A few years ago, 2006 to be specific, my business partner Erna Hagge and I took one of those leaps you read about to create something new in the world. We wrote a book called Tri-namics: Coaching Triangle System. We printed 30 copies- my goodness we thought this was a huge number. We printed 30 as some of our colleagues were asking if they could get some of our work, some of the things we had created to use with clients. We coil bound the book and sold it for $49 thinking we would sell at least some of them. To our surprise they disappeared in a couple of weeks! We looked at each other and thought, hey maybe we should do more. However, we thought best to edit and revise as we uncovered lots of little errors.
Revise we did, and printed a bunch more that also disappeared into all kinds of organizations. We learned so much, and have kept learning. The space that emerges between creating and publishing is such an interesting one- the intensity of creation and the void that appears once the book is produced that we need to cross- reaching up and out beyond our borders to connect after having being cocooned in the creative process is quite wonderfully a stretch.
Erna and I continue to create, publish and share our work with the world. Deberna International continues to grow and we are eternally grateful to those who "get Tri-namics", who understand we can develop leaders in so many different ways, that peer coaching really does work when approached through self-directed learning, and that Tri-namics extends, embeds, stimulates and contributes to new kinds of conversations that will transform our workplace cultures.
Right now we are exploring new partnerships that are emerging:
- Healthcare in Canada with a new custom edition of Tri-namics: Leadership Wisdom for Healthcare built on the LEADS in a Caring Environment national framework for leadership development.
- Translation of Tri-namics: Provocative Questions for Leadership Wisdom into Russian, to expand into the Russian market
- Licensing of Tri-namics Consultants in Australia and continuing to grow in Canada
What will fill our space next? We do know that our vision of "Growing Wisdom to Thrive" we live every day. Together we continue in our own partnership to grow our own wisdom, to use Tri-namcis everyday in our own business, to learn from and with each other and our community. We are thriving.
As leaders in organizations today move from "knowledge to wisdom" and from "surviving to thriving" we expect our leaders will be wise and our planet to thrive, supporting all living systems.
We love to ask provocative questions, our book has 300+- here is one for you: What wisdom are you bringing into the world?
