WHY FAMILY GATHERINGS?
A Powerful Approach.
We bring multidisciplinary perspectives and personal depth equal to the full complexity that exists in our client
families. We offer no simplistic off-the-shelf solutions. We see our role as helping families build capacity and
commitment. In doing our work with clients, we build with compassion by engaging clients with authenticity, respect,
creativity and wisdom. We do tend to see our work as helping clients to see in new ways, talk differently as a family,
engage in highly create and innovative approaches and act in new ways together. To understand our process a bit
more, we have put together the following graphic and brief explanations of our approach.
family gatherings
From meeting needs
to capacity building.
We design and facilitate family
gatherings that go beyond meeting
immediate needs. Our family
meetings create adaptive capacity.
This means that your family will not
only address the problem it faces
now, but will be much better
equipped to skillfully meet future
challenges.
What to expect.
A family gathering is not the same as a family meeting. Meetings
are boring, have agendas, leave most participants unsatisfied and
do not create lasting change. At their best they generate decisions,
but rarely action.
A family gathering is different. It is a place where important
matters are talked about with depth. It is place of exploration and
learning. It is a space of laughter and high energy. It is place
where hard things can be dealt with constructively. Family
gatherings provide a path for families to come together in deeper
ways, create profound alignment and change the way the family
works together.
An Interactive Look at Our Approach
Our family meetings are based on process cycle that involves seeing, talking, creating and acting together. Families that
engage in this process see themselves and their situation differently and gain clarity. As they talk, they develop skills of
collaboration based on communication and trust. As they create and innovate differently, they generate a kind of
inspirational coherence. This coherence allows them to act differently and thereby produce new commitments. Use your
mouse on the diagram below to learn more.
