caitlinwalker
26-02-2008, 03:53 PM
Dear colleagues, collaborators and clean facilitators..
Part of David’s legacy to us is a range of excellent tools for facilitating a system to self heal. I use clean and systemic principles in my work because I found them to be the most effective, elegant and life affirming processes that I know of.
At this difficult time when we are grieving for our friend and mentor, I would like to apply these tools to ourselves.
Training Attention took the principles and processes that David designed for healing individual systems, we translated and shaped them into ways of working effectively with large, often disparate communities.
Now I find myself part of a unique, large and disparate community and am wondering how we can develop and evolve now that David has gone. Some of us have followed David’s work for years and reconciled developments over years, others know an area really well and have added to it with their own expertise.
There are at least: Inner child work, Metaphor Therapy, Genealogical Healing, Words that wound, Mapping, Clean Space, Small world networks, Power of 6, Meta-drivers, Emergent Knowledge, Symbolic Modelling, Systemic Modelling and probably many more.
There may be people who perceive that they are the only ones keeping David’s work safe and true. However – as is true with all systems; no one element contains all of the relevant information.
The wisdom is in the system.
A principle David taught that changed my life and subsequently my work is; a clean facilitator must be an equal opportunities employer of all elements of the client’s metaphor.
My commitment is to apply this principle to ourselves; to hold each element of this richly diverse system in positive regard and pay it due diligence until it has the opportunity to reveal its strength.
My hope is to co- create a context in which the valuable information held by each of us can be picked up and carried across to others so that over time we create a cohesive collaborative field.
We can do this via: this Clean Forum, Conferences, peer reviewing articles, writing and reading papers, attending one another’s training and collaborating on projects.
What are your thoughts?
to be continued ...........
Part of David’s legacy to us is a range of excellent tools for facilitating a system to self heal. I use clean and systemic principles in my work because I found them to be the most effective, elegant and life affirming processes that I know of.
At this difficult time when we are grieving for our friend and mentor, I would like to apply these tools to ourselves.
Training Attention took the principles and processes that David designed for healing individual systems, we translated and shaped them into ways of working effectively with large, often disparate communities.
Now I find myself part of a unique, large and disparate community and am wondering how we can develop and evolve now that David has gone. Some of us have followed David’s work for years and reconciled developments over years, others know an area really well and have added to it with their own expertise.
There are at least: Inner child work, Metaphor Therapy, Genealogical Healing, Words that wound, Mapping, Clean Space, Small world networks, Power of 6, Meta-drivers, Emergent Knowledge, Symbolic Modelling, Systemic Modelling and probably many more.
There may be people who perceive that they are the only ones keeping David’s work safe and true. However – as is true with all systems; no one element contains all of the relevant information.
The wisdom is in the system.
A principle David taught that changed my life and subsequently my work is; a clean facilitator must be an equal opportunities employer of all elements of the client’s metaphor.
My commitment is to apply this principle to ourselves; to hold each element of this richly diverse system in positive regard and pay it due diligence until it has the opportunity to reveal its strength.
My hope is to co- create a context in which the valuable information held by each of us can be picked up and carried across to others so that over time we create a cohesive collaborative field.
We can do this via: this Clean Forum, Conferences, peer reviewing articles, writing and reading papers, attending one another’s training and collaborating on projects.
What are your thoughts?
to be continued ...........