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Coaching from aSystems Perspective

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12/9 Session agenda

•CSP Course Overview

•Butterfly Model

•Interactive exercise

•Introductions

•Questions/discussion

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Creating a Learning Community

Purpose and Outcomes• For course participants to better understand and improve their capacity

to coach from a systems perspective• To offer the course as a rallying point to come together as a global

network of SoL coaches

At the end of this course participants will:• Understand systems frameworks, concepts and tools and apply them

effectively in coaching• Engage in and learn about

• Their personal experience as a complex human system (our selves and our story)

• Their ability to coach a system (client with a systemic story) within a system (their organization/situation)

• Continue to develop and deepen a systemic stance in our work and lives

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SoL Coaching Model

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Program Flow

Post Program: Learning Circles in three phone meetings, coaching practice, written cases.

Day One Day Two Day Three

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7:30-8 am Arrival 8:30 AM-12:45 PM 8:30-10:15 Creating a Learning Community & Learning Circle 1 10:15-10:40 Break/ Stretch 10:40-12:10 Butterfly Model 12:10–12:40 Debrief

7:30-8:00 am Arrival 8:30 AM-12:15 PM 8:30-8:50 Meditation/Check-in Opening for the day 8:50-10:50 Emergent Learning Map 10:50-10:55 Debrief/Break/ Stretch (Ram-Om-Hu) 10:55-12:30 River of Life Reflection /Learning Circle 2

7:30-8:00 a.m. Arrival 8:30 AM-12:15 PM 8:30-9:35 Opening for the day (Meditation/Check In/Learning Circle 3/ What is becoming more clear to you?) 9:35-12:30 Paired coaching practice (2 sessions & debrief) 10:40-11:05 Break/ Stretch

Lunch 12:40-1:40 Lunch 12:30-1:30 GROUP PI CTURE

Lunch 12:30-1:30

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1:40-6:00 PM 1:40-5:30 Coaching in the External System 3:45-4:00 Break/ Stretch 5:25-6:00 Reflection & Check-Out

1:30-6:00 PM 1:30-5:40 Coaching in the Internal System/ Story Work 3:25-3:50 Debrief/Break/ Stretch 5:40-6:00 Reflection & Check-Out 6:30 GROUP DINNER

1:30-4:00 PM 1:35-2:35 Review CCEU Requirements for Certificate + Post Program + Structured Case Review 2:35-3:00 Learning Circle meetings (schedule follow up calls) 3:00-4:00 Introduce CSP Network. Closing Circle (good bye for now)

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We Address Capacity Development at 5 Levels

1. Concepts, theories, and vocabulary. What to know.

2. Tools, methods, a “kit” of “how-to’s.” What to do. Recipes.

3. Skills... Skills are strengthened through practice, repetition, and coaching. How well we do things.

4. Stance… How you hold yourself in relation to your context. Intention, awareness, state of mind, embodiment.

5. Being and Identity… Who am I that I do these things?

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Context for this Workshop

WorkshopFaculty

In this workshop… Sometimes we'll be addressing

- you, your skills and capacities

- your coachee, what you help them see, understand, and do

- your coachee's relation to the rest of their world

Coachee

Coachee's World

Coach

Coach's World

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Butterfly Model of Complex Human Systems

Broader Broader Social Social

ContextContext

Broader Broader Social Social

ContextContextFace-to-Face Face-to-Face InteractionsInteractions

Face-to-Face Face-to-Face InteractionsInteractions

Deeper Deeper Individual Individual TerritoryTerritory

Deeper Deeper Individual Individual TerritoryTerritory

Less Visible

MostVisible

Least Visible

Internal SystemInternal SystemExternal SystemExternal System

Doing the Work

Interpersonal Behavior

BusinessEnvironment Organization

Mental Modelsmaps/beliefs

FeelingsCritical Images

& Stories

RESULTS are produced by the whole system and the interdependencies within it… they occur at the interface of the external and internal aspects of the system

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Butterfly Model — Major Tools

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Coaching in the External System

Causal MappingSystem ArchetypesEngine for Success

Coaching in the Internal System

Story Work

Coaching with Emergent Learning

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Coaching in the External System

Two Ways of Viewing Causality

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Emergent Learning Map™

Framing Question: What Do We Know About…?Framing Question: What Do We Know About…?

Ground Truth

Insights

Opportunities

Hypotheses

Translate past lessons into a theory of success

Focus on future opportunities

Recallrelevant

experiences

Learn from experience

Apply new theory to

opportunities

Action PlanSituationActionExpected resultSuccess metrics

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EL Mapping HintsFraming Question: How can we understand (something)? What will it take to… ? How is … happening?Clear, forward-focused questions.

Talk about actual past situations, events or results

Everyone should be able to agree with Ground Truth data

Include both positive and negative examples

Focus on the relationship between past results and what caused them

Link clearly to Ground Truth data No ungrounded assertions!

Start with what exists already (e.g., it’s already in someone’s calendar)

Add new actions only when absolutely necessary (this is not traditional Action Planning…this is about applying “lessons learned” to the work you already plan to do)

Link Hypotheses to both Insights and Opportunities

Look for Hypotheses you can test in real work and find concrete metrics you can test them against

“If” (action), “then” (results)

GROUND TRUTH OPPORTUNITIES

HYPOTHESESINSIGHTS

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1. PreparationObserve, observe, observe.Listen to the story.Draw the graphs.Clarify your focus in a framing question.

2. Ground TruthRecord real data, defining moments, patterns and changes.

3. Insights about the PastCreate a well-supported, valid, and meaningful explanation of what you have

seen.Create a diagram to keep track of complexity. Use an archetype if it fits.Add the “thought bubbles.” (Mental Models)What values are really important in this case?

4. Hypotheses about the FutureWhat does all this suggest to us about the future?What insights shall we apply and test?Look for leverage.

5. Action PlanningLook at the calendar. Start with opportunities that exist already.Look for recurring and iterative opportunities. 

Coaching Protocol, CombiningExternal Systems & Emergent Learning

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Experiencing your Systemic Story

Premises1. We each have a few core systemic stories. They reflect how we have

learned to operate in systems, for example, how we learned to:• Get attention or avoid getting attention• Be successful or avoid being successful• Take risks and keep ourselves safe• Give and receive love

2. The basic plotlines of our systemic stories were formed in the first system of which we were a part. They are the stories we have told ourselves about our experiences there.

3. Our systemic stories have a significant impact on our behavior in the present, especially as the stakes go up.

• The higher the stakes, the more likely our systemic stories are to become engaged and play themselves out in our present day behavior

4. Seeing systemic stories and how they play out in our lives and in our coaching is very high leverage in our work as systemic coaches

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The Essence of Story Work1. Identify the Present Dilemma

(Get permission to coach at story level--Establish the Agreement)– What is the presenting EVENT?– How are you responding to the event?– Are you interested in exploring this at the story level?– Does this response tend to be a repetitive PATTERN (storyline) in your

life? If so, how?

 2. Explore the Story– What role did the story play in your original system (STRUCTURE)?– How did it play out and who played what roles?– What thoughts, beliefs, and feelings did you develop about the story, the

other players, and about yourself?– What have been your resulting behaviors?

3. Develop Possible Alternatives– What are some other ways you might see this?– What other behaviors, beliefs, and assumptions could you hold?

4. Choose your New Story– What is the story you want to create, the story you choose to live?– What behaviors, beliefs, and assumptions support your new story?

5. Commit to Practice– What commitments do you choose to make?– How will you reinforce the new beliefs and assumptions?– How will you practice the new behaviors?

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Greetings from CSP Bangalore Feb 2011

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Noticing and Naming Internal and External Systemic Forces

In pairs, you will each describe a current challenge you face in your work

• First person takes 5 minutes to describe the challenge.

• Partner notices and names the internal systemic forces (mental models/maps/beliefs; feelings; critical images and stories). Explore and discuss the impact of these forces. (10 min)

• Partner then notices and names external forces in the broader social context ( the organization, business as a whole, the environment) Explore and discuss the impact of these forces. (10 min)

• Discuss together which internal and external forces are present and how identifying these systemic forces can deepen understanding, open new choices and enhance action(5 min)

• Switch roles

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