Day Three

Theme: Connections, Convergence and Meaning Making

 

 

 

Proposed Design

 

7:30 AM Breakfast Buffet

 

8:00 AM  Opening Ritual:  To be consistent with opening rituals through CS VIII, likely to include some form of body awareness, silence, poetry?

 

8:15 AM World Café Opening/Set Up: Alain Gauthier (Deborah to Introduce)

 

8:30 AM  World Café: 3/20 minute rounds

The entire design team will meet at the close of day 2 to identify the framing questions based on the work that has emerged in days 1 and 2.

 

Food for thought: What if you either moved the World Cafe to or did an additional World Cafe on the beginning of Day 2?  This would give you a nice pre/post framing of these same questions, highlighting the learning that folks walk away with. I think it would also nicely complement the Open Space on Day 2, because it would give people an opportunity to develop some shared language before diving into the Open Space sessions. --Eugene Eric Kim

 

This raises some interesting questions for us around bringing the framing questions that we elicit and post on Day One through Open Space and into the Meaning Making in in the World Cafe and also around the need to pay attention to shared language.  We don't think that doing a mini world cafe earlier would necessarily accomplish these goals but the framing questions/gallery wall exercise on day one will serve to create the thruline in meaning-making.  Shared language will be addressed in our learning intentions on day one, however we might what to think about that some more. --The Design Team - 3-22-7 Call.

 

FRAMING QUESTIONS:

Download the most recent (3/21/7 - 4:30pm) iteration of questions and notes from Alain FinalNotesAlain.pdf or view and contribute to them below:

 

Alain's Notes and Proposed Questions

Revised Notes from Alain – for World Café on Day 3

 

On our Thursday call, we should schedule a time on April 12th evening for

the design team to review/refine the World Cafe questions on the basis of the

experience of the first two days.

In proposing an initial wording for each question (version 1), my intention

was to help participants move from understanding to individual commitment

to contribution to the field. We may prefer to stay in the inquiry mode and

based on suggestions from Karma, Teresa, Tom Hurley of The World Café

Foundation, and Deborah, here are three alternate versions for the three

questions, for your consideration:

 

(optional words in parentheses)

Version 1

• Rounds 1 and 2: What has changed in the last two days in your

understanding of collective leadership (development)?

• Round 3: How do you see yourself incorporating principles and/or

practices of collective leadership (development) in your work in the next

few months?

• Large group sharing: How might I/we contribute practically to the

development of (the) collective leadership (field)?

 

Version 2

• Rounds 1 and 2: What did you find of value about the concepts/principles

of collective leadership?

• Round 3: What questions do you still have about collective leadership?

How can those questions be addressed?

• Large group sharing: same as Round 3

 

Version 3

• Rounds 1 and 2: What have you heard or learned here that will influence

your understanding or approach to leadership (development)?

• Round 3: What are the questions about collective leadership that you

most want to explore further, either in your own organization/practice or

in the Leadership Learning Community?

• Large group sharing: same as Round 3

 

Version 4

• Rounds 1 and 2: Has your thinking about leadership development shifted

in any way through our exploration of the collective nature of leadership?

• Round 3: Are there new ideas or approaches you would like to

incorporate in your leadership development work as a result of our

learning?

• Large group sharing: How might I/we contribute practically to supporting

leadership development approaches that cultivate collective behaviors

and action?

In addition to the gallery walk and the large group sharing, we may want to

consider enriching the harvest by providing everyone with a 5” x 8” index

card on which to write the key question(s) they want to explore further.

 

 

The following is the first iteration of questions and notes.

- WHY? What do we believe is accomplished by collective leadership behaviors, practice and action? What from our experiences supports our beliefs about the impact of leadership that is collective?

- WHAT? What is the collective nature of leadership and what does it look like in action?

- HOW? What are we learning about how leadership is collective?

- WHEN? When is collective leadership the most effective way to achieve our desired goals?

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 To energize participants - have framing questions that will hold the many buckets of questions that we want participants to bring/initiate and share.

Have the big framing questions and have this visible on Grafitti Wall - and then post other questions that these big framing questions elicits. Important to get folks to bring their own questions. 

 

Alain - these big framing questions feel optimum.

Karma - how - from these questions and others - do we capture the learning?

Deborah - a simple framework maybe more "user friendly" and have documentation happen easier and better.

 

- Tweak language - of headline questions.

 

Questions for World Cafe:

 - Based on last 2 days, how do you see yourself incorporating collective leadership in your work. Question needs to be personal....the connection to people's work is critical - the SO WHAT is very very important. From all this - is/will something going to change in your thinking and practice of collective leadership?

- What in your experience here is causing you to change in how you will do your leadership work moving forward?

- Personal integration and create some synergy would be a great by-product.

- PROCESS: Alain suggests maybe doing two rounds working with questions above; after inquiry go to action mode - talk about commitment to integrate lessons learned. Then mobilization of whole group = to stimulate each other - engage each other to honor lessons learned. Move conversation to a deeper level of commitment.  Translation into something specific and concrete when folks go back to their respective communities.

- What might need to change in field and how can we be the custodians of some greater change?

 

9:30 AM Gallery Walk of Table Top Drawings/Evaluation Sticky Walls

(We will post sticky walls with each of the days theme on them and ask participants to put up comments through CS about what in our design is supporting our success in that theme and what needs to change.)

 

9:45 AM Large Group Meaning Making

• Facilitated Debriefing Questions (See Above World Cafe)

 

10:30 AM    BREAK  

 

11:00 AM Collective Evaluation Process (Teri and Claire co-facilitate?)

• Small group process of sticky wall and feedback assignment

• What two to three things have you learned about what does or could help a community to connect and learn on a deep level OR what three things is important for the CSIX Design Team to know about what they can do to help the commuinty connect / learn

 

11:30 AM  Closing Circle

• Still working on this, may use imagery exercise

SOME IDEAS:

Karma - create a collective story - building story off of each other - "collective improv"

Deborah - Check with Day One folks - possibility of bookends.

 

Karma - Here is one proposal for the closing circle - I will keep working.

 

My thought is that we want to collectively create something that reflects what has meant most to each person about participating in this learning experience. 

 

Creating a Community Poem

 

At the end of the evaluation section, people will be in small groups at their tables.  As we prepare for the close, the facilitator would ring a bell for us to sit in silence for a minute - just to feel the collective energy.  Then each person would be given 5-7 minutes to write a short poem that reflects the feeling that they are leaving with - using the images and metaphors that relate to the experience they have just shared with the entire community over the previous two days.

 

The next step takes 15-20 minutes. Each person reads his/her poem to the table and identifies his/her favorite line.  The group at the table then creates a group poem using each person's favorite line.  Their work is to identify what order the lines should be in to best reflect the group experience.

 

We then move to being in a circle of the whole community- each group standing together in the order of the lines of their poem.  We go around the circle with each person reading their line of the group poem to the whole community.  There is a short pause between each poem.

 

We could end with another short silence and then the facilitiators wish everyone good journeys.

 

If this seems too complicated, an alternative would be to ask each person to journal their reflections (would have to be careful to frame this as a different reflection than the evaluation questions) and then to write one line that would capture their feelings about the community and the learning experience.  Again, the invitation would be to write a line using imagery and metaphors to capture what they are carrying away.

 

We would then create a community poem by moving to a circle of the whole community and having everyone read his/her line to the whole community as we go around the circle.

 

Thought from Bella - Perhaps, we might want to ask Jennie so do something (in addition to the above) with the circle to close the day - she has a wonderful sense of fun and playfulness which would be a nice way to send folks off!

 

 

 

12:15 PM    Lunch