This term paper is aimed at analyzing the concept of sensemaking as it applies to various strata of human involvement. It seeks to analyze how individuals make sense of circumstances and experiences which shapens their identity of self, and how it extends to interpersonal and organizational relationships. The act of sensemaking is also analyzed at the level of organizational learning processes of exploration and exploitation and further viewed in terms of inter-organizational identity using the concept of institutional theory. The concept of narrative and scientific knowledge and a reflection on how both kinds of knowledge may be interpreted and transmitted in a way that both practitioners and theoreticians can effectively make sense of is
