Accompaniment

Walking Alongside an Organizational Journey

Accompaniment: Walking Alongside an Organizational Journey
“When we’re side by side, we feel and we sense a presence - the sensation of the embodiment of solidarity.”

We’re gonna jump into this topic of accompaniment today. And I am absolutely honored to have been asked to give some reflections on my own personal journey with this process. I think accompaniment is absolutely key, but it opens up a less visible aspect of our day-to-day work, precisely because I think it mostly evolves in our relational space. It’s somewhere in what we feel – the quality of presence that we feel – and how we choose to embody that with each other and with our partners.

So, to fully understand that, we really have to understand that we’re embarking on a journey that at once explores the personal, the relational, and the organizational.

Lederach, John Paul. “Accompaniment: Walking Alongside an Organizational Journey.” Video Recording, 2023.

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