Sublime

The first type of practice around conflict management helps people bring tensions to the surface.

Comme je le répète sans cesse, d’après la psychologie adlérienne, tous les problèmes sont des problèmes de relations interpersonnelles. Les relations interpersonnelles sont la source de nos peines. Et on peut dire l’inverse aussi : les relations interpersonnelles sont la source de notre bonheur.

Balance coaching starts by observing that there is a limiting perspective, and then naming it and exploring the impact of holding it.

Learning generates new resourcefulness, expanded possibilities, and stronger muscles for change.

In an organization with a high capacity to adapt, people share responsibility for the larger organization’s future in addition to their identification with specific roles and functions.

All the teachers I worked with—Myrna Lewis, Adam Kahane, LeAnne Grillo, Joseph Jaworski, Otto Scharmer, Matt Gelbwaks, Grady McGonagill, and many others—are phronimos, people of practical wisdom.

FIGURE 6 The Process Pathway

To maximize the chances of success, move the members of the group into peer consulting, where they begin systematically to consult to one another on the leadership headache they have just given each other.

David Emerald did just that after he studied Karpman’s work. He developed a kind of anti-triangle, which he called the “empowerment dynamic.”