Compass Learning Specialists, Sharla Steever and Scott Simpson, have written a new book, Relational Landscaping: The Human Terrain of Organizations.
In today’s fast-paced, results-driven environments, Relational Landscaping offers a timely and transformative invitation: tend to the human terrain. This book reimagines organizations not as static systems of policies and procedures, but as living ecosystems—dynamic, interdependent, and shaped by relationships. When we care for the soil of trust, vulnerability, and connection, the entire landscape of our work begins to flourish.
Structured in two parts—Cultivating the Ground and Reshaping the Garden—this book guides readers through foundational relational practices and the more complex terrain of organizational change, including staff transitions, team mergers, and cultural renewal. Drawing deeply from the CircleBridge framework and tools like the Circle of Trust® and Touchstones©, each chapter includes poetic openings, reflection prompts, and implementation invitations designed to make relational change not only possible—but sustainable.
