I'm prepping for all of my favorite things! Over here adapting the work of master facilitators and change-agents Caitlin Walker (PhD), Patrick Lencioni, Keith McCandless and others, while using visual tools I learned from the Belgian facilitator and graphic facilitator Charles-Louis de Maere.
In the next two weeks, I’ll be coaching one-on-one, guiding a workshop on collaboration for a pair of company leaders, and facilitating a retreat for a team of 30.
In a recent conversation with Caitlin about how I've been implementing the Clean Language tool she developed for group facilitation, Systemic Modeling, I meekly told her I was applying her work differently than she had taught me to use it.
Her husband, the Clean Language therapist Shaun Hotchkiss, peeked his head around the corner of the zoom screen.
"I should hope you're adapting it!" he said. He went onto explain that while it's useful to know and understand the original trunk, branch and lineage of a methodology, adaptation to each specific situation is everything.
If I was at all still concerned, Caitlin cleared that out with what she said next:
"If you're not adapting it, it's dying."
Feeling lucky that I get to do this work, and as part of it, learn from mentors like Caitlin, Shaun and Charles-Louis.
