Our Craft Continued...

We learn and intervene by connecting deeply to the client’s perceptions, the system they have co-created with others and the individual people within the system.   Our craft demands that we give evidence of wisdom in action through sharing our experience and enacting our values in all that we do while simultaneously using our knowledge of both specific relevant content and skills that allow us to have a clear and unobstructed view of the client situation. 

The craft also requires that we are able to effectively structure both ourselves and our engagement with clients in active, purposeful, and emergent way that facilitate transformative interventions drawn from our skillful synthesis. Resulting in insight and clear modeling of how to enact helpful changes.

We strive to join with our clients but not to merge with them, the system, or the individuals.  We consistently invite our clients to challenge their perceptions but do not appropriate their action to change them.  When we are successful, we help our clients understand how their perceptions of reality and their choices based on these perceptions impact their ability to facilitate change.   So, it is important that we strive to take the value judgments made by clients as representations of their perceptions while ensuring that we do not impose our own value judgments in doing so.