Paradigm Coaching
Performance and Life Coaching for Women
Paradigm = a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind

Paradigm paralysis = inability or refusal to see beyond the current models of thinking

Excerpt from Wikipedia definition:

    Another use of the word paradigm is in the sense of Weltanschauung (German for world
    view). For example, in social science, the term is used to describe the set of experiences,
    beliefs and values that affect the way an individual perceives reality and responds to
    that perception. Social scientists have adopted the Kuhnian phrase "paradigm shift" to
    denote a change in how a given society goes about organizing and understanding
    reality. A “dominant paradigm” refers to the values, or system of thought, in a society
    that are most standard and widely held at a given time. Dominant paradigms are shaped
    both by the community’s cultural background and by the context of the historical
    moment. The following are conditions that facilitate a system of thought to become an
    accepted dominant paradigm:

  • Professional organizations that give legitimacy to the paradigm
  • Dynamic leaders who introduce and purport the paradigm
  • Journals and editors who write about the system of thought. They both
    disseminate the information essential to the paradigm and give the paradigm
    legitimacy
  • Government agencies who give credence to the paradigm
  • Educators who propagate the paradigm’s ideas by teaching it to students
  • Conferences conducted that are devoted to discussing ideas central to the
    paradigm
  • Media coverage
  • Lay groups, or groups based around the concerns of lay persons, that embrace
    the beliefs central to the paradigm
  • Sources of funding to further research on the paradigm

    The word paradigm is also still used to indicate a pattern or model or an outstandingly
    clear or typical example or archetype.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them.   --Albert Einstein
LP Consulting
Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside,
Southern California, USA

Paradigm Coaching
National Professional

(805) 798-2835
laura@creatingclaritynow.com
What is a Paradigm?
Laura Piening     LP Consulting     Telephone: (805) 798-2835      Email: laura@creatingclaritynow.com
DO YOU SUFFER FROM PARADIGM PARALYSIS?

(The following are excerpts from a presentation made by John C. Harrison, Program Director of
the National Stuttering Project, at the First World Congress on Fluency Disorders.  The
Congress was sponsored by the International Fluency Association and held in Munich,
Germany on August 1-5, 1994)

    As you probably know, a paradigm is a model or a pattern.  It's a shared set of
    assumptions that have to do with how we perceive the world.  Paradigms are very
    helpful because they allow us to develop expectations about what will probably occur
    based on these assumptions.  But when data falls outside our paradigm, we find it hard
    to see and accept.  This is called the PARADIGM EFFECT.  And when the paradigm effect
    is so strong that we are prevented from actually seeing what is under our very noses,
    we are said to be suffering from paradigm paralysis.

    In his book, Paradigms: the Business of Discovering the Future, Joel Barker
    describes how the person who develops a new paradigm is often an outsider.  Someone
    who really doesn't understand the prevailing paradigm in all its subtleties...and
    sometimes doesn't understand it at all.  The PARADIGM SHIFTER, because he or she is
    not imbued with the prevailing  beliefs, is able to see the situation with a fresh eye.

    To really make the creative breakthroughs, you . .  need to observe with a blank
    mind.  Without expectations.