The Navigation of Worlds, Space and Time

This section is based around assisting the facilitator to navigate the client in and through their worlds. The first barrier to this is the boundaries that encompass/encase those worlds. Just as the first explorers had no maps, neither do we and neither will the client. However we do have the following tools to aid in our exploration and thus assist in this navigational issue.

There are a set of intervention strategies that facilitate a journey through our worlds. Internal worlds can be mapped externally by overlaying them into a room or a landscape, which has the effect of objectifying an internal phenomena into a real geographic space from which information is gained – this is done by having the client write or draw then place the pieces of paper in space around them.

Using clean language and clean space allows us to navigate these worlds.

Solutions are found at a different level than the problem is stated, by using simple dynamic rules that transform complexity into a route that can be navigated. The primary world is the level in which the problem is stated and the solution is found in secondary and tertiary worlds, which are at different levels to the problem.

As a facilitator using these techniques a range of materials should be acquired to allow your client the maximum choice when expressing themselves through writing and drawing:

• A3 / A4 / A5 / Letter / Legal Paper
• A selection of good dictionaries
• Flip / Easel Chart Paper
• Scissors and Sellotape / Scotchtape
• Post It™ notes – Various Colours
• Blue tak / Poster Putty
• Pencils / Crayons / Coloured Markers / Pens
• Index Cards