Compassionate Collaboration 🤝
Thoughts on team-work, governance and prosocial collaboration
Compassionate Collaboration 🤝
Compassionate Communication: speaking and listening nakedly with our whole being, connecting with what’s alive in ourselves and each other in compassionate ways.
Observations (not evaluations) — When I/you see/hear/remember/imagine…
Feelings (not thoughts) — I/you feel …
Needs — because I/you need/value …
Requests (not demands) — would you be willing t
Deep listening and Awareness-based Systems Change
An open mind is the capacity to suspend old habits of judgment—to see with fresh eyes (remove the Voice of Judgment)
An open heart is the capacity to empathize and to look at a situation through the eyes of somebody else (remove the Voice of Cynisism)
An open will is the capacity to “let go” of the old and “let come” the new (remove the Voice of Fear)
Theory U
“All governance involves power: more powerful actors receive more favourable outcomes than less powerful ones; equality and fairness are rare” (Morrison et al, 2019; p.2).