Photo by Gera Cejas on Pexels Solving many professional challenges requires a special type of attention. Often, we don’t deliberately choose what we listen to and what we look at. And then something we overlook or overhear can reinforce an unwanted pattern. If you don’t notice that your counterpart in a negotiation is afraid of […]

Photo by Goran Vučićević on Unsplash When she gives a talk, a coach and author, Martha Beck, sometimes asks people in the audience whether they are sitting comfortably. When everyone politely nods, she asks again, ‘Are you really sure you are comfortable?’ People still nod, now perhaps a bit irritated. Then she continues, ‘If you […]

We use the verb ‘to think’ to refer to a group of different cognitive and affective processes. If modalities of thinking are our tools to solve tasks with our minds, knowing distinctions between these processes is critical. Without discerning the tools, we end up hammering the nails with a frying pan.

Image by Javier Calvo Parapar from Pixabay Some time ago there was a day when I was feeling shitty. I felt frustrated with myself and with others, I felt resentful, I felt ashamed, I felt inadequate. What does one do when he feels like that? What I wanted was for that mood to be gone. […]

My Interest in T-groups I was interested in groups pretty early in my coaching journey. Around 8 years ago I read everything that was available about group coaching* but I didn’t really find out about T-groups until around 2 years ago and mainly through the work of Carl Rogers**. He wrote a book ‘On Encounter […]

Photo by Robert Clark on Pexels In the previous blog I wrote about some of the most common complexity anti-patterns. Here, I would like to talk about the work of Carl Rogers. For those who don’t know, Carl Rogers was one of the most prominent psychologists of the 20th century, albeit not that influential these […]

Photo by Ming Sun on Pexels In this blog, I want to offer an overview of the themes distilled from different literature that can be considered anti-patterns when we deal with complexity. This is intended as part one of a two-blog series. In the second one, I will share how the work of Carl Rogers […]