SCT brings me much as a person and as a professional in my work as a team/leadership coach:

In this ongoing group, which I have now been with for several years, I have been able to explore and learn to express all kinds of parts of myself in working with others. What helps enormously is to learn through working in a group to see that these are universal voices that live in every group. And therefore not mine alone. For me, this has allowed me to integrate parts of myself better but also to begin to allow, appreciate and utilize differences in others.

Also, from the theory and my own experiences, I now understand even better how a group is a living ‘system’ with forces that have enormous impact on how people in the group behave. When I translate this to my work, it gives me even more insight and lived experience in how the undercurrent in a group, team or organization is much more decisive for results than the upper current. Especially if they are not aligned with each other. Thanks to SCT, I really got to (re)know that undercurrent and experienced for myself what works and what does not. With this I can now better balance outside, and sometimes on the edge of ‘the system’ of organizations and teams so that I keep a better eye on the dynamics. And really stay present, and offer tools to break persistent patterns and develop other ways of working together.

So for me, SCT is triple educational: for me personally in relation to others, at the level of learning in a group which helps me recognize what stage of group development we are in and, last but not least, for my roles as a team/leadership coach what interventions are appropriate. SCT has inspired me so much that I am now participating in the follow-up training toward certification.

Patricia Aerts
Team|Organization|Individual Coach