Everyone who has children knows that period of life when their little one has only that word on their lips, which can sometimes lead to very embarrassing situations: “Why is the man in a wheelchair? Why doesn’t the lady have any hair?”

As we grow up, we ask others this question less often, but it keeps haunting us: “Why did he talk to me like that? Why do I feel bad?” The question of why grows more complex, sometimes taking on an existential turn. That is why, instinctively, when we do not feel well or when a problem arises — in our personal life as in our professional life — we always ask ourselves the question of why, with the idea that by identifying the causes of the problem, we will know how to solve it.

What if I told you that this basic assumption may not be entirely true, and that a much wider field of possibilities opens up if we manage to ask ourselves a different question?

For a few decades now, a certain kind of revolution has been under way in certain branches of psychology, with the idea that knowing the cause of problems is not necessarily what makes it possible to solve them. Many professionals and researchers are now interested in the process of change: in what allows people to shift their representations towards more functional, more soothing patterns — in other words, towards a happier life.

This is what we call the theory of change, and here is the programme of this presentation:

• The definition of change
• Level 1 change
• Level 2 change
• Higher level 2 change
• The magic question

I will let you discover this presentation — in French — in the video below.