Lionsberg - Meta Project Meeting 2022.07.2022
12 week series starting January
- Presenting out patterns and ideas
- Collecting corrective feedback
- incorporating and sending back out
- Wendy E - adding in text and distributed feedback / stories / voices....
- Paragraph or page anyone wants to feed in...
- Being open to not getting it right...
- Wendy M - exclamation point on Wendy E's offer...
- Let's get something out over the holidays - to capture what this year has been like...
- Then a during version...
- Then maybe a post version...
Story Session and or survey like tool
- Pre assessment
- During the sprint
- Post assessment
- Can be done asynchronously
Story / Narrative Process
- Wendy M and Wendy E - First pass at story process...
- Take first pass
- Present out to Jordan++
- Then distribute...
- Bill, Wendy, Michael, Jordan Wendy...
Special Session on Flow
- Moving from state of individual performance, to group performance...
- Much from Stephen Cottler's work... merging 3 or 4 TED talks, resummarizing
- sleeping well
- eating well
- water
- excercise
- setting stage for flow via conditions,
- Primarily about being FULLY PRESENT
- Deeply present. deeply listening. putting our full focus on something.
- Flow is self-perpetuating because it brings about all 5 neuro chemicals in the brain that are pleasure motivated...
- Jason Schulist - referenced key resource John Lenhart https://www.myflowcess.com that we can connect Wendy M with
- Getting out of our own way, inner critic dies, sympathetic nervous system resets...
- sense of freedom...
- Triggers - things that are the preconditions for flow...
- Checking agendas and egos at the door
- close listening
- familiarity and connection
- open comms
- shared goals and risks
- yes and - staying out of judgment
- play
- autonomy and sense of control - choice about where we are going next
- The constant sense of feedback...
- I know I am on the right track...
- Immediate feedback - critical component to staying in the now and being motivated...
- giving each other appreciation, correction,
- Religion, spirituality, and flow are very similar
- which is good - so we can approach challenges from mulitple directions, still using processes that can be described and named...
- Jason - John Lenhart -
- held a series of conferences to explore building skill, generativity, how you facilitate flourishing using uniqueness...
- John Lenhard work on uniqueness, how that drives the way different people flow, different patterns of flow, patterns of flow disruption...
- How we push buttons that enable flow, instead of disrupt flow...
- Quite often checking ego at door is the difficult part...
- Getting used to getting into a co-regulated space
- if you can do that regularly and quickly...
- Russ Ackoff? Dissolving problems - (dis)(solving) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_L._Ackoff
- There is a co-regulation - when you have looked after your self well enough, you can start to look at how to get in flow iwth others...
- Pre-work can't be skipped...
- Difficult with strangers - when somebody new comes in, doesn't have the background...
- Clean Language
- You have to be willing to spend the time getting ready to co-regulate...
- happens magically sometimes...
- and how do we plan and prepare...
- can find "fake Flow" - drugs, alcohol...
- vs. healthy experience that can be deliberately droopped into
The Practice
- we will probably find there is a series of things we can do at the beginning of meetings
- prepare for the flow state
- Ritual / Ceremony
- Prepare for what we will experiene together
- co-regulation
- specific methods and techniques to elicit
- The value of cotnribution to other groups and people.
- ask other groups - what is it you need?
- They may not know...
- see what is emerging...
- one thing is what is emerges in our group
- and - what emerges if we try to bring outside... through deep listening and discernment
- and bring even more intentionally into the world...
- what we are practically doing... and trying to do...
- we can create that value by articulating it...
- here has been our experience
- here is what it looks like...
- This is why, what, how we are doing - bringing it to a level we can relate to, build from...
- Coming together in more concrete ways as we engage, and as we articulate / document / don't just leave in the ephemeral realm
- write, express, share, Progressively articulate and realize...
- Flow - is positive as a langauge... things that are positive, and blanced, dynamic approach to how we can work together as a group, find your own rhythm, balance your own boundaries so you don't do too much or too little...
- like it because it is so positive...
- Words / pictures / images of the positive side of (it)
- A blade of grass in the dessert...
- the kind of hope and positivity that goes to the deepest level...
- Active Hope ...
- Looking at reality... facing it... what can we do now...
- Going to the depths, really understanding in its deepest structure and identity..
- Let's frame in positive way - always reaching to the positive place...
- When you have a slightly lower mood state... because of uncertainty... makes you more alive to your senses...
- positive mindset
- What is possible is best question to ask...
- Senses more alive - take in more of environment and be present to it...
- Deep value in the uncertainty / the unknown...
- have to be that tiny bit out of control, all the time...
- Can feel negative potntially -
- but make that state of slight disarray your normal state - just enough disarray...
- One of preconditions of flow is NOT KNOWING
- have to get comfortable with being UNCOMFORTABLE
- at just level of difficulty to survive that...
- Game of being uncomfortable with uncretainty...
- Wendy E - Book recommendation - Beau Lotto - Deviate
Morgan Ideas
- Colocation - at least periodically
- Live colalboration
- Asynchronous reporting and communications - tech stack to faciliate
- Iterative lanning cycles
- Hierarchical multi-variate optimization
- to tunr into one another and objectives
- open project roles that play to individual strengths
- love born and consensus driven objective
- shared positive experiences
- genuine curiosity and relationships
- grounding shared vibration and intention
- co-creative expression and feedback...
Jason
- goal, method, practice, coach + challenge you didn't think you could do but could
- requires coach to move you beyond your own capabilities...
- which leads to dopamine and flow
- in toyota kata is a version of that methodology
- Goal, challenge, set of iterative experiments, use a method, practice the method, and have a coach that allows you to do that...
- almost everything is a skill - from hope, faith, positivity...
- as opposed to innate characteristics or reaction
- which you can change...
- Create psychological safety in a system...
- see this slide on how to build a skill -
Wendy
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How we can add to patterns previously discovered...
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Carol Dweck - Groth Mindset
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Character Strengths -
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Actionable values... sense of control...
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These conversations are finally the chance to merge these insights.. .into something technological and structural that can support people towards the emerge of their best selves...
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Avert the crisis - about being curious about something coming towards me - listening with deep curiosoity...
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Space of curiosity and wonder...
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being comfortable with the unknown...
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LEARNING EDGE - challenged just enough but not overwhelemed...
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see this diagram on the learning edge:
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Heping each person ask their own learning edge - what they want to learn and how quickly - challenged by what is interesting each indivdiual...
Bill
- Curiosity and Wonder
- Flow requires some kind of common language, relationship, trust..
- Little children - may not have much equipment in area of language... but can still get in flow state...
- Make eye contact, show interest, listen carefully, say one word about an object, say again and again...
- Begin to see, understand,
- So amazing to watch a child learn, and get drawn into their flow state of intensity, hunger, curiosity...
- Listening carefully, attentive to what is happening...
- Returning to a CHILD LIKE WONDER AND CURIOSITY...
- creates a safe state...
- Team painting - can add on, but can't chainge it completely
- like the yes and improv exercise...
- like improve - it is "our" painting...
Resource - Toyota Kata Practice Guide - Mike Rother Resource - The Talent Code - Coyle Resource - Talent is Overrated - Colvin
Erik
- Being able to reflect back and precisely name / meet / recognize a person's pain...
- What is one's deepest fear, blockage, fear, -
Wendy
- something real important about physical things with physical people that doesn't need the words...
- Do as many physical things as possible...
Michael
- resonated with metaphor of duelpatining - and
- struck by - the fact thatthere are so many of us... and individuals engaged in different things...
- very hard to duel paint in this world of all of us trying to do good...
- what are the ways we put our separate brushes to the same canvas...
- Big tech, governments, political parties defencding things the way things are -
- Dont have the standards, the shared economic agreements..
Flow
- feels good
- we want more
- when we create the conditions
- people want more
- and seek it out in other places...
Group Flow
What We Are Each Pursuing Anyway
- I will continue pursuing this anyway...
- the more I can codify and sense into it with the group...