№ 01 · composed practice
Bricolas is composed practice—
Moves drawn from a wide repertoire of frameworks, designed for this team, this leader, this room as it actually is.
The work travels across executive coaching, team development, supervision, and mentor coaching. What gets composed is what fits.
stimulus —
A leader speaks.
A team stalls.
A pattern repeats.
A team stalls.
A pattern repeats.
the pause —
What is this moment asking for?
response —
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naming what's underneath
Saying aloud what the room has been carrying silently.
02
asking what wasn't asked
Surfacing the question hiding under the question.
03
choosing the next move
Moving from what the pause revealed, not the reflex it interrupted.
Moves drawn from a wide repertoire of frameworks, designed for this team, this leader, this room as it actually is.
The work travels across executive coaching, team development, supervision, and mentor coaching. What gets composed is what fits.
stimulus —
A leader speaks.
A team stalls.
A pattern repeats.
A team stalls.
A pattern repeats.
the pause —
What is this moment asking for?
response —
01
naming what's underneath
Saying aloud what the room has been carrying silently.
02
asking what wasn't asked
Surfacing the question hiding under the question.
03
choosing the next move
Moving from what the pause revealed, not the reflex it interrupted.
№ 02 · the work
Four doors. One practice.
Each surface is the same composing — different audiences, different rooms, the same discipline of choosing the move that fits.
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Coaching
The work between what you say and what's actually wanting attention.
Senior leaders, partners, founders.
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Teams
The work the team is solving for versus what they say they're working on.
CHROs, CLOs, senior leaders.
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Supervision
What the room is actually showing you, beneath what's been named.
Coaches, consultants, internal L&D.
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Mentor coaching
Recording-based work against the ICF Core Competencies — as working language, not checklist.
ICF credential candidates (ACC, PCC).
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№ 03 · the practice, named
The practice, named.
Bricolas is the boutique practice of John Weng — coach, supervisor, leadership development practitioner. Sixteen years across the field. Eight years in the practice that became Bricolas. PhD Leadership Studies, ICF PCC, ICF ACTC.
The name carries three meanings. Bricolage — making whole from what's at hand. Bricola — the painted poles in the Venetian lagoon that mark passage through what's underneath. Bricoler — to tinker, to play, to make. The practice runs on all three.
More about the practice№ 04 · notes
Occasional. No schedule.
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Apr 27, 2026
We use em-dashes — Welcome to Bricolas
Why the em-dash got the AI tell association — and what it actually does in editorial writing.
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Apr 27, 2026
Getting your AI to sound like you
Why prompting at the abstraction layer doesn't work, and what corpus-grounding actually requires.
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Apr 27, 2026
The ICF rolls out MCS and CSS — three implications, depending on where you sit
What the new MCS and CSS specializations actually change — three implications, and a coach's read on the developmental view.
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