WAYFINDING:
Engaging the Texture of the Moment
Dates:
Thursdays: August 13th, 20th, and 27th, 3:00-5:00 pm PDT
Fridays: August 14th, 21st, and 28th, 8:00-10:00 am AEST
This three-part course is designed for therapists, coaches, guides and leaders who are: moving through a transition, accompanying others through one, in a space between one phase in another, or working within systems that are changing.
Each session creates conditions for participants to learn about key dimensions of wayfinding. There will be time to reflect on how these arise in their own context, to practice attending to the micro-processes of their own orienting, the felt sense they bring to situations, and the small responsive actions through which a way forward becomes discernible.
In our work, in the systems we’re engaging within and what’s being asked of us, something is shifting.
We are living and working in conditions that are asking more of us than many of our usual frameworks can meet. We find ourselves in a transition, encountering something that falls outside our known frames of reference, or facing some form of uncertainty.
At moments like these we may notice ourselves looking outward for answers, reaching for frameworks or insights from others.
Yet as we reach we can lose touch with one of the most vital sources of input:
the felt meanings and environmental cues that are available through the synergy of our lived experience, the nuance of the present moment and the larger constraints in which we’re engaging.
Being able to move effectively in the space between what we know, what’s emerging and what’s appropriate for that given context, is the essence of wayfinding.
Wayfinding is the practice of moving into the unknown, drawing upon our lived experience, the practices we've inherited and iterating our capabilities as we adapt to meet what's arising.
It asks us to engage relationally, focusing our attention beyond things to consider the spaces and feedback loops between ourselves, other people, the environments and larger fields in which we are situated.
It is a capacity that practitioners develop over years of responding to a variety of experiences, often without having language or recognition they’re doing so. It is a sensibility and know-how that, with awareness and reflection, can be cultivated and deepened.
The course unfolds across three sessions:
Seeing - Orienting to your situation and discerning what's actually present, so you can sense possible next steps.
Shaping - understanding how to shape the context you’re working within to bring more of your capabilities to the role and feel more deeply met in the process.
Enacting - Responding at the appropriate moment, focusing your attention to be most effective, and adapting as the situation evolves.
What Becomes Possible:
A clearer sense of how we actually find our way and the capabilities we draw upon to do so that may have remained hidden till now.
Ways of attending to the moments when the usual modes of making sense stop working.
Language for experiences that have often been difficult to name: the felt sense of a situation, the cues we notice in the lead up to our next steps becoming clear.
Greater trust in our own direct experience as a source of orientation in conditions of uncertainty.
A framework for the three movements of wayfinding that can be used in our own practice and with the people we work with.
Course Dates:
Thursdays: August 13th, 20th, and 27th, 3:00-5:00 pm PDT
Fridays: August 14th, 21st, and 27th, 8:00-10:00 am AEST
Reserve Your Spot Today
(Early registration discount available till June 15th)
A three session course in developing the capability to meet what's arising in uncertainty, change and transitions.
