What does the polystatic model offer as a way to guide this coaching process? And what else can be derived from the analyses offered in this set of essays for those engaged in professional coaching?

I turn first to Emotions and then to the closely related matter of neurobiology and self-organizing systems as they impact the polystatic process of anticipation. Our emotions constitute the element in the “polystatic” process that provides most of the energy and some of the information needed to engage this dynamic, adaptive psychic process.

This essay concerns the ways in which, as a coach, we can influence the cognition and behavior related to the polystatic-based anticipation process. A summary of this process is also provided.

This essay focuses on what might be titled the psychology of anticipation. This psychology, in turn, is founded on an important newly identified biopsychosocial function that I have called Polystasis. I propose that this function plays a central role in the decisions our clients make and the actions they take.

We are now ready to begin identifying ways in which to best manage polarities associated with Trust. Barry Johnson writes about the “optimization” of polarities.

I focus in this essay on the ways in which turbulence can be transformed to engagement, and contradiction can be transformed to integration.

A reflection on the nature of Essence and ways in which Volatility is transformed to recognition of patterns, uncertainty is transformed to maintenance of patterns, complexity is transformed to emergent self-organization, and ambiguity is transformed to Illumination.

Ways in which complexity is transformed to enablement, ambiguity is transformed into an appreciation of perspective, and turbulence is transformed to learning and contradiction is transformed to prioritization

In this essay and the next three, I introduce an even more diverse set of strategies and tactics which I believe provide a viable alternative to Serenity as a way in which to cope with pressing VUCA-Plus issues.