1st Season Summary - Putting It All Together S1: E8

Beyond the Buzzwords

Weeks into the Beyond the Buzzwords podcast, we're now down to the conclusion of the show's first season. What better way to celebrate this milestone than a good recap of the wisdom shared across the episodes? Alain Wegmann does just that and puts it all together.

In the first two episodes, he introduced a metaphor about living beings and explained the usefulness of metaphors. In the third episode, he interviewed Ernest Gmunder about his use of metaphors in consulting. In the remaining episodes, he introduced the four main patterns proposed in the Seam method. These patterns are:

(1) Curiosity, essential for discovering our reality and the reality of others and for shaping our lives;

(2) Appreciation, a tool for forming agreements about possible changes between people and organizations;

(3) Service, a conceptual tool for understanding exchanges of information, matter, and energy between people and organizations;

(4) Action, the actions necessary to motivate people to accept the changes.

These four - curiosity, appreciation, service, and action - are the CASA patterns (CASA in Italian and Spanish). The CASA is our home where we keep our tools for any and all our projects in our professional and private lives.

In this last episode, Alain Wegmann summarises all of the above.