Coaching practices for Pendulation with My Team
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- It’s the ordinary stuff that catches me off guard
- Whenever my team decides anything, the loudest or most senior person’s view just takes over the room and everyone quietly falls in line
- My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project
- The project is wrapping and everyone’s just drifting off to the next thing with no acknowledgment of what we built together
- People drop new "can you reprioritize this" requests on my team all week long and whoever asks loudest or latest wins
Practices that may help
- Pendulation, Made Practical
Pendulation is a Somatic Experiencing term for the deliberate oscillation between a difficult or activated body sensation and a neutral or comfortable resource — a place in the body that feels okay right now. Moving back and forth between the two, rather than staying fixed in the difficult sensation, trains the nervous system to tolerate distress in small doses and recover, gradually widening the window of tolerance. The approach is established clinical practice in SE; large RCT evidence specific to pendulation is limited. - Apply pendulation to everyday stress (not just trauma)
Pendulation works for any activated state — anxiety before a call, frustration during a project — not only clinical trauma.
Pendulation, Made Practical - Use structured team forecasting to aggregate diverse views
Combine independent estimates from multiple people before the group talks — aggregation beats any single expert.
Superforecasting - Map your team’s genius coverage
Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Adjourning: close the team with intention
How a team ends shapes how each member begins the next one.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams - Use the Johari Window in team settings
Apply the window at the team level to improve shared understanding and reduce inter-member blind spots.
The Johari Window - Use repeated pendulation to widen the window of tolerance
Over weeks of practice, pendulation expands the range of activation you can tolerate without tipping into flooding or shutdown.
Pendulation, Made Practical - Run a structured team morphological session
The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
Morphological Analysis, Made Practical - Use delegation as a development tool
Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
Related concerns
- Collective Results Team
Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
Align around collective results, not individual status
- The Artist S Way With My Team
Julia Cameron’s method treats creative block as something you clear with daily practice rather than wait out: free-writing three pages every morning, taking a weekly solo "artist date," and recovering a sense of play. The tools are practitioner methods refined over decades of teaching — largely anecdotal, though morning pages overlap with expressive-writing research that does have real support.
- Bowen Differentiation
Know clearly what you value, believe, and will not compromise — while remaining genuinely open to being changed by your partner.
Developing a solid but flexible self
- Cross Team Collaboration
Every team and department exists to support the others toward the same mission, not to win locally.
Cover and move (teamwork over silos)
- How To Pendulate
Pendulation is a Somatic Experiencing term for the deliberate oscillation between a difficult or activated body sensation and a neutral or comfortable resource — a place in the body that feels okay right now. Moving back and forth between the two, rather than staying fixed in the difficult sensation, trains the nervous system to tolerate distress in small doses and recover, gradually widening the window of tolerance. The approach is established clinical practice in SE; large RCT evidence specific to pendulation is limited.
- Inbox Zero With My Team
Inbox Zero is a workflow developed by Merlin Mann: treat your inbox as a temporary intake channel, not a to-do list or filing cabinet, by processing each message to a decision — delete, delegate, respond, defer, or do — and leaving the inbox empty. Whether it reliably reduces stress depends on pairing it with a real task system; without one, you are just moving anxiety.
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