The practicality of Theory U

[Veerle De Bock]

Dear community, 

the impressions of Gendlin's Philosophy of the Implicit so carefully transmitted by Neil are still vibrating through me. Everything is connected and truly affects everything. 

I named the marriage between 'focusing' and 'Dynamic Facilitation' the invitation of the inner and outer guests. 

‘Guest House Facilitation’ is the practicality of ‘Theory U’ in an amazing new and exciting way. What can unfold is beyond our imagination.

We are much more miraculous and astonishing than we imagine and so is each living ‘being’ we create through our meetings, workshops, events, gatherings, organizations, systems. A model can only assist us to grasp a glimpse of endless possibilities of what is happening in ‘Guest House Facilitation’. 

If you want to read more, an extensive report of a workshop is at your disposition forum of www.chancestochange.com

I would love to hear from you. 

warm regards

Veerle 

[Rosa Zubizarreta]

Veerle,

It sounds like a wonderful workshop that you led! 

I am VERY happy for you, that you are finding new ways to bring together, all of the many gifts you have been gathering, in your harvesting basket... to weave them together in a skillful way, and offer them back to others...

I also appreciate how you are so careful and attentive, about giving appreciation and credit to all of the beautiful strands, that are part of your original creation...

There is Theory U, there is Dynamic Facilitation, there is Focusing, and, there is so much more, as you have trained in so many modalities, as is evident in your book...   

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I would like to "add a strand" to your beautiful weaving by mentioning Guest House Focusing, which is the adaptation of Focusing that Nina Joy Lawrence and Patricia Omidian created thirteen years ago, based on their experiences in Afghanistan.

When Pat and Nina Joy attended my DF workshop in Eugene in 2012, they became very inspired by the parallels between the "outer work" of DF and the "inner work" of Guest House Focusing. Pat later began to experiment with including DF into her Focusing workshops and wrote me a lovely account of her experiences with that, which I shared with you but I may not have shared with everyone here. I also wrote a blog post about it for NCDD...

I am VERY happy to see that you are continuing to explore "bringing together the inner and the outer"... that is such valuable work... and that you are bringing to this work, so many other valuable frameworks and tools, such as Theory U...

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I am also VERY happy about something else.... As we know in the Focusing world, part of growth and development is differentiation. And so, we don't just have one "flavor" of Focusing... 

we now have "Whole Body Focusing", which is a creative synthesis of Alexander Technique and Focusing.... we have "Inner Relationship Focusing", which was developed by Ann Weiser Cornell and has a great deal of emphasis on Inner Parts and language... we have "Domain Focusing" developed by Robert Lee, which has its own valuable models and formats... etc. etc. etc.

These are NOT just 'names', they are expansions, development, evolution in action, as people have brought their own gifts, backgrounds, and perspectives, into the exploration of 'inner space' that is so wonderfully facilitated by Gendlin's original Focusing practice....

each of these valuable new traditions has their own gifts that they are offering, their own contributions that they are making, to the larger whole... and many of us in the Focusing community, very much enjoy learning from our different teachers, as each one has something valuable to offer...

and as you know, that is the second aspect of growth and development... not just "differentiation", but also "integration"...

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and that is the third thing that I am very happy about... 

not just that you had a wonderful workshop, not just that you are creating your own body of original work that is DF-inspired and Focusing-inspired, 

but ALSO, that you are bringing it here, and sharing it with us...

that is the original intention of this list, Veerle, to be a place where we can communicate our new discoveries and experiments with one another...

to encourage one another, to continue to learn and grow...

and so I am very moved, and very grateful,

and wishing you, all the best...

with much love,

Rosa  

Rosa Zubizarreta

Diapraxis: Facilitating Creative Collaboration
http://www.diapraxis.com

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