The Peer Tree

The Peer Tree can be viewed both as a way of progressing towards becoming a qualified Peer Coach, and as a reflection of the life journey, or the stages/elements it is necessary to engage with in order to become Adept in life.

Here, you will find the brief descriptions of each element of the the Peer Tree, and the extended paper can be found on Researchgate here (TBC)

 

Solidity

This is the quality of being, calm, confident, capable, and able to take good care of yourself and have the spare resources & capacity to help others

Mutuality

This is the process of sharing fairly, not necessarily equally, but with reciprocity so that all parties feel that they have gained a developmental and growth benefit

Purposefulness

This is a sense of why we continue to progress. It can be a sense of desire, meaning, success or a sense of caring for what you do or who matters to you.

Inter-View

This is the concept of how you relate to others, the assumptions that you make about individuals, family, social groups, and the organisations that we work with, for or rely upon.

Self-View

This is the concept, rules, values, principles and beliefs by which we decide how we will think, feel and respond to the tensions that act on our life 

Life-View

This is now we narrate and explain the ways in which life makes good sense to us and how we integrate the Inter & Self views, and feel confident in making good decisions

Co-Operation

This is about how we explain, offer up, and apply our resources, competencies and spare capacity to enable our peers to plan, set goals and be successful

Co-Education

This is about how we lead ourselves and each other out and into new areas and experiences that may be challenging, stretching and may feel beyond our peer’s current frame of reference

Co-Action

This concerns applying our coaching and emotional management support skills to support our peers build the confidence to build hypothesis, take action and feel resilient in moving past failures.

Co-Reflection

This is the process of supporting a peer to consider what they have done, what they are doing and what they are planning to do, so that they can prepare to do even better.

Co-Progression

This is the focus on accountability, which is a review of the results, an audit and log of the lessons learned, and an agreement of what the new goals or even shaped purpose is.

ADEPTION

This is the seamless process by which the peer can integrate all of the tree elements and respond effectively to the tensions of living.