Post on 07-Jan-2017
Confronting our stereotypes & mental
models:
Increasing community capacity through
creation of safe space & dialogue
SawubonaIs a Zulu greeting Sawubona ("I see you") is an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence.
Who Am I?• Who did you think I was when you first saw me?
• Your first impressions???
• I AM!!!
• Were you correct???
The Ladder of InferenceOur mental models are the assumptions and beliefs that arise from our everyday experience and our cultural context
I take actions based on my beliefs
I adopt beliefs about the world
I draw conclusions
I make assumptions based on the meanings I added
I add meanings (cultural and personal)
I select data from what I observe
Observable data and experiences (as a camcorder would capture it)
The ladder of inference is a framework and tool for reflecting on our process of creating mental models
My beliefs shape the data I select in the future
Our ability to learn and work together is limited by our feelings that:
- Our beliefs are the truth
- The truth is obvious
- Our beliefs are based on real data
- The data we select are the real data
From The Fifth Discipline Field Book, Senge et al.
World View ActionsMethods/
Practices
Our Worldview Influences the Actions We Take
Methods are the Bridge Between View and Actions
Wold View
RealityExploration
FutureValuesAction
Knowledge
World View Actions
Share a story about an encounter with a
acquaintance or colleague where your
world view was challenged or shifted.
Building a Community of Practice and Increasing
Capacity
THEORY U: LEVELS OF LISTENING AND SPEAKING “
Presencing” is bringing into presence, and into the present, your highest potential and the future that is seeking to emerge. Your highest future
possibility is related to your own highest intention — it’s being an instrument of life itself, to accomplish, in a sense, what life wishes for me
to accomplish.
Animals in the Room• Who are they?• Why are they there?• What’s their purpose?• Are they contagious?• Are they in every room?• Living room or bathroom?• Why can’t we get rid of them or at least talk
about them?
Elephant in the Room
Snakes in the Grass
Sacred Cows
• DIVERGENCE – EMERGENCE - CONVERGENCE • THE CHAORDIC STEPPING STONES • WORLD CAFÉ• PEER SPIRIT CIRCLE PROCESS• OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY• DESIGN PROCESS
Peer Spirit Circle Process
The Components of the Circle• Intention • Welcome Start-point • Center and Check-in/Greeting • Agreements • Three Principles and Three Practices • Guardian of process • Check-out and Farewell
4 Fold Practice – The Art of Self Care
How Do I Engage and What Does Resilience Look Like?
• Create Safe Space Program• Home For Good Project• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudP5KioSug• Video you saw today:
https://youtu.be/iasZyYXCrXY• Royalty:
https://youtu.be/0b3Z_ewfnnE• Spoken word from my student speaking at Harvard in 2
weeks. This is a rough draft and the link will chane when the corrections are made.https://youtu.be/8sLyrHe1UvA
Questions and Possible Answers
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