Creating Tomorrow
Newsletter - December 2015
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Pat Collarbone
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This months tool - The Empty Chair
Purpose
The empty chair technique gives a voice to the person you are working with when they may be feeling conflicted, torn or ambivalent about a relationship. It can help people move from talking about something in the abstract towards a full and immediate present experience.
Process
Ask the person to sit opposite an empty chair and then mentally place into that chair someone significant at work who is/has caused them difficulty or trouble at work. They then tell the ‘person’ in the empty chair what they have been unable to express before. When they have said their piece they are encouraged to swap chairs and to answer their claims or accusations from the other person’s perspective.
Hints and tips
This can be a very powerful tool and should be used with great care and sensitivity. The focus of an open chair session is on the process and experience of the dialogue not the content.
Typical duration
10 minutes
Requirements
A spare chair.
Find out more
This is another one of the tools in Peer2. A simple yet powerful self-directed programme for senior leaders working in pairs to help and support each other during times of significant change. Both partners will find out and at the same time profit from the experience of each other. Peer2 is based on the well-known fact that we learn better from our peers than in a lecture theatre and also when we are working on really tough problems.