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Causal Layered Analysis - like 5 Whys, but also more specific than that - it's an attempt to get at the deep stories that we walk around the world with and don't realise. I look at how Causal Layered Analysis might be use for adaptation and advocacy. medium.com/open-source-fu…

The quick intro to causal layered analysis (CLA) - has got four layers:
- litany
- causes and structures
- worldviews
- metaphors

Litany is the world as it is today. The issues, concerns, the complaints. The surface issues.

Causes and Structures is where we use the "usual tools" to study the concerns. The econometrics, the one-level-up explanations that most of use day to day. #causallayeredanalysis

Worldviews - we now get to the abstract ideas - the assumptions and framings that stand behind the tools of analysis. Usually non-personal.
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Myths and metaphors get at the deep stories, almost subconscious, emotional aspects of some fundamental truths of how people think the world is organised. Once you get there, people will tend to say one-liners and they can't elaborate anymore - in facilitation settings.

You can use CLA in a few ways. As adaptation, responding to the revealed layers; or as advocacy, trying to change and shift to a new paradigm. Caution: you need bridges.
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