This workshop will introduce you to the distinctions between Facts, Feelings, Fictions (the 3Fs). This clarity will open you up to a whole new way of enaging in your personal work and in supporting others in theirs – as therapists, supervisors, coaches and practitioners in the helping professions.
The 3Fs Facts, Feelings, Fictions sit at the heart of a praxis called Presence in Action (PIA). This is a way of discerning our deeper patterns of thinking which show up in our language and behaviours. Often, we are totally unaware of these patterns and how they keep repeating throughout our lives until we gain a line of sight into them.
Unlike other reflective practices, PIA offers unique scaffolding to illuminate what is actually going on for each of us. It offers such a simple yet powerful lens for understanding ourselves AND for supporting others to grasp what might be going on for them. Even more crucially, it equips us to take personal responsibility for what we say and do to/with others AND supports us to avert being manipulated or knocked off balance by what others say and do to/with us.
Anyone can benefit from PIA because once you grasp its principles, it will support you wherever you are; whatever your role(s) in life. If you are a practitioner in a helping profession, PIA can literally transform the way you work.
If you feel intrigued or even disbelieving about this, do come along to this session to find out more!
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- The distinctions between facts, fictions and feelings
- An appreciation of how the 3Fs work together
- Recognising some ways in which unclear language trips us up
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Anyone working with themselves and/or others
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Participants may find they are more aware of how they are using language and the impact on other people
Course Content
Presenter
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.
