What are you seeing?

[Oliver Riddett]

One of the simplest ideas within The Archetype Approach is to create a little more space between what happened and what we decide it means.

[Oliver Riddett]

What are you seeing?

One of the simplest ideas within The Archetype Approach is to create a little more space between what happened and what we decide it means.

A child keeps saying no.
Another watches from the edge.
Someone repeatedly interrupts a game.
Someone else wants to organise everybody.

Before we decide what that behaviour means, what did we actually see?

I thought this could be a place to bring real moments from practice and look at them together.

If you have a child, behaviour or interaction that you keep thinking about, share it here and we can explore:

• what was directly observable;

• what different interpretations might be possible;

• what human capacity may be showing itself;

• whether anything appears to be becoming rigid or out of balance;

• what the adult, relationships or environment may be contributing;

• what kind of balancing experience might help.

There doesn’t have to be a correct answer.

The aim is simply to look again.