Dissolution and Imaginal cells

Lately, I’ve been living through a period of dissolution, a loss of form that, while disorienting, has been quietly reorganising something deeper. As I’ve moved through this personally, I’ve begun to notice similar patterns unfolding collectively: old frameworks dissolving, familiar structures no longer holding, and a growing sense that the ways we’ve operated no longer match the realities we face.

In moments like this, the temptation is often to regain control to optimise, perform, or double down on what once worked. But I’m beginning to sense that this moment is asking something different of us. Not better strategies, but different ways of being. Not more certainty, but a greater capacity to stay present as the game itself keeps changing.

I’ve written more fully about this, about dissolution, imaginal cells, leadership, and what it means to become different rather than just do different in a longer piece on Substack.

→ Read the full essay on Substack: Dissolution and Imaginal Cells — On staying present as the game keeps changing