Claire writes: “While we are doing all the thinking and all the hard work, why would the thinker think? That’s an example of sharing that illustrates 3D’s principle that keeping the responsibility in the middle of a conversation is useful when it’s coaching. And partnership.

These last few weeks, I have been writing up some of my new ideas.  I observe that sometimes people are in full flow in the middle of a conversation while their companion isn’t bought in at all. Keeping responsibility between us means stepping in gently, at about the same pace as the person we are working with. Which might not be what we were hoping for. And is exactly the right thing to do right now.”