S:DISS-X Practical 7

“Moving With the Inquiry”

---

Practical 7 — Words of Wisdom

My “words of wisdom” before Practical 7 would be these:
Do not try to top the prior sessions. Complete the arc.

Practical 7 should not introduce a brand-new mountain of theory. It should help the advanced series land. The first six demos have already surfaced enough: signal, readiness, constraint, leverage, usefulness, interpretation, humaning, pressure, restraint, and RightACTION. The seventh should show whether the system can close cleanly without forcing a grand conclusion.

The cleanest frame for Practical 7 may be:

What has this series taught us about the helper before the help?

Or even smaller:

What needs to be protected before helping begins?

That would let the final advanced demo integrate the last two sessions without becoming too abstract.

I would also carry these guardrails into Practical 7:

1. Stay close to the user’s exact language.
2. Avoid interpreting unless the interaction explicitly calls for it.
3. Watch whether helping becomes pressure.
4. Let “humaning” remain a governing lens, not a slogan.
5. Close the advanced series with restraint, not with completeness.

The most important TPOV from Practical 5–6 may be:

The helper’s motive to help must itself become visible.

That is where S:DISS-X becomes more than a set of inquiry forms. It becomes a discipline for regulating the helper’s influence so the person being helped can remain the center of the work.

For Practical 7, I would aim for a clean closing insight like this:

S:DISS-X does not begin with the question. It begins with the helper noticing what is already influencing the question.

Notice: To pre-order a copy of Mike’s latest book mentioned in some of his posts in e-book format for $9.97 (available late 2026), visit HERE to be first in line.

Mike R. Jay is a developmentalist utilizing consulting, coaching, advising and helping… emergent from dynamic inquiry as a means to cue, scaffold, support, lift, and protect; offering inspiration to aspiring leaders who are interested in humaning where being, doing, having, becoming, contributing, relating, guiding to produce resilience and wellth help people lead generative lives.