Change, development, and growth are only possible if our perspectives have the capacity to shift. Our perspectives are the place we move out from and into the world. They predetermine for us our landscape of possibility by what they afford us to see, notice, determine, or what they close off for us as simply not possible. But our perspectives are not the world because they are limited and prevent us from seeing the whole.

Alistair calls these perspectives our frames. They are what we see the world through like a window, a picture, or painting they focus attention and in doing so remove most of what exists from consideration. Frames take the form of judgments, beliefs, opinions we hold about ourselves, others, and the world. Change only becomes possible by seeing what our frames are. We see what our frames are by engaging in different ways of looking at ourselves and at others and the world. If we only look through our frames we will only see what they allow us to see, so we must also look at them.

Once we understand this, we can identify our frames, evaluate them, and either keep, change, or build new ones as needed to continue to grow, develop, and flourish as individuals and communities.