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What is Wu Wei Coaching?TRANSCRIPT
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Wu Wei CoachingAri-Pekka Skarp 12.11.2012, LESS2012fractalsauna.wordpress.comTwitter: apskarp
Wu Wei Coaching“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” - Bruce Lee
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Origins of Wu Wei Coaching
Complex responsive processesNo autonomous individuals, no organization
Co-operative local interactions, emergent patterns
Post-modern frameworks Social constructionism - discursive, contextual
Solution Focus, Dialogism, Reflexivity, Narrativism
Wu Wei ≈ “without action”Aligning Tao (“natural order”) and te (“force”)
Spontaneous movement in accord with the complex patterns of nature
Applying practical judgment in particular situations - reflexivity in action
Yi Quan, Tuishou (“pushing hands”), Mindfulness
Being very sensitive of the movements in a situation
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The Coach and the Client
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Identity is forming in the dialogue
Change is already happening
Courage
Client is the expert of his situation
Improvisation instead of tools and techniques
Client already has all the needed strengths
Way of least resistance
Context and discourse
Work with the dialogue in the “here and now”
How to map Wu Wei?
(outside observer)
Reflectivity
In-actio
n
Reflexivity(subject =
object)
On-actio
n
(process of what is happening)
Doing
Client centered
Being(experience of
what is happening)
Case centered
ReflexivityNarrativism
Solution Focus
Dialogism
Cognitive coaching
Process consultancy
NLP Agile coaching
Family therapy
ReflexivityNarrativism
Solution Focus
Dialogism
Cognitive coaching
Process consultancy
NLPAgile coaching
Family therapy
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Tools and Techniques
Reflection
Wu Wei and Reflexivity
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Data Data
Data
Meaning? How?
Feedback loops
Reflexivity
1st order reflexivity
2nd order reflexivity
Mechanistic
Complex
Systemic
1st order cybernetics
2nd order cybernetics
1st order cybernetics
2nd order cybernetics
Thinking styles:
Wu Wei and Dialogism
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Dialogue is like a cocktail: 3 parts of listening, 1 part of talking
1. What the other person is saying?
2. What you are saying?
3. What is happening
in your inner dialogue?
Three ways of seeing organizations
Mechanistic
Systemic
Complex
https://fractalsauna.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/three-ways-of-seeing-organizations/
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Wu Wei and Thinking Styles
Ad hoc
ProcessConsultan
cy
Complex responsiveprocesses
Agile
Lean
Beyond Budgeti
ng
Cognitive
coaching
Solution
Focus
Narrativism
Agile coaching
Scientific managemen
t
Coaching methodologies: Organizational Development methodologies:
Radical Managem
ent
Reflexivity
Family therap
y
Cynefin
Systems
Thinking
Dialogism
NLP
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(c) Ari-Pekka Skarp 2012 - fractalsauna.wordpress.com
But…
You can’t really find Wu Wei Coaching from any of these slides…
Because these are just abstractions.
You are interpreting them…
And perhaps even reflecting on your interpretations.
If you can do that – you are able to use some of these principles like 2nd order reflexivity,
That’s where you might find the real Wu Wei Coaching.
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.”
(c) Ari-Pekka Skarp 2012 - fractalsauna.wordpress.com