Selective Dynamic Inquiry System Skills eXperience

Tuesdays and Thursdays from March 31 through May 14 on Zoom.

A Challenge.

If I could introduce you to a set of forms that not only help you develop others, but are developmental for you as well, would you give me a few minutes of your attention?

Let me try, briefly, to frame S:DISS-X as a practical way of Meeting People Where They Are while helping people have lives.

S:DISS-X refers to the selective use of seven forms of inquiry. These forms are simple enough to learn, but powerful enough to deepen over time. They are not merely discrete techniques. They function as a network. Used selectively, they help a person respond with greater awareness, restraint, fit, and effectiveness in real human situations.

The 7 forms and their primary objects are:
• PING Insight
• PROBE Belief
• PROMPT RightACTION
• PERMIT Story
• PERTURB Assumptions
• PAUSE & Breathe
• PACE Change

Their power does not lie only in using one form well. Their power grows through density and frequency: more ways of using each form, more timely use across situations, and more thoughtful combinations as context shifts. Over time, what first appears simple becomes simplicity on the other side of complexity.

At the foundation of this work is pCc: potential, CAPACITY, and capability. In every interaction, we are listening for pCc so we can better meet people where they are rather than where we assume they should be. Because people live in changing Culture, Conditions, and Requirements, effective helping always depends on fit.

That is why S:DISS-X is not just about asking better questions. It is about perceiving context, recognizing readiness, and responding with more appropriate helping.

As these seven forms become more available, helping becomes less reactive and more generative. Interactions become more developmental, not only for the person being helped, but for the helper as well.

This work supports a range of helping functions, including:
• Cuing
• Scaffolding
• Supporting
• Lifting
• Protecting
• Guiding
• Reaching Out
• Helping People Have Lives

It also sharpens our attention to what makes help actionable. Actionable help is not vague encouragement. It attends to the realities of:
• Behaviors
• Design
• Knowledge, Skill, and Experience
• System Dynamics

And it stays connected to what matters most through IMULL:
• Importance
• Motivation
• Urgency
• Leverage
• Low-Hanging Fruit

When these are held well, they support RightACTION across the real dimensions of life:
• People
• Things
• Space
• Time
• Pace
• Reasons
• Results
• Well-Being

This is not abstract theory for its own sake. It is a practical way to engage humaning more skillfully.

Humaning includes:
• Being
• Doing
• Having
• Becoming
• Protecting
• Contributing
• Guiding
• Letting Go
• Moving On

All of it occurs within constraints. All of it draws upon limited resources. That is why attention to ITEAM remains essential:
• Information
• Time
• Energy
• Attention
• Motivation

And because good helping requires regulation, not just intention, the helper must also learn to BREATHE:
• Breathe
• Relax
• Equilibrate
• Adjust
• Think
• Home
• Evaluate

S:DISS-X gives language to processes people are already living, often without noticing them. We are already navigating readiness, assumptions, pacing, story, action, change, and constraint. The value here is that these patterns can be made more visible, more discussable, more teachable, and more usable.

What begins as seven learnable forms becomes, over time, a more deliberate way of meeting people where they are.

Interested?

Join me for an intensive virtual exploration of S:DISS-X in action, held Tuesdays and Wednesdays from March 31 through May 14. Across 8 contact hours, we will work with the seven forms, the helping functions they support, and the network of models that make this approach developmental for both helper and helped.

Bonus: Registration also includes our earlier S:DISS-X Charter introduction to the S:DISS-X approach, with both audio and video provided to all participants.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for $197