Working together
Four ways in
Everything below uses the same framework. What changes is who is in the room, how long we work, and how much of it happens outside. If you are not sure which fits, write and tell me what the weather is. That conversation is free and usually settles it.
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One-to-one coaching
Who it’s for
Leaders carrying real weight: executives, agency heads, superintendents, principals, foundation and nonprofit directors. People whose judgment under pressure affects a lot of other people.
What happens
We start with the scenes, not with a self-assessment. You bring the hard moments from the last few weeks. We read them together through the arenas and patterns until a drift shows up more than once. Then we go looking for what holds it in place, and build a practice to catch it earlier. Most clients find one or two arenas where they reliably lose proportion, and one pattern that does most of the damage.
Format
Six months to start, with a session every two weeks, by video or in person. Between sessions you keep a short log of scenes. At least one session happens outside, on foot, if geography allows.
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Teams and cohorts
Who it’s for
Leadership teams that need a shared language for pressure, and cohorts of leaders from different organizations who want to build it together. This is the right fit when the problem is not one person but how a group behaves when conditions get hard.
What happens
The team learns the seven arenas and the ten patterns, then uses them on their own recent history: the decisions that went well and the ones that did not. The language becomes a way of talking about hard moments without blame. Over time, the team gets faster at naming the weather in the room and adjusting before it costs them.
Format
An opening session of one or two days, followed by monthly working sessions for six months. Teams of six to fourteen. The opening session is best held off-site and at least partly outdoors.
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A day on the land
Who it’s for
Anyone who wants to feel the framework before deciding whether to work with it. Teams, small groups, or individuals. This is the fastest way to understand what In Any Weather is, and it is the way most people start.
What happens
A day on sixteen wooded acres in the Berkshires, on foot. We start at a stone wall that has been there for two hundred years and walk the land while the framework unfolds through what is in front of us: the history of the place, the trails, the hills, the weather we actually get that day. Everyone does something they are a beginner at. Then we sit down and talk about what happened, in the arena language, and about what it looks like on Monday.
Format
One day, roughly nine to four. Groups of four to twelve. All fitness levels; the walking is real but nobody is left behind. Lunch included. Spring through fall.
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Families
Who it’s for
Parents of a child who is struggling to learn, especially to read. The child is in Scale and Slow build. The parents are in Depletion and Opposition, often with each other and often with the school. Everybody needs a way to name what is happening and a plan that survives a bad week.
What happens
We work with the whole family, not just the kid. The child gets a beginner’s practice that is not reading, so they can feel what effort and slow progress are like somewhere the stakes are low. The parents get the arena language and a way to talk to each other, and to the school, about what the kid needs without it becoming a fight. Everyone gets the same vocabulary, so a hard evening can be named instead of relived.
Format
Three months to start, meeting weekly. Some sessions with the whole family, some with parents alone, some with the child alone. In person in the Berkshires or by video.
Not sure which
Most people aren’t. Write and tell me what the weather is. I’ll tell you honestly whether I think this is a fit, and which way in makes sense. If it isn’t a fit, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better.