Wu wei coaching

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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


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

Flow in the movement (c) Ari-Pekka Skarp 2012 - fractalsauna.wordpress.com

The Coach and the Client


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


Tools and Techniques

Reflection

Wu Wei and Reflexivity


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


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/


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



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.”


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