By Lorena Rodríguez

Versión en Español

When I was introduced to the Systemic Thinking world, thanks to my teacher, Katia Del Rivero, and later on with my other teacher, Michael Blumenstein, something wonderful happened. Each of them contributed in a substantial way in my work as a coach.

My way of facilitating coaching sessions changed and suddenly something amazing happened. My perspective was transformed -like I had put on some 3D glasses- things that I didn’t see before started to pop out, I started joining dots that apparently had no relation and I asked questions that I wouldn’t have thought about before. Then this questions opened a world of possibilities for the coachee and from there, the session flowed with questions and answers like we were sailing a three-dimensional tic tac toe.

I learned to swim with complete confidence in an uncertainty sea. I had learned in other trainings that the client has all the answers, but from there to truly living it there’s a huge step.

As I listened to Michael over and over again, sometimes with scepticism, disbelief, anger, looking forward for having a structure, one day I decided to let myself go and from there on I learned to facilitate a session swimming in the uncertainty sea trusting completely that the best answer and solution would come from the coachee or the team. I stopped paying attention on the result and focused on the process, the answer will come out on its own sooner or later.

I learned from Michael the form for solving problems, and the creation of agreements based on enoughness and co-creation. When each part becomes responsible of his/her own contribution and what caused it, they look at themselves and at the rest with enoughness, they generate solutions thinking outside the box.

You, as a coach, only provide the form, the three-dimensional tic tac toe for those who are involved to play in and see the different connexions that they couldn’t see before, so they can go through new paths, explore the different floors and the stop competing about who’s right and start to feel responsible of the result of each move.

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