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CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS If your agenda is designed to change the current situation of your issue of concern, it has to challenge some of the current assumptions that are guiding today’s ruling rationales. In order to assess whether your dreams, policies or practices have transformational potential, your must check whether they are challenging any current assumptions. Otherwise, your agenda could unintentionally reinforce the status quo. Because of this, you may want to identify the current assumptions that your agenda should challenge at the very beginning of your reflection. On the other hand, those challenges sometimes are not easy to identify, and require an exercise of critical thinking after a more brainstorming and creative thinking process. In either case, it is necessary to make those current assumptions explicit, for they are ultimately at the core of political debates and communication processes. 22