Building on Monica Sharma’s work, O’Brien and Sygna introduced the Three Spheres of Transformation—a fractal, integrated model of social change that acknowledges the complex interplay between three essential dimensions:

• Personal Sphere: Our inner world—beliefs, values, identity, and sense-making.
  
  

• Political Sphere: Culture, norms, power structures, and collective narratives.
  
  

• Practical Sphere: Concrete actions, innovations, and systemic interventions.
  
  

This framework highlights that true transformation emerges when change happens simultaneously across these spheres—shifting how we think and feel, how we relate culturally and politically, and how we act in the world.

For cultural creatives and changemakers, the model offers a powerful way to understand and expand our agency. It reminds us that focusing on any one sphere alone is insufficient; impact grows when personal insight, collective culture, and practical initiatives resonate together.

Quantum Social Change calls for continuous conscious, creative, collaborative, and courageous change—transforming not just systems but ourselves as part of those systems.

Links: 

• Helen O’Brien, You Matter More Than You Think

https://www.youmattermorethanyouthink.com/

• Monica Sharma’s work on social transformation

https://www.europarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/OBrien-and-Sygna_2013_Responding-to-climate-change-Three-spheres-of-transformation.pdf

• Resources on fractal and quantum approaches to social change

https://www.cchange.no/