We're faced with challenges in all areas of our lives and all ecosystems that we engage with. In order to help you to turn obstacles into opportunities I have created the Pause to Puzzle Framework. This approach can be learned and applied by anyone and it can be adapted to facilitate positive progress when facing problems in any ecosystem. Embracing this process as a practice develops:
Personal empowerment | Critical thinking for greater understanding | Collaborative opportunities
A process for optimising our experience, opportunities, efficiencies and the meeting of everyone's needs.
Create space between something happening and our response. This empowers the opportunity to our increase awareness and choose how we engage.
Simply pause....everything. Actions, motion, thoughts... This will allow for non-judgmental observation, reduce automatic responses and habitual reactions that may have negative impacts. It will give you time to pay attention and see what you can notice.
Gather information, improve your awareness and build your capacity for designing positive solutions.
Observe and get curious. Connect and ask questions. Investigate and gain greater understanding. Discover what is contributing and available for you to work with.
Holistic solution design to optimise the experience, opportunities and outcomes.
Working with all of the people, information and contributing factors you have collected, you can piece together your puzzle to design optimal solutions.