Coaches Rising 184 - Peter Hawkins: Systemic Coaching in a Time of Transition
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Sep 7, 2023 
Leadership expert Peter Hawkins discusses the role of coaching in times of transition, the limits of AI coaching, systemic coaching, wide-angled empathy, and helping organizations embrace the unknown.
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Don't Mistake Cuts For Reality
- Gregory Bateson's systems thinking influenced Hawkins: cutting things into parts makes us treat the cut as reality.
- True understanding requires restoring attention to flows and interconnections, not reified parts.
Use Wide‑Angled Empathy
- Practice 'wide‑angled empathy' by empathizing with everyone in the client's story, not just the client.
- Be 'on the side of what needs to emerge' rather than taking the client's side or the other's side.
'Parish Of Bastards' Reframes Organizational Culture
- Hawkins described a supervisor session where labeling many people 'bastards' led to asking what's creating those people in the culture.
- That shift revealed patterns and avoided futile cycles of firing individuals that never solved the cultural problem.