Cape Cod Model

The Cape Cod Model teaches tools that enable individuals to be more effective in work-ing one-on-one, in groups, and in organizational settings. Participants will learn to increase their impact and create positive change in all areas of life by applying basic principles and practices that reflect a powerful core methodology:

• Through an optimistic approach, people can be taught to develop
  and apply skills that enable them to work together to achieve
  productive and satisfying outcomes.
  
  
• The focus is on learning to recognize what happens among groups
  of people, not on understanding or labeling individuals. The goal
  is to perceive the system created when two or more people are
  interacting.

• The assumption that both individuals and groups are doing the
  best they can at any given time makes it possible to appreciate
  and articulate their strengths and what they are doing well.
  This supportive approach enables people to then discover
  impediments to their productivity and satisfaction.

• Influence is best directed toward enhancing awareness of how
  people relate to each other. To be influential requires developing
  awareness of our own patterns of relating; with this self-knowledge
  individuals can then use themselves authentically as instruments
  of change.

• By valuing multiple perspectives – or “multiple realities” – people
  can be taught how to minimize conflict by inviting differences and
  using them creatively.

• Behavior can be strategic, meant to achieve a goal, or intimate,
  intended to enhance connection among people. These ways
  of relating must be balanced differently in accordance with the
  nature and function of each relationship.

These skills are developed through detailed observation, ongoing practice, and feed-back from a supportive learning community, which the Cape Cod Training Program provides.

"The Cape Cod Model gave me a choerent, simple framework, almost a new aesthetic, through which to understand human intera-ctions. What I learned is a continued source of clarity about how we relate to each other."

Vanessa Grajwer

"The Cape Cod Model has helped me keep an optimistic attitude in a problem oriented environment. I am astonished at how much that helps."

Eva Axelsson