Satir: Temperature reading

Temperature Readings can facilitate congruent communication and assists individuals in becoming more open. In our experience temperature readings work well for:

• Discussing that which is human in all of us and hardly ever gets talked about directly
• Making human contact with (new) members in a group
• Facilitating connection and bonding between group members
• Making the covert more overt
• Assessing emotional climate
• Demonstrating individual and group processes are valued
• Detoxifying and transforming toxic situations early
• Transforming closed systems in open systems
• Maintaining open systems
• Raise self-esteem
• Changing rules, values and patterns of communication

In general, Temperature Readings legitimize our whole human being, and support healthy group processes.

A temperature reading consists of five parts that can easily be recognized as "natural". Set the context properly, and as facilitator you can probably lean back:

• Appreciations
• Complaints with recommendations for change
• Puzzles, Gossip and Rumors
• New Information
• Hopes and Wishes

For an impression of a "life" Satir temperature reading in "action", go here