Coaching practices for Shadow Work with My Team

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Our team has patterns that everyone outside us seems to see clearly while none of us inside it can
• The long-term work my team needs
• There’s one thing about me I spend enormous energy denying
• There’s real friction on my team
• My team goes quiet whenever something’s unclear, like asking a question would expose them

Practices that may help

1. Shadow Work
   Shadow work is the process of becoming aware of — and integrating — the parts of yourself you have disowned, suppressed, or never examined: the traits, impulses, and capabilities you hide from others and from yourself. Rooted in Jungian psychology, it is a clinically used framework rather than a rigorously trialed intervention; the mechanistic rationale is strong and aligns with modern emotion regulation and self-concept research.
2. 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
3. Protect important-not-urgent work as a team commitment
   Schedule Q2 work on a shared calendar so urgent tasks can’t claim it by default.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
4. The integration letter to a disowned part
   Write directly to the trait, impulse, or capacity you most want to disown — then listen for its response.
   Shadow Work
5. Storming: name the conflict without taking sides
   Surface the tension that’s already there rather than managing it away.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
6. Frame the work as a learning problem, not an execution problem
   Name the uncertainty and interdependence out loud so people expect to learn, not just deliver.
   Psychological Safety, Made Practical
7. Combine the pre-mortem with red team pressure
   Run a pre-mortem and then ask the red team to find the failure mode the team missed.
   Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail
8. 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)
9. Adjourning: close the team with intention
   How a team ends shapes how each member begins the next one.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
10. Run a regular team elimination review
    Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
    The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams

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