Key elements underpinning the work
Deepening the team’s relationship to its primary task.
Managing the emotional impact of work content, work contexts and group dynamics on team functioning.
Enhancing individual psychological flexibility and agility to strengthen teamwork.
Using diversity and difference as a team resource.
Making sense of and managing system complexity.
Validating professional courage in turbulent times.
Approach
Structured confidential reflective spaces.
Therapeutic coaching and role consultation.
Creative techniques including writing and journalling.
In-depth work on issues such as:
o Making sense of and addressing team conflict.
o Managing toxicity and surviving a toxic system.
o Starting again after a traumatic team experience.
o Losing focus and effectiveness as a team.
o Coping with errors, failing an inspection, falling short.
o Finding a way forward when life events overwhelm teamworking.
o And more ……
“…..Getting started, keeping going, getting started again – in art and in life, it seems to me that this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as others.…”
Heaney, S. (1996). Un-Commencement, Commencement address.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill