Approaches and theories abound in the helping professions. Whatever your discipline, there is one thing in common: ‘do no harm’. All are offered as ways to variously help people change, learn, develop, heal, achieve … the list could go on. Some approaches are distinctly directional (past or future focused) whilst others are more exploratory and illuminatory.
Do we really need another one? Given the state of the world and the ‘fake’ news furor spinning across the globe… it seems that there might indeed be room for something different. This conversation between John and Louie Gardiner opened the space for a new way of approaching human transformation informed by complexity thinking. Following a lifetime of personal struggle and searching, Louie has spent the last few years engaged in a deeply personal doctoral inquiry. Drawing on diverse sources and theories, she has been examining and further developing her ‘abductive’ fruits – complexity-attuned approaches born of her own sense-making. In this conversation, John and Louie began to explore what was different about her approaches – in particular, the P6 Constellation. She shared how people across generations, contexts, and cultures were benefiting and offered her reflections on what was making the difference.
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PhD, MBA, BA (hons), FRSA, Author, Poet; Accredited Supervisor and Master Coach, Change-maker, facilitator, learning partner.
Louie is passionately involved in liberating human potential, drawing upon the natural processing dynamics of ‘Presence in Action’ and ‘Symmathesic Agency’ which pulse at the heart of all she does with individuals, groups and organisations.
These accessible approaches for catalysing personal and systemic change tap into diverse modes of exploration and expression that leverage all that makes us human. Deploying a fusion of poetic, visual, kinaesthetic, intellectual and performative modalities, Louie tickles out authentic human exchange, invoking those who engage to surface their personal and collective brilliance.
Louie’s work is grounded in her doctorate which epitomises the integration of deep personal and collective inquiry; emergent symmathesic professional practice; coherent philosophical and theoretical foundations, and a pioneering approach to academic research.
Her past roles include CEO, Board Trustee, Head of Corporate Performance & Development; visiting lecturer to undergraduate and post-graduate degrees.
She has contributed articles to both academic and practice-based journals e.g. Human Arenas, Cybernetics and Human Knowing, e-O&P Journal, Coaching Today, the3rdi magazine, and Book Chapters in Coaching Supervision Groups: Resourcing Practitioners (2021); Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes (2019); and The Collaboratory (2015); poetry anthology Attending, Responding, Becoming: An anthology of surprises beyond intention or design (2021) see Louie’s website.
