Gary Chapman, long-time marriage counselor and author of The Five Love Languages, created the “love languages” model when he realized that romantic partners were expressing love in ways that were unnoticeable or unintuitive to the other.

The “change languages” model offers a similar solution for addressing this same dynamic of miscommunication, but as it shows up in the relational, layered, and systemic work of change.

A ‘MULTILINGUAL’ SOLUTION TO CHALLENGES WITH CHANGE

Over the course of a year, I served as a member of a nonprofit’s strategic planning committee whose meetings were not unlike what I imagine some of Gary Chapman’s marriage counseling sessions to be: confusing and dizzying at best, tense and threatening at worst.

At first glance, this friction made no sense: outside of m

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