Cape Cod Model

The Cape Cod Model teaches tools that enable individuals to be more
effective in working 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 feedback 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 interactions. 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