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Our work owes a great intellectual debt to Louis Sander. Of his many publications, we were most influenced by the 1977 statement of his systems approach, where he suggested that “... organism, surround, and exchanges-between can be represented, or discussed, as a system... exchanges between interacting components in a system, through mutual modification, reach a harmonious coordination consistent with the conditions for enduring existence of each”.(p. 138). A fundamental aspect of Sander’s systems approach was his emphasis on timing as central to coordination:“... the domain of time and the temporal organization of events... provide the framework for... unscrambling the difficulties in conceptualizing the interface between two ongoing organizations”(p. 137). These two concepts, the systems approach, and the central importance of time in the coordination between two people, form the basis of work we present here.