Really enjoyed reading this - it reminded me of a time when I worked for a leadership consultancy and one of the senior practitioners used to judge clients for not being able to ‘go deep’ even though it might be that clients first experience of personal or group transformation work by working with us. They had a penchant for deep work and forgot sometimes that for some people this is new and on the edge of comfort zones. I like to think of this of our work as a buffet, people take what they are willing to try and able to digest and if we’ve created the right conditions for safety they can come back and refill their plates anytime! :)
Thanks for your thoughtful perspectives, Carla. I couldn’t agree more and am guilty myself of chasing “depth” as the only way, when I was much younger in my practice. It was years of sitting seeing what of our own is playing out beneath this pre-occupation that I found some precious insights which really spoke to the centrality of being a non-judgemental and neutral container in this work
Really enjoyed reading this - it reminded me of a time when I worked for a leadership consultancy and one of the senior practitioners used to judge clients for not being able to ‘go deep’ even though it might be that clients first experience of personal or group transformation work by working with us. They had a penchant for deep work and forgot sometimes that for some people this is new and on the edge of comfort zones. I like to think of this of our work as a buffet, people take what they are willing to try and able to digest and if we’ve created the right conditions for safety they can come back and refill their plates anytime! :)
Thanks for your thoughtful perspectives, Carla. I couldn’t agree more and am guilty myself of chasing “depth” as the only way, when I was much younger in my practice. It was years of sitting seeing what of our own is playing out beneath this pre-occupation that I found some precious insights which really spoke to the centrality of being a non-judgemental and neutral container in this work