What guides our thinking
✸ To be bold, look within. The answers we often search for outside are within us.
What's happening between two people tells you something about the whole team. What's happening in one team tells you something about the whole organization.
This is why we focus our attention to what’s happening in the room, pay attention what’s emerging, and use that to design effective interventions for outside the room.
✸We are all overwhelmed. Shaping change asks us to support each other.
As journalist Amanda Ripley says, we are amygdala on the loose. Our nervous system doesn't know the difference between a difficult conversation and a predator.
Leading transformation asks us to start by providing support because support soothes the nervous system, which enables us to learn.
This is why Suchee uses techniques like reflective listening, cohesion exercises, storytelling, play, uplifting shared values. This is why breaks are sacred. Why food and nourishment is sacred. This is why nervous system work is sacred.
✸ The creative potential is in the contradiction. Tend to difference.
As leadership expert and Suchee collaborator, Judy Le, says: Where there is tension, there is progress. When there is enough tension, enough heat in the system, it allows for change. Too little tension, we fall asleep. Too much tension, groups become chaotic and dysregulated.
The work is in finding, naming, and staying with that tension, that difference. This is why Suchee intentionally pays attention to, tends to, and, sometimes even creates productive difference/discomfort!
✸We exist in relationship. We are because we help become one another.
This is why our work is designed to strength the relationships in the room. We talk straight, lean in on each other, and move at the speed of trust. Critical connection > Critical mass
Suchee uses storytelling, peer coaching, sounding boards, big and small groups conversations to build the relationship scaffolding necessary for transformation.
✸ The large is a reflection of the small. Me, We, World.
Patterns, Repetition, Spirals. Every pattern that exists at the level of civilization exists at the level of a single conversation.
This is why we ask: how is the individual shifting, how is the team shifting, how is the org shifting? And then how does the org shift change the individual?
