Structures guiding your path - Metaphors in coaching
0 Likes, 0 Comments - Maria Sokolowska (@morningbluepage) on Instagram: "Continuing rivers as a metaphor for leaving home consider how your structures determine your path"
Watercolours by Toshio Shibata are a series of photographs of concrete structures guiding the path of water.
Following on from the short video discussing how a river can represent the path to “adulting” the use of structures along the course can allow further exploration of this journey.
It is interesting to compare the idea of control and guiding the flow of water. Where a water source choses its own path it will work towards that of least resistance, eroding or depositing banks along its journey. In this photograph the path is determined by structure. This may be to “tame” the flow of water and prevent damage downstream, to provide hydro power, or lakes for fishing or leisure.
Using the river as a metaphor, what structures have guided your path so far? Where they natural or man-made? What was their purpose?
The aim is to gain insight to where you are, so you can determine how you move forward.
“As we see water flowing across man-made landscapes, it becomes clear that it is an element never mastered, only danced with”
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