Pivoting Your Team

Create Capabilities, Curiosity, and Engagement Between Individuals

A Pivot + Systemic Modeling™ Approach

Pivot Wellness combines over fifteen years of coaching and facilitation work with a potent and effective framework called Systemic Modeling™, a long-lasting strategy to inspire capabilities, curiosity, and engagement in wildly diverse groups and teams.

Caitlin Walker, the founder of the technique says it best when she explains, “using Systemic Modeling™ with individuals in groups enables them to:

• “Make better use of the intelligence and experience of each person in the group.

• Spend less time making assumptions and being in conflict.

• Spend more time in appreciation and wondering what they’d each like to have happen.

• Be interested in untapped resources

• Understand better where each of them is coming from.”

• Form a network of attention to each other and elevate to a “group level intelligence.”

• Shift their system in the way it needs, in the moment, collaboratively

One of the key ingredients to Pivot’s approach to working with groups of individuals is a profound commitment to trusting the wisdom and importance of what each person has to offer.

You hired them, they joined, or have stayed for a reason: let’s get them to their best, more of the time.

We cultivate that trust and engagement within the group through creating a space where individuals are guided to more thoroughly listen to themselves and each other through creative, non-judgmental activities and reflection.

Then, the magic happens: ATTENTION.

Pivot supports groups to create a network of attention, where individuals are more capable to hear, understand, and appreciate their and each other’s way of being and doing. And appreciation lends itself to less conflict, more group-level intelligence, and more effective outcomes from group work, start to finish.

From ATTENTION, teams and groups learn to transfer this intelligence to their intended outcomes, projects, and purpose.

What working together will look like…

There are two primary and simple ingredients: Attention and Curiosity.

In many ways, it is that simple. And like many experiences, simple is far from easy.
Because Systemic Modeling™ is about

• Strengthening attention and curiosity into durable and far-reaching skills and assets

• We will begin with “easy” topics and applications to learn and practice, together

• Getting more specific to the wants and needs of the company or group with each successive iteration of “training” these two “muscles”

I train these two fundamental and foundational assets, Attention and Curiosity, by guiding participants to reflect on their experiences, using, for example, one of their five senses. We then practice a specific strategy of sharing and being curious about others’ worldview.

This specific way is called Clean Language, and it supports speakers and listeners alike to set aside assumptions and judgements of right/wrong by

• Better understanding their own worldviews

• Being able to separate their thoughts, ideas, and inferences from another person’s

• And, the most profound aspect, have a frame and strategy of supremely curious questions to provide in-depth understanding of a person's worldview and experience - an especially helpful tool when conflict or confusion arises

Outcomes of this work look like…

Better together: Individuals make fewer assumptions about each other and find small shifts that make huge impacts on working well together

Advocates: Self-and-group awareness supports everyone in maintaining the most effective work and culture for everyone involved by advocating for their own and each others best practices

Deep respect: Clearly see your own inner “rules” and paradigms. know that others operate uniquely, and that all are important to the whole

Prevent drama and contempt: Get folks talking more effectively through issues with clear, simple, curious guidelines to move through the most dense of drama

Crystal Clarity: See clearly what is happening, what you/they would like to have happen, and the steps necessary to get there

What folks are saying about Systemic Modeling™

“We have shorter and more productive meetings.”

“When we make a decision now, it sticks. We don’t have to go over it again.”

"We get less emotional when we’re discussing conflicting ideas.”

”It’s like the metaphors (used in SM) put a distance between the ideas and each of us - we’re both talking about an idea, not criticizing one another.”

Booking a consultation for your team will look like

I will guide you briefly through the technique I would eventually expand upon with your group. We would:

• Clarify what you are seeing now

• Confirm what you would like to have happen

• You’ll get a feel for the tools I use

• I will learn about you, your needs, and if/how I can support

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