Co-development and Theory U, resonances and synergies

"We are training that day a group of managers in co-development facilitation.

Our intention with this training course is not to give a lecture using the two-way method, but to dissect with the managers, future facilitators, the anchor points of this practice. Our objective is to make them reflect on the meaning of the different steps, their role in this process that brings out a collective intelligence at the service of one and all members of a community of peers.

In our co-facilitation, we decided to give free rein to our intuitions and creativity, trusting each other and remaining jointly responsible and vigilant about the themes and topics to be addressed during the day.

During the day and thanks to an interaction with a participant, we seize this opportunity to give some elements on the technique and practice of reframing in a collective dynamic. One thing leading to another, we bounce from the steps of Theory U to those of co-development. The presentation of the superposition of the processes flows naturally and makes sense for us as well as for each participant.

Without them, neither of us would have made this parallel. And the mirror is reversed. They are the ones who generated without realizing it our capacity to make this link. We made something alive, in the moment, the "flow".

We modeled for the participants the creative force of a pair of peers who trust each other, and trust their intuitions, capable of bringing forth a new idea, which was not there for either of us at the precise moment we intervened. .... "

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