Triple loop learning explained

Triple loop learning is learning on three levels. In addition to the 'how' question (how can it be improved?) and the 'why' question (why did I do things the way I did? What was the intention?). In single loop learning, knowledge and behavior are expanded by input from the environment. More profound change also requires 'meta-learning', or double loop learning, in which the frame of reference for the knowledge itself is revised. That frame of reference consists of the presuppositions, assumptions and attitudes on which our thinking and construction are based. Through reflection we gain more insight into this frame of reference, which is usually only implicit, and we can step out of normal ways of thinking and become aware of our mental model. Triple loop learning means that reflection takes place on the level of action, the level of insights and the 'level of being'. This can lead to a change in doing, thinking or being but it doesn't h...