REFLECTING ON WHAT IS GOING ON. So Far From Home. Join us. Starting February 3. 6:00 pm Arizona time.
ToP facilitators, with the focused conversation method in hand, are well known for saying, “Let’s take a couple of minutes to step back and reflect on what just happened.” We inject these small reflections into the end of a Consensus Workshop, the end of a day, end of a session, end of a year. We know from experience that something significant can happen in a group in the midst of such reflection. We even try it on ourselves, reflecting on our own experience at the end of a course, at the end of a facilitation, at the end of a day.
Mostly, these conversations are QUICK, shoehorned in to the close of a session, NARROWLY FOCUSED on the event or encounter just completed, with a VERY SPECIFIC INTENT, how do we refocus to finish on time and on task. They concentrate, in the main on what we call our RATIONAL AIM, what we have committed to accomplish or decide about.
Margaret Wheatley’s book, So Far From Home, is an invitation to a different kind of conversation. She demonstrates a different sort of reflection — slower, deeper, more vulnerable, focused on what really seems to be shifting, changing, emerging in our work, in our world, in ourselves, and in those we serve. What are you noticing these days? What human struggles are forming the backdrop of your life and work with people? What is really going on? How are you responding?
Gordon Harper, Helen Wythe and I are hosting an online exploration of So Far From Home starting in February.
As a ToP Community of Practice this year, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Technology of Participation network. This seems an appropriate time for some reflection and serious conversation on our work and on our lives.
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Jim Wiegel