Achieving Deep and Lasting Change
Have you ever been struggling to create change, only to find that despite your best efforts, you or your organization stays stuck? Or that you are slipping into old familiar habits—questioning the value of your investment in an expensive training program or organizational initiative?
Change is a topic that is possibly the focus of more efforts on a personal or organizational level than anything else. Yet real change — deep change that lasts — is elusive.
We specialize in helping individuals and organizations do exactly that—create deep change that lasts. We specialize in:
- Training
- Coaching
- Facilitation and Mediation
- Management Consulting and Organizational Diagnosis
- Strategic Communication and Writing Services
Our work is based on our own experience as facilitators, coaches and leaders, well as ongoing research which indicates that six factors are essential to creating and maintaining profound and lasting change.
- Vision is essential—both a clear image of what is desired as well as clarity about the current situation.
- Knowledge and skills are also critical—this includes specific expertise for the particular task at hand, as well as broader skills around reflecting on experience and learning from it.
- Support is also a key ingredient – both in terms of providing tools and systems to ensure that the desired change is reinforced, as well as the emotional support to handle the transitions required.
- An understanding of the big picture, how things interconnect — systems thinking — is also necessary.
- As is the ability to use stories, art and ritual to enhance the movement forward and sustain it.
- And finally change requires creating space for the “quantum factor” – to allow for luck, synchronicity, or the sense of a greater intelligence to emerge in support of transformation.
We have developed a model for change which is based on wisdom and research in a range of traditions and disciplines that incorporates each of these essential components. It guides our approach to any work we do with clients—whether it a major organizational intervention, a customized training program, or individual coaching.
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