Defeating the Drama Triangle: Navigating Interpersonal Dynamics
Interpersonal dynamics transformation
Discover the transformative power of understanding and reshaping your interpersonal dynamics in a brief yet powerful research-backed experience. This dynamic session explores and reshapes your interpersonal interactions through the powerful concepts of moving from the Drama Triangle to…
Active Listening
Cognitive Reframing
Communication Skills Practice
Empathy Exercises
Feedback / Difficult Conversations
Group Activity
Workshop
Description
Discover the transformative power of understanding and reshaping your interpersonal dynamics in a brief yet powerful research-backed experience. This dynamic session explores and reshapes your interpersonal interactions through the powerful concepts of moving from the Drama Triangle to the Winner’s Triangle.
Dive into the experience:
- Welcome & Introductions: Create a safe space with an overview of session goals and personal intention-setting.
- Understanding Roles: Dive into the Drama Triangle, exploring the roles of Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor, and how they manifest in daily interactions.
- Empowerment through Shift: Learn to transition from these limiting roles to the empowering states of Voicing, Responsibility, and Potency within the Winner’s Triangle.
- Reflective Practice: Learn how to use strategies like perceptual positioning and scenario mapping to visualize and plan putting role shifts into practice.
- Optionally, longer sessions can involve interactive exercises to engage in hands-on practice for shifting roles, and/or discursive breakout groups to explore personal insights and strategies.
Benefits
- Enhanced Self-Awareness: Identify and reflect on your unwanted roles in interactions and learn strategies to shift towards more empowering behaviors.
- Improved Communication Skills: Cultivate the ability to articulate needs and boundaries clearly, assertively, and empathetically.
- Increased Resilience: Build mental agility by understanding and transforming relational dynamics, enhancing your adaptability in challenging situations.
- Stronger Team Connections: Foster empathy and mutual support within teams by adopting a shared framework for challenging conversations, improving overall cohesion.
- Personal Growth and Empowerment: Gain tools and insights that promote internal strength and confidence, helping you navigate both personal and professional landscapes with grace and poise.
Hosted by Caitlin McDonald
About the Host
My coaching helps people to find courage in the complicated: in a time of increasing volatility, we all need tools for surviving and thriving. Using a series of research-validated core competencies, coaching helps us become more of the selves that we want to be, more of the time. I am an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a trained Mental Health First Aider, which helps me point people in the right direction at the times they need it most. As a cancer survivor, I know deep in my bones how a catastrophe can transform into an opportunity to explore personal growth, uncovering hidden reserves of resilience and inner strength. I'm based in the vibrant neighbourhood of Leith in Edinburgh, whose crest featuring a ship of hope over the motto 'Persevere' has been a source of solace and solidarity for people living here since the 12th century. With a background as a technology strategist of 10+ years’ experience working with high-performing individuals and teams at globally recognised Fortune 250+ companies, national governments and intergovernmental organisations, I understand the pressures and complexities that leaders are facing in an increasingly fast-paced and fractious world. Through guided activities I offer individuals and teams the opportunity to top up resilience reserves and nourish inner courage. This empowers clients to find strength within themselves to approach every challenge with fortitude and joy. I am also an award-winning researcher for futures research and for creative industries innovation, and an artist whose work has been featured in several international art exhibitions.
Travel Locations
Willing to travel anywhere in the UK provided client reimburses travel expenses – agreed on a per-session basis at time of booking. Willing to travel anywhere in the world for longer programmes/retreats provided client reimburses travel expenses.
Certifications & Credentials
ICF ACC profile: https://www.coachingfederation.org.uk/find-coach/coach-detail/923 Oxygen indemnity insurance (certificate available on request.)
Focus Areas
Development/Coaching
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Languages
English
Corporate Experience
Moderate
Session Types Offered
Interactive (eg. improv, group-art, yoga etc.)
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Client Requirements
Microphone and projector for sessions exceeding 25 people; pens or coloured markers and paper for participants.
Past Clients
Wiley, The Outsiders (Outdoor Office Day), Yorkshire Festival of Story
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