This really resonates. I've come out of a couple challenging experiences in recent years where I was brought in to help with enabling the things you mention like time, space, purpose, relationship and a sense of their own humanity.
But, at times, those experiences have ended up being diverted into the other responses you describe as "feeling wrong to them", irrelevant or threatening. I've seen the "right thing" be met with the equivalent of an organizational autoimmune response.
I'm still working through how to recalibrate an effective approach. Maybe I need to pivot from an internally based approach to an outside-in path, and to your point, only when there is a level of reception and readiness for it. I've seen the power distribution inside organizations literally run great talent and needed human capabilities out of the building while the organization is starving for those needed human qualities. There were days it felt like I was a medic on a battlefield rather than a member of a healthy community.
This really resonates. I've come out of a couple challenging experiences in recent years where I was brought in to help with enabling the things you mention like time, space, purpose, relationship and a sense of their own humanity.
But, at times, those experiences have ended up being diverted into the other responses you describe as "feeling wrong to them", irrelevant or threatening. I've seen the "right thing" be met with the equivalent of an organizational autoimmune response.
I'm still working through how to recalibrate an effective approach. Maybe I need to pivot from an internally based approach to an outside-in path, and to your point, only when there is a level of reception and readiness for it. I've seen the power distribution inside organizations literally run great talent and needed human capabilities out of the building while the organization is starving for those needed human qualities. There were days it felt like I was a medic on a battlefield rather than a member of a healthy community.