The Holding Systems™
THE HOLDING SYSTEM™
One Discipline.
Six Holding Systems.
The Holding Discipline™ becomes practical through six Holding Systems™.
Each system applies the Discipline to a different context in which capability, judgement, change, experience or contribution must continue to Hold.
You do not need to develop all six.
You can begin with the Holding System™ that is most relevant to what you are experiencing, developing or responsible for now.
Six contexts · One Discipline · Choose where you begin
PAGE GUIDE
Explore The Holding System.
Use the guide below to understand what a Holding System™ is, explore the six contextual expressions of The Holding Discipline™, see how the systems are developed, and decide where you may want to begin.
UNDERSTAND THE HOLDING SYSTEMS™
→ What Is A Holding Discipline™
→ What Is A Holding System™
→ Explore The Six Holding Systems™
→ One Discipline. Different Expressions.
→ Three Contextual Positions™
→ Six Dimensions™
UNDERSTAND HOW A HOLDING SYSTEM™ WORKS
→ What The Holding System™ Does
→ Seven Operating Environments™
→ Why Develop With The Holding Discipline™
→ How You Can Develop With The Holding Discipline™
UNDERSTAND THE PROFESSIONAL PATHWAY™
→ From Development To Professional Practice
→ Course vs Membership
→ Membership™
→ Grow With The Holding Discipline™
GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
WHAT IS THE HOLDING DISCIPLINE™?
The Holding Discipline™ Provides
A Way To Understand
What Must Hold.
The Holding Discipline™ is a framework for understanding human capability, judgement and development under changing contexts.
It begins with a simple observation:
Pressure does not necessarily reduce capability. It can reduce access to capability.
As circumstances change, something that matters may become harder to access, sustain, express or continue.
The Holding Discipline™ helps you understand what is happening, what is being affected, what must Hold, and how capability can remain connected to what matters as conditions change.
It is not a single course.
It is not limited to one context.
It is the wider Discipline
from which the Holding Systems™ emerge.
The Discipline provides the architecture.
The Systems provide the contextual application.
WHAT IS A HOLDING SYSTEM™?
A Holding System™ Turns
The Discipline Into A Contextual Practice.
The Holding Discipline™ is the wider constitutional architecture.
A Holding System™ applies that Discipline to a particular environment where something important must continue to Hold.
The context changes.
The pressure may change.
The responsibility may change.
What matters is what must continue to Hold.
A Holding System™ therefore does not attempt to freeze circumstances.
It helps you understand what is happening, what is being affected, and what allows something valuable to remain reliable as conditions change.
The Holding Discipline™
remains one.
Its expressions become many.
EXPLORE THE HOLDING SYSTEMS™
Six Holding Systems.
Six Contexts.
One Continuing Discipline.
The six Holding Systems™ allow The Holding Discipline™ to be understood and developed within different environments.
Choose the context that matters most to you now.
Six Holding Systems.
ACCESSIBILITY™
When capability becomes harder to access.
Understand how capability can become difficult to access under changing contexts and pressure.
LASTING CHANGE™
When meaningful change becomes harder to sustain.
Understand what allows meaningful change to continue Holding across changing circumstances.
INNOVATION™
When ideas must remain useful beyond the moment of creation.
Develop the capacity to create, judge and sustain innovation through uncertainty.
BUSINESS™
When growth and complexity test what the business can carry.
Understand how businesses can continue Holding under growth, complexity and changing conditions.
LEADERSHIP™
When responsibility and pressure test judgement.
Develop the capacity to lead with proportion when circumstances become complex.
EXPERIENCE™
When changing contexts test whether experience can remain useful.
Understand how experience can continue contributing even when its original context changes.
DEVELOP WITH THE HOLDING DISCIPLINE™?
Why Develop
With The Holding Discipline™?
You may begin because one situation matters to you now.
You may want to understand something that has become difficult to explain.
You may want to develop your ability to operate differently.
You may want to turn what you develop into useful contribution.
Or you may want to continue developing as your professional circumstances change.
The Holding Discipline™ gives you a continuing architecture for that development.
You do not have to know everything you will need in advance.
You only need an environment in which you can continue developing as new needs emerge.
One Discipline. A Continuing Development Path.
You can:
Learn.
Develop.
Apply.
Contribute.
Continue.
And, where the applicable requirements are met, develop toward professional practice.
THREE CONTEXTUAL POSITIONS™
Holding Changes
With Context.
The six Holding Systems™ are not six unrelated subjects.
They arise in different positions around changing circumstances.
Some questions emerge before a context fully changes.
Some arise while circumstances are changing.
And some emerge after the context in which capability was developed has changed.
These three contextual positions help explain why the six Holding Systems™ are different — while remaining part of one Discipline.
BEFORE CONTEXT
Accessibility™
When capability exists, but reliable access to it becomes difficult.
Accessibility™ explores what happens when changing conditions or pressure affect your ability to access the capability, judgement and perspective you already possess.
DURING CONTEXT
Four Holding Systems™ work primarily with what happens while circumstances are actively unfolding.
Lasting Change™
When meaningful change must continue as circumstances change.
Understand what allows meaningful change to remain stable beyond its initial movement.
Innovation™
When something new must remain useful through uncertainty.
Develop the capacity to create, judge and sustain innovation while conditions continue to change.
Business™
When growth and complexity test what the business can carry.
Understand how a business can continue Holding as growth, complexity and changing conditions increase.
Leadership™
When responsibility and pressure test judgement.
Develop the capacity to lead with proportion when circumstances become complex.
AFTER CONTEXT
Experience™
When the context that created experience has changed.
Experience™ explores how what you have learned can remain relevant and useful when the circumstances in which that experience was developed no longer exist in the same form.
Different contexts create different holding requirements.
The Discipline remains one.
Its expressions become many.
SIX DIMENSIONS™
Holding Is Never
One-Dimensional.
Different environments create different pressures.
The constitutional principles remain connected.
The application becomes different.
Accessibility™
Capability and access
When capability exists but reliable access to it becomes difficult.
Lasting Change™
Change and continuity
When meaningful change has begun but becomes harder to sustain.
Innovation™
Creation and usefulness
When something new must remain useful beyond the moment of creation.
Business™
Growth and viability
When growth, complexity and responsibility test whether the business can continue to carry what it has created.
Leadership™
Responsibility and judgement
When responsibility increases and pressure begins to affect judgement.
Experience™
Relevance and contribution
When experience remains valuable but its original context no longer exists.
You do not have to develop all six.=
You may begin with the environment that matters most to you now.
And, over time, another expression of Holding may become relevant.
WHAT THE HOLDING SYSTEM™ DOES
It Helps You Work With
What Must Continue To Hold.
A Holding System™ helps you move beyond simply recognising that something has changed.
It gives you a way to examine:
What is changing?
What is being affected?
What must Hold?
What conditions support it?
What needs to develop?
What needs to change?
What can continue?
The purpose is not perfect performance.
It is not the elimination of pressure.
It is not an attempt to control changing circumstances.
It is the development of a more reliable way of working with capability, judgement and contribution while life and conditions continue to change.
Principle
Holding is not about keeping circumstances still.
It is about remaining connected to what matters as circumstances move.
THE HOLDING JOURNEY™
One Holding System.
Seven Operating Environments.
Each Holding System™ can be developed through a continuing set of environments.
These are not seven unrelated products.
They are seven environments within one continuing Holding journey.
SEVEN OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS™
RESTORE HOLDING
01 — RECOGNITION™
See what is happening.
Recognition makes what may otherwise remain difficult to explain visible.
It helps you see where something important may be beginning to weaken before you decide what to do about it.
02 — FOUNDATION™
Understand the System.
Foundation develops constitutional understanding.
You explore what influences the system, what allows it to remain stable, and what must Hold.
03 — DEEP APPLICATION™
Develop Operational Capability.
Deep Application moves beyond understanding into structured application.
You develop the ability to operate with the System while conditions are actually changing.
EXPRESS HOLDING
04 — GROW & HOLD™
Expression for Self.
Grow & Hold™ applies The Holding Discipline™ to your responsibilities, ambitions, commitments and circumstances.
It develops the capacity to carry what growth introduces as life and work continue to change.
05 — CONTRIBUTION™
Make What You Develop Useful To Others.
Contribution develops the ability to turn what you have developed into something genuinely useful, appropriate and responsible.
06 — HOLDING CIRCLE™
Continue Developing Within The Holding Discipline™.
Holding Circle™ provides the continuing professional environment for practice, recalibration, contribution, stewardship and further development.
It is also the environment in which you can help others develop Holding.
APPLY HOLDING
07 — PRECISION INTERVENTION™
Give Focused Attention To What Requires It.
Precision Intervention™ is a focused one-to-one professional intervention for a situation that requires concentrated attention.
It is independently accessible before, during or after engagement with any
other environment.
It is not a compulsory final stage.
You can enter the journey where it is relevant.
You do not have to know the entire journey before you begin.
WHY DEVELOP WITH THE HOLDING DISCIPLINE™?
One Discipline.
A Continuing Development Path.
You may begin because one situation matters to you now.
You may want to understand something that has become difficult to explain.
You may want to develop your ability to operate differently.
You may want to turn what you develop into useful contribution.
Or you may want to continue developing as your professional circumstances change.
The Holding Discipline™ gives you a continuing architecture for that development.
You do not have to know everything you will need in advance.
You only need an environment in which you can continue developing as new needs emerge.
One Discipline. A Continuing Development Path.
You can:
Learn.
Develop.
Apply.
Contribute.
Continue.
And, where the applicable requirements are met, develop toward professional practice.
HOW CAN YOU DEVELOP WITH THE HOLDING DISCIPLINE™
You Can Begin At The Level
That Matches Your Purpose.
READ
Explore the seven books and develop the language and constitutional understanding of The Holding Discipline™.
RECOGNISE
Use Recognition™ and The Holding Index™ to see what may require attention.
LEARN
Begin with Foundation™ when you want to understand a Holding System.
DEVELOP
Move into Deep Application™ when you want to develop operational capability.
CONTRIBUTE
Develop what you have learned into something useful to others.
STAY CONNECTED
Develop and grow in the Holding Environment. Help others in Holding.
CONTINUE
Remain connected through Membership and the wider professional environment.
FOCUS
When a specific situation requires concentrated attention, Precision Intervention™ provides a focused professional environment.
FROM DEVELOPMENT TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Capability Can Become
Professional Contribution.
The Holding Discipline™ provides a pathway through which development can become demonstrated capability and, where applicable, authorised professional practice.
The pathway
LEARN
↓
DEVELOP
↓
DEMONSTRATE
↓
CERTIFY
↓
LICENSE
↓
DEPLOY
↓
CONTRIBUTE
The distinctions matter.
Certification™
Recognises demonstrated capability.
Membership™
Provides the continuing professional environment in which development, participation and applicable professional opportunities continue.
Licensing™
Establishes professional authority.
Licensed Assets™
Provide authorised professional assets within the applicable licence scope.
Governance™
Protects the integrity of the system and the conditions under which professional deployment operates.
Important
A valid corresponding Certification + Valid License are required to start Licensed Professional Services.
The corresponding Membership must remain active to operate the professional licence.
COURSE VS MEMBERSHIP
One Course.
Or A Wider Development Path?
You do not need Membership to learn.
You can simply choose the course that is relevant to what you want to develop.
COURSE
Choose a course when you want to develop a particular Holding System™.
You learn at your own pace.
Your course access remains available for life.
You can return whenever your circumstances, responsibilities or context change.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership is different.
It is a continuing professional environment within The Holding Discipline™.
It brings together the applicable learning, professional development, participation opportunities, benefits and progression associated with your Membership level.
Principle
The course gives you what you have received.
Membership keeps you connected to what comes next.
MEMBERSHIP™
A Continuing
Professional Environment.
Membership is taken and renewed annually for the environment it provides for continuing development.
The Holding Discipline™ Membership provides a pathway to participate, develop professional capability and, where applicable, access Business Partner opportunities and progressively build professional opportunity.
Your Membership level determines the corresponding professional access available to you, including licensed assets and Licensing eligibility where applicable.
Professional Membership is annual. Member-Partner™ is a one-time lifetime registration.
Membership is not simply a way to purchase more courses.
It is an annual continuation of a professional relationship within The Holding Discipline™.
Your Membership level determines the applicable learning access, professional environment, benefits, participation opportunities and other opportunities available to you.
FIVE MEMBERSHIP LEVELS
LEVEL 00 – MEMBER-PARTNER™
Enter the Holding Discipline™
Ecosystem.
A one-time lifetime registration for those who want to experience the Discipline from inside and participate in the applicable Member-Partner™ opportunity.
Courses Bundled With Membership
The Professional Diagnostic
Value — ₹1,999
Your Investment in Membership
₹1,499 — One-Time
LEVEL 01 – PRACTITIONER MEMBER™
Begin
Your Professional Development.
For those ready to develop within The Holding Discipline™ and begin building toward professional practice.
Courses Bundled With Membership
The Professional Diagnostic
Value — ₹1,999
One Foundation Course of Your Choice
Value — ₹3,999
One Deep Application Course of Your Choice
Value — ₹14,999
Total Value of Courses
₹20,997
Your Investment in Membership
₹19,999 / Year
After payment, you will receive a selection form to choose your courses.
LEVEL 02 – COACH MEMBER™
Develop
Deeper Capability.
For those who want to deepen their development and move further into professional application.
Courses Bundled With Membership
The Professional Diagnostic
Value — ₹1,999
Two Foundation Courses of Your Choice
Value — ₹7,998
Two Deep Application Courses of Your Choice
Value — ₹29,998
Total Value of Courses
₹39,995
Your Investment in Membership
₹39,999 / Year
After payment, you will receive a selection form to choose your courses.
LEVEL 03 – PROFESSIONAL MEMBER™
Build
Toward Professional Practice.
For those pursuing a more substantial professional pathway within The Holding Discipline™.
Courses Bundled With Membership
The Professional Diagnostic
Value — ₹1,999
All Six Foundation Courses
Value — ₹23,994
All Six Deep Application Courses
Value — ₹89,994
Total Value of Courses
₹1,15,987
Your Investment in Membership
₹59,999 / Year
LEVEL 04 – HOLDING CIRCLE™
Participate
at the Broadest Professional Level.
For those ready for the most comprehensive Membership environment and the broadest professional pathway.
Courses Bundled With Membership
The Professional Diagnostic
Value — ₹1,999
All Six Foundation Courses
Value — ₹23,994
All Six Deep Application Courses
Value — ₹89,994
The Contribution Holding System™
Value — ₹44,999
Precision Intervention
One Session — 90 Minutes
Value — ₹29,999
Total Value of Courses + Included Intervention
₹1,90,985
Your Investment in Membership
₹99,999 / Year
Want to Understand the Full Benefits of Membership?
YOUR DEVELOPMENT CAN CONTINUE
Begin With One Holding System.
Discover What Becomes Relevant Next.
Over time, another context may become important.
Your development does not have to remain limited to the first environment you entered.
You may discover that Accessibility becomes relevant to your leadership.
That Lasting Change becomes relevant to your business.
That Innovation becomes relevant to your contribution.
That Experience becomes relevant to your next stage of professional life.
The Holding Discipline™ gives you a wider architecture within which these different expressions can remain connected.
Principle
The discipline remains one.
Its expressions become many.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Everything You May Be Wondering.
Find answers to the most common questions about The Holding System™.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Where Do You Want To Begin?
I WANT TO EXPLORE
A HOLDING SYSTEM
Explore the six contextual expressions of The Holding Discipline™.
I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE DISCIPLINE
Explore the seven books and the constitutional architecture behind the Holding Systems™.
I WANT TO DEVELOP
Choose Foundation™ or Deep Application™ according to what you want to develop.
I WANT TO DEVELOP WITH THE HOLDING DISCIPLINE™
Explore Membership and the continuing professional environment.
I WANT TO BUILD TOWARD PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Understand the pathway from capability to authorised professional practice.
Explore Professional Pathway™ →
I NEED FOCUSED ATTENTION
Explore Precision Intervention™ when a specific situation requires concentrated professional attention.
Explore Precision Intervention™ →
You do not have to know the entire journey before you begin.
Begin where what matters most needs to Hold.
The discipline remains one.
Its expressions become many.The Holding Discipline™ provides the architecture.
The Holding Systems™ provide the application.— The Holding Discipline™