ABSTRACT
The concept of double awareness draws on the organizational consultant and psychoanalyst Harold Bridger's concept of the ‘double task'. A double task refers to two tracks that co-exist in any organizational process: one is the track that is focused on the immediate task at hand, and the other is the one the author describe as the process track. Dealing with the double task means addressing both task 1 and task 2. In this chapter the author describes the two contexts where her research took place, where she experiences a heightened awareness of the double task and where essential questions about the gap between insight and action – sensing and doing – become increasingly prominent, figure rather than ground. The two contexts represent two well-founded approaches to learning that, each in their way, seek to reduce the distance between insight and action.
