For Therapists, Facilitators, Coaches, & Guides

Works in the Centre

Learning in real time with a client session

Learn ways of orienting to the unpredictable nature of the human experience, align with the change that is trying to happen, leave with a clearer sense of how what’s arising moment-by-moment can guide you.

Over time when we are steeped in any kind of practice we can easily become distanced from what we know and the sensing that informs our actions. To stay alive and attuned to the moment asks us to continually find new ways of engaging, to notice where our edges are so we can keep deepening or evolving our practice.

When we are starting a new practice of working with others we may question how we can engage most effectively. We may wonder what it actually looks and feels like to work with someone’s process, to track and follow what is arising while holding a sense of the larger arc of their becoming. This two-hour observational learning lab where you’ll develop the ability to navigate real client sessions when no framework or modality provides the answer.

What this is

Works in the Centre is a two-hour co-learning session where you observe a real piece of work with a volunteer participant. Afterward, we carefully unpack the session, exploring questions like:

What was closer to and further from identity?
What edges arose and how did we notice them?
How do you recognize a pattern while it is still forming?
What happened unintentionally and at the periphery that influenced the direction of the work?

What you will learn to notice

Together we will pull back the curtains and explore what transpired in the client session. This is when we put our thinking on the table and have the opportunity to get closer to our practice.

We explore questions like why did the work go one way and not another? What led you to focus on one gesture? The intention is to surface more information and learn to navigate the dynamic space between identity, emerging possibilities and the unknown.

We then debrief the structure of the work to hone or pattern awareness and identify the adaptive scaffolding we can orient to and follow in any situation. After that we have time for questions and insights from the group.

Overview of our time together

Inner work - Time to reflect, connect with your experience and stabilise our attention
Demo - Elsa works with someone in the “centre”
Debrief of the process - This is when we break down the flow to explore what was happening. Elsa shares her thinking and sensemaking and we explore the clients signals and different directions that could have been taken.
Discussion of themes that emerged - Together we explore themes and patterns that arose.
Closing

As with supervision, the sessions will honour confidentiality, and the appropriate practices will always be in place. Groups are limited to 10 participants.