Coaches Rising 254 - Jill Nephew: Enhancing Human Sensemaking
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Aug 22, 2025 Jill Nephew, founder of Inquire, focuses on enhancing human sensemaking through innovative technology. She discusses the impact of AI on personal growth and the limitations of traditional coaching methods. The conversation dives into the transformative power of storytelling and the role of ecological intelligence in fostering deeper human connections. Jill emphasizes the importance of emulation over simulation, advocating for a holistic approach to coaching that adapts to modern challenges, particularly in the age of AI.
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Quaker Retreat Sparked The Project
- Jill describes attending a Quaker-led retreat that revealed deep, lifelong sensemaking in ordinary people.
- That experience inspired her to try to extract the facilitation patterns and spread them with technology.
Inquiry Can Be Algorithmic
- Inquiry practices can be algorithmic and thus reproducible if you find the right language patterns.
- Jill searched for repeatable verbal forms that reliably elicit memory and meaning without steering people into false narratives.
Most Conversation Uses Few Words
- Language has a small high-frequency core that carries most conversational structure.
- Jill used this to find and codify roughly 2,500 distinct facilitation 'forms' that map how to guide sensemaking.