Ongoing

Sensemaking is an ongoing process. According to Weick (1995, p. 43):

Sensemaking never starts.  The reason it never starts is that pure duration never stops.  People are always in the middle of things, which become things, only when those same people focus on the past from some point beyond it. Flows are the constants of sensemaking, something that open systems theorists such as Katz and Kahn (1966) taught us, but which we have since forgotten (Ashmos & Huber, 1987).To understand sensemaking is to be sensitive to the ways in which people chop moments out of continuous flows and extract cues from those moments. There is widespread recognition that people are always in the middle of things.  What is less well developed are the implications of that insight for sensemaking.