Multiviewpoint Answers to Structural Problems 19 comments

14 Oct 2015 @ 15:43, by Max Sandor Multiviewpoint Answers to Structural Problems Reflections on my recent ULab Case Clinic experience as a 'case giver' by Max Sandor, 14.Oct.2015 Firstly, I have to admit that I went into the experience as a 'case giver' in a Case Clinic setting with somewhat mixed feelings. After working with various forms of multi-viewpoint and mirroring processes, individually and with groups, for more than 15 years, I did not expect any new insights or results from the Case Clinic approach. To my surprise, I found a solution to the problem I presented as a 'case giver' within 30 hours after the coaching process. The inputs for this new insight were traceable to the various inputs I received from the Case Clinic coaches; but not as a whole and at the time of the session but as parts of a puzzle of isolated pieces of informations from different persons. Reflecting on the 'how did it work?', I remembered a simple but intriguing model: "Imagine a person who is used to think only in two dimensions (2D) and is now looking at a three-dimensional object (3D) without quite understanding it yet. The person asks some other people to mirror back their impressions after talking about the vision of this strange image in its mind. The first person says: "it's a regular triangle", the second "it's a circle', and the third "it's an irregular triangle'. Under usual circumstances we would see an argument unfolding. "Who is right?" Any search for a usual, linear solution would lead only to more discordance. However, the 'case giver', if he accepts the answers of the different coaches as valid, and without further interpretations, may arrive at the insight "Aah. It's a three-dimensional object that I see in my mind, let's call it a cone'. In the hindsight, the conclusion is obvious. The answer was always present but it was not seen or acknowledged as such before. The key lies in allowing the person to synthesize an answer from the pieces of a puzzle without any prior interpretation by anyone, let alone suggesting a solution to a problem that until now was only partially seen. The urge to find an immediate solution is often so strong that the holistic process of the natural synthesis of an answer to a structural problem is capped, or, in other words, that the premature 'solution finding' is killing the natural, sound process of solution finding. Like in the Brazilian saying: "When you arrive with the corn flour, I'm already returning with the cake!", we want a solution before even putting its ingredients together and let it bake until it is ready. The Case Clinic for me was a great experience and put various things into a much clearer perspective. Thank you! Max @ https://www.facebook.com/MaximilianSandor

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