21/04/2026
Five years running the same workshop and I still leave with more questions than answers. Which I guess is the point.
This is my fifth year co-facilitating Interpersonal Dynamics at Cambridge Judge Business School's eMACC programme (I still pinch myself just to be sure it's real). Every cohort humbles me in a new way.
It's hard to explain what we really do in this module. No slides or clear content. No right or wrong answers. The people in the room are the content and the workshop follows their pace: going as deep as they want to go. It's experiential, messy, and emergent. We don't always quite know what we will cover and adjust the design at the end of each day.
And because it's adult learning- people take what they're ready and willing to take. We can design the container but we cannot control what chooses to emerge. (The control freak in me finds this really hard.)
The tension I have to hold is ultimately- how much work should I do for the group? Do I name what I see moving in the room, or do I hold back and let them see it themselves? And if they don't find it — is that ok for me?
The astrology of those few days was absolutely repeating these familiar tensions. Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Mercury, Moon- all piling into Aries, all conjuncting my Moon in Aries. You have no idea how many times I really want to jump in- but because the transits also square my Capricorn and Cancer placements, I felt like I needed to hold and let the room figure it out on its own.
This year I was definitely a lot sharper. I've done five group work containers over the last twelve months and that gave me eyes I didn't have. I could see more and name what was previously unnameable.
And still, that question remains.
Five years in, and I still don't have the answer. I guess, steeping in this ambivalent ambiguous unknown is the work.
