuring empirical material, for consultancy–research purposes by imagining links between feeling, meaning, and action and their contexts in the form of characteristic fight or flight loops in the face of anxiety and complexity. It also shows different levels and stages of strategy in the face of strange loops. It is not assumed that once a strange loop is identified, it is necessary to change behaviour. However, the development of consciousness that grows from connecting patterns of feeling, meaning, and action to contextual stories in this way will have its own undetermined consequences. Characteristic forms of loop are offered as typical patterns within organizational life. Christine Oliver, M. Herasymowych, and H. Senko propose the charmed loop as representative of a circular process of feeling, meaning, and action, incorporating reflexivity and enabling learning.
