We think that at a certain level of experience, we’ve seen it all.
I have ten years of practice, and for six days, I’m in training.
With experience, you build a solid practice.
But you can also end up looking at situations through the same lenses.
The training is called The Human Element.
I discovered it through my colleagues in my supervision group.
The way they talked about it, the links they made with their practice, what I sensed in their own stance…
It sparked my curiosity.
The approach is Will Schutz’s.
It explores three fundamental dimensions: inclusion, control and openness.
With awareness, choice and truth as its guiding principles.
What I’m looking for is an extra layer of depth.
Leadership isn’t just about knowing how to decide, give feedback or rally a team.
I meet executives who know they need to delegate, but take back control as soon as the pressure rises.
Managers who know the principles of feedback, but don’t dare say what really matters.
Teams who talk about cooperation, without ever naming what’s really going on between them.
Leadership also plays out in what we do with our need to be included.
In our relationship with control.
In our ability to truly show up in a relationship.
And that’s precisely what The Human Element explores.
A nuanced reading of what’s at play in relationships.
An explicit bridge between self-awareness and collective performance.
A framework for working on what limits cooperation, trust and responsibility.
Through an experiential approach, consistent with the way I work.
I’m not looking for one more tool to apply to leaders.
I’m looking to better understand what sometimes stops them from fully using what they already know.
Experiencing it with Gia makes sense too.
We met several years ago on a training programme, already as participants.
Since then, we’ve experimented, built and facilitated a great deal together.
Today, we support leaders through experiences where the relationship isn’t a side issue.
It’s part of the work.
This time, we’re back together as participants.
A way of closing the loop.
And probably opening a new one.
Before the holidays, six days to learn, experiment, and perhaps be unsettled.
And to keep expanding my own capacity to relate, to choose and to act.
Because helping others look at what’s happening inside them means continuing to look at what’s happening inside yourself.