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Ways of working

The focus, the goal, what's in the way and what helps.

A room for systemic coaching opens with names for the parts of a question rather than a family, and plain wooden shapes beside the figures. Your client places them, and you both see the picture change.

A LineAstra board in a dark blue paper world with a figure named The client and shapes named The focus, The goal, An obstacle, A resource and A hidden theme

A session, step by step

  1. The whole board, with one figure and five shapes
    1

    Your client sets out the question

    A figure for themselves, and a shape for the goal, an obstacle, a resource.

  2. The client's figure up close, beside the focus and an obstacle
    2

    Distance and direction say something

    What stands between the client and the goal, what they face, and what's behind them.

  3. The same pieces seen from lower down
    3

    Try a move

    Move one piece and see what changes for the others. You can undo it.

What this way of working sets up

A starting point. You can change any of it for one room, or for every new room in your practice.

  • Figures

    Figures for people, and a block, a sphere, a column, a cone and a marker for everything else.

  • Names offered

    The focus, The goal, An obstacle, A resource, A hidden theme and The client. Your client can type any other name.

  • Your client can

    Add, move and turn figures, and see through a figure's eyes.

  • Representatives

    Off. One client, working with you.

  • World

    The one you choose for this way of working. Every world works with it.

Free while LineAstra is in early access.