About Zam
Hello and welcome,
Nancy Zamierowski, aka Zam
Terms + FAQ
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Experiential Learning is the process of learning by doing. By engaging in hands-on and embodied experiences and reflection, I offer ways to connect and bridge knowledge and concepts to applied situations.
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Compassionate Inquiry (CI) is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Mate, author and expert on trauma, stress, addiction, and childhood development. The CI approach explores the root of an issue or the stories that people may be telling themselves. Using the Compassionate Inquiry system, both the individual and therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories, and body states that words both express and conceal. Read more.
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Systems sensing (Ritter & Zamierowski, 2021) can be a navigational tool to engage with uncertainty and create awareness of the relational dynamics with the people and context involved. By using creative, embodied, and intuitive ways of knowing, participants of the practice learn from the “deeper wisdom of a system that is often hidden from view” and gain new insights into relationships and dynamics within their system, be it an organization, a project, network, or other. Systems sensing is informed by the interdisciplinary field of systems thinking (Meadows, 2008; Senge et al., 2004), which involves mapping how a system’s parts interrelate and how a system functions over time and within the context of larger systems. Systems sensing adds a dimensionality of the felt senses to a visual map of diverse elements and interactive relationships.
https://jabsc.org/index.php/jabsc/article/view/1181
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I refer to transformational or experiential maps as the visual representation and result of tracking and recording a series of experiences. Experiences can include “places” one visits on a journey or elements of a given system such as people, places, emotions, qualities, or aspects of a situation. Mapping experiences can be a useful tool for reflection, learning, and integration.
I assist leaders and teams to masterfully navigate and catalyze transformative change in their spheres of influence. Our work together invites experiential and transformational learning, where a commitment to discovery calls forth the space of the unknown, unveiling its vast potential. As a steady guide, I know that my work is a dance: to surface bright and hidden value, creative and energetic forces, and awareness of what is and what might want to emerge.
I bring curiosity and compassion as preconditions to begin any journey. I invite you to listen more deeply, and in new ways, with all your forms of knowing and relating. As you attune to new signals, trust and capacity build along the way. I support empowering your unique leadership style so you can experience meaningful change and better results.
If I appear steady and steadfast to others, it's because it's been earned through adversity; navigating health challenges and leading social enterprises, I've encountered the peaks and valleys of a difficult path. Over the years, I’ve acquired practical tools for turbulent times, in shifting conditions. I noticed an inner and outer pattern where I often personally faced and moved through the very patterns my work aimed to address. As I healed and changed, so did dynamics at play in my work in the world. Often shifting “the how” I was working or perceiving made the difference. For example, roadblocks became prompts for me to discover a more aligned path, or by slowing down, my cells and the patterns could fully shift.
I bring humility and confidence to my work, walking alongside people committed to doing things differently — investigating and challenging what is no longer working. Collaborations with brilliant, often marginalized healers, farmers, artists, and social entrepreneurs have taught me how individual and interpersonal capacities influence how we shape our collective future.
My coaching and work is informed by a range of awareness-based practices and approaches — from Systemic Constellations, systems sensing, and Compassionate Inquiry to Internal Family Systems (IFS)— to help discover wider ways of knowing and exploring parts that are often hidden or unconscious, reconnecting us to the potential that is waiting to be recognized and activated.
My clients are leaders, career changers, social entrepreneurs, artists, and movement builders who are committed to creating a thriving, just, and meaningful world that works for everyone.
Sometimes, my clients work with me for a short time, and sometimes, I have clients who work with me for years through different iterations of change and transformation.
Whatever our experience or journey together, I look forward to the shared discovery.
With care and excitement,
Nancy Zamierowski, aka “Zam”

My iceberg model: Key events, processes, values
Key events + work highlights
Co-steward of Collective Transitions (Current)
Co-founder of two social enterprises (2012-2019)
1. An online marketing and sustainability platform for cacao farmers. Later, it partnered with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
2. A nonprofit to support the conservation of forest frontiers with projects in Peru and Uganda.
Creative storyteller and video editor in creative agencies (2000-2011)
Education, training, and practices
Ph.D. student at CIIS, Transformative Studies, (current)
MBA in Sustainable Systems, Pinchot University/ Presidio University
Coaching, Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with ICF
Compassionate Inquiry: The approach informs my work after completing the 330-hour professional training.
Systemic constellations facilitator
Systems sensing: field steward and facilitator
Values
Foundational: Curiosity and creativity
Evolutionary: Learning, play, and innovation
Actualization: Connection and health
Collaborators and contributors
I collaborate with a network of other practitioners and organizations, whose work and efforts contribute to thought leadership, cases, and examples on this site.
Most notably, the articulation, practice, and learning of systemic constellations and systems sensing are informed by my work with Collective Transitions, including its research and community of practice, which I co-stewarded with Luea Ritter for 4 years. Additional contributors and support to articles, book contributions, and research include Justus Wachs, Eva Pomery and JASCB, Hilary Bradbury, and the AR+ community.
With Luea Ritter @ COP in Egypt