In her new book, Indirect Work, Carol Sanford challenges everything you have learned about how change happens and offers a thorough, refreshing alternative that will make a lasting impact. Sanford’s framework is hinged on the idea of regenerative change, which she describes as bringing together indigenous philosophies, wisdom teachings, and quantum cosmologies to find a new way to think about personal, social, and organizational change. Her concept of indirect work is one of four components of the overall framework but, according to Sanford, the instrument by which her theory of change is brought about in the real world. She asserts that, in order for regenerative change to occur, we must develop capacity for people to be self-directed and self-developing rather than inspiring them, incentivizing, controlling, or instructing them. In this way, Indirect Work see life as a matrix where we cannot control the outcomes of our interventions because of the hidden variables that determine human behaviors and outcomes. From this central foundation, Sanford goes on to provide a Systemic Approach for bringing about this kind of change in any settings and contexts, with a triad of developing capability, culture and consciousness and illustrating their role in her framework.