ABSTRACT
The basis of teaching for us is creation of co-evolving system between teachers and participants. In placing great emphasis on the co-evolving system, one of the aims of the first day of teaching is to attend to the group process and to maintain this attention throughout a teaching event. Learning involves an oscillating dynamism between experience and observation of that experience. People are always asked to jump from the participating to the observing level. Participants learn by having the experience of being systemic thinkers, but also by having many different experiences. They might move from interviewing a role-play family to interviewing a colleague about a work setting to being a family member to listening to a lecture, but are always being asked to think systemically. As teachers, our questions, like our questions as therapists, challenge the learner to declare him/herself and define his/her relationship to new ideas. Hypothetical future questions and reflective questions are particularly useful in a teaching context.
