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1:1 Walk-Through
A private 90 minutes to map the system you work in — with the author of the Canvas, one to one.
A private 90 minutes to map the system you work in — with the author of the Canvas, one to one.
The 1:1 Walk-Through is a private 90-minute session with Victor Nuñez, author of Emergent Systems Thinking and Authentic Practice with Right Attention and developer of the Living Enterprise Canvas. One person, one Canvas, one system.
The Walk-Through uses the same Canvas as Open Canvas — the nine zones, the three properties of a living system — but in a different format. There are no other teams in the room. The conversation moves at the pace of one person thinking about their own system. The session goes deeper into one Canvas than the group format allows.
Not coaching, not consulting, not therapy. It is one person mapping their system, with someone alongside them who knows the Canvas thoroughly and can hold the room while the work happens.
The Walk-Through is most useful for individuals working at a level of responsibility where the system they're trying to see is large, complex, or particularly contested in their own mind.
When the system you lead is too large to see from any one position, and the act of describing it to someone outside it begins to clarify what's there.
When you're holding a client engagement and want to think through what you're seeing — privately, without bringing client material into a group setting.
What the company produces, as distinct from what you intended it to produce. The gap is often larger than anyone inside the company can see.
Bringing your own observations rather than the team's, and going deeper into questions that surfaced but couldn't be explored in the group session.
The session opens with the person describing the system they want to map. This isn't a briefing — it's the start of the work. The act of describing the system to someone outside it begins to clarify what's there.
The Canvas is then mapped, zone by zone, together. The person does the mapping; Victor holds the structure and asks the questions that move attention to where it needs to go. Some zones fill quickly. Some stay blank for a long time.
The closing portion of the session reads what the Canvas now shows. Patterns across zones. What the system seems to be doing, regardless of stated intent. Where the energy is, where it isn't. What the Canvas is asking the person to attend to next.
The session ends with the person holding their own Canvas — a map of their system made by them, in conversation with the framework. They can return to it. The Canvas becomes a working document for their own continued observation.
Open Canvas brings three teams into one room. The contrast across teams sharpens what each team sees. The format works because the cross-team comparison reveals what's invisible from inside any single team's mapping.
The Walk-Through serves a different need. It is for the person whose system is too specific, too senior, or too sensitive for a group setting. A founder mapping their company can't do that work alongside two other teams in a public Zoom. A practitioner thinking through a client engagement they're holding can't bring that material into a room with other teams. A leader working out what they themselves contribute to the patterns they're trying to change needs privacy for the question to be real.
The Walk-Through holds the same Canvas, the same framework, the same disciplined attention — but in a room where the person can think aloud without performing for others.
Unlike Open Canvas, which is part of a regular published schedule, the Walk-Through is held by Victor personally and is not scheduled in advance. Sessions are arranged through enquiry, with timing agreed between Victor and the person attending. There are no fixed slots.
This is deliberate. The Walk-Through is a mentoring engagement, not a workshop product. It works because the person attending has the full attention of the author for 90 minutes, in a session held when both are ready for it.
The session runs for 90 minutes, on Zoom. Mapping happens in Mural, on a private board accessible only to the person attending and to Victor. The board remains accessible to the person afterwards.
No preparation is required. The person arrives with the system they want to map, in whatever form it currently exists in their thinking. Pre-work would shape the session in ways that compromise what the Walk-Through is for.
Pricing is on request and depends on context. For independent practitioners, the rate is different from the rate for senior corporate leaders or organisations. The conversation about pricing is part of the initial enquiry.
The Walk-Through is grounded in Emergent Systems Thinking and Authentic Practice with Right Attention, a primer for systems work by Victor Nuñez. The Living Enterprise Canvas is one of the tools developed from that framework.
For practitioners who want to learn to hold the Canvas themselves — to use it with their own clients or with the systems they lead — the practitioner training opens in late 2026 with CCE accreditation.
The 1:1 Walk-Through is held quietly, not advertised. If this feels like the format you need, enquire directly at registration@emergententerprise.partners.
In your message, describe briefly: who you are, what kind of system you want to map, and why a 1:1 format rather than the group Open Canvas. The reply will arrange a brief conversation before the session itself, so that the 90 minutes can be spent on the work and not on context-setting.
© Victor Nuñez. The 1:1 Walk-Through is a mentoring engagement of Emergent Enterprise, grounded in Emergent Systems Thinking and Authentic Practice with Right Attention.
The Living Enterprise Canvas is a trademarked tool of Emergent Enterprise Partners.