Teams by Design BCCJ Masterclass round-up

Earlier this year I ran a “Teams by Design” workshop for BCCJ as a masterclass. BCCJ gave me a write up on their site earlier this year. I touch also on Zoom fatigue which is so relevant during our ongoing battle with the Covid 19 crisis. I invited participants to complete a “constellation,” a tool that offers a visual representation of the current state of their relationship system- this material is adapted from adapted from ORSC™ CRR Global Content.

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“Teams by Design” was the topic of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan’s latest Quaran-time Masterclass on January 21. Sarah Furuya, founder of Sarah Furuya Coaching, led the interactive session, designed to prompt participants to consider the meaningful relationships in their professional and private lives.

The executive and life coach began by outlining the basics of the relationship system, a group of independent entities with a common focus of identity, such as a team, organisation or family. The key principle of a healthy system is the support, regulation, nurturance and wellbeing of its members. Within the system, everyone is right, but only partially, and there is no black of white, she said. The goal of each member should be always to move “towards the right relationship” with the system, to change the mindset “from me to we.” Moreover, each members should be deliberate about the emotions they bring to their system’s emotional field.

Dealing with relationship systems, added Furuya, requires three types of intelligence: emotional intelligence, or awareness of self; social emotional intelligence, or awareness of others; and relationship systems intelligence, the collective information held by the relationship. In a marriage, for example, there are three entities: the two people and the marriage, which “has a life of its own.”

You can read more here.

You can also catch the replay here on Youtube.